Debliz Campeche Hotel

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After a long bus ride and a successful border crossing (we were 1o days over our visa so expecting a hefty fine but seem to have got away scott free) we arrive in Belize city and immediately jump on a ferry to Caye Caulkner. We decide to stay at the Ignacio cabins which are sheds on stilts a good ten minute walk from anywhere and 20 minutes from anywhere good but kind of calm and quiet.<br><br>We spend our first days exploring ...

... design.<br><br>Going from the simple life of the Mormons to the excesses of commercialism we were quite impressed by the huge &#8220;Mega&#8221; store also located not far from the &#8220;centro historico&#8221;. Barb and I had fun playing a little game of &#8220;what would it cost if we lived here&#8221;. The selection was remarkable but then they do have to compete with the suburban megastores. The prices seemed also low except for imported items.<br><br>This ...

... when someone told us that there are only three families who permanently live in the centro historico. That would have left it to various businesses, hotels and non-residential use buildings, which would have explained the eerie lack of people on this Sunday morning.<br><br>On my search for a coffee and just to get my bearings I directed myself towards the Gulf of Mexico and the beautiful malecon where later we eventually took enough photos to write a separate blog ...

We´re now on the Yucatan peninsula, a flat, jungle covered area. Xpujil is a one street town from which it is easiest to visit the remote ruins at Calakmul (although they are still 150 km from the town). We stayed in a "rustic" cabaña - bed, mosquito net, door, but cheap. Got up at 5am to go to the ruins with a taxi, arrived there at 8 (in the rain!) and started our visit. Completely different to the previous ruins, the temples are set in ...

Day 15 - On the road again to the ocean and UNESCO cultural village of Campeche! An early start, bakery stop (our new found eat of normally stale but cheap fodder!) and not so posh ADO bus saw us back on the road again, this time heading to a small UNESCO cultural heritage town called Campeche on the Gulf of Mexico. The landscape changed pretty dramatically from this point on and we could see why the bus journeys take an eighth of the latter, the roads were flat and straight and no ...

... and care for them. There are many stories of US/Canadian aides coming with the guest and being asked to leave because the care they provided was awful. The fellow on his way to Costa Rica has asked his Isla Aguada aide to come with him and start the program there. What a place. It is also not a charity but a serious money making business. No donations other than time and expertise are asked for or accepted. It may be a business but it is also an effort ...

A little wet i write to you from Campeche! Yesterday we decided to utilise the hostels bikes. As the hostel owned no spanner to raise the saddles we4 looked a little like we were on clowns bikes. The town has a cycle way/path/runway along the sea front (only 1.8k) so we thought we would start there.However first we have to deliver our launder bag. Half in my lap and half in my hand i wobble one handed along with a pedal that feels like it may fall off at ...

... we also struggled to find somewhere for coffee....which seemed to be an ongoing theme in Mexico....eventually we found a place and were handed a jar of nescafe and cups of hot water. Don't they grow coffee in Mexico? Go figure! There was a bloody cool tree there though! Since we didn't end up spending much time here, we decided to head straight to ...

From Campeche we decided to head into the depths of the jungle to see a few more Mayan cities. Ended up staying in a dive of a town but convenient for the sites. Hired a taxi for the day and headed 200km south towards the Guatemalan border to see Calakmul. Due to it´s remoteness and difficulty in getting there, we had the city to ourselves. We clambered around the ruins ...