El Conquistador Merida

Cenotes are caves, underground swimming holes caused by meteorites hitting the earth. <br>The trip to the cenotes was almsot as cool as the cenotes themselves!<br>To get to there, we took an hour bus ride, then we got on a cart that was attached to a bicycle. We were pedalled about 30 minutes up and down hill. Then we hopped on this little rag tag cart that was pulled up ...

Siamo partiti sabato mattina da Tulum sotto una pioggia scrosciante che ci ha accompagnato per molti chilometri; volevo andare a vedere il sito di Coba, ma non era possibile, così abbiamo proseguito verso Merida. Nel primo pomeriggio il tempo è migliorato e così sono riuscita a visitare il sito di Mayapan, l'ultima capitale Maya. Un sito piccolo ma molto bello, mi sono inerpicata su un tempio (i soliti 60 gradini) per l'ultima volta.<br>Domani lasciamo la macchina e ...

... po' piu' caro degli altri, ma non c'e' paragone. La struttura e' bellissima, inizio del '900, le camere sono veramente chic con mobili d'epoca, letto enorme e comodissimo, aria condizionata, ventilatore, soffitti alti, tv lcd. <br>Anche se solo per una notte... <br>Il caldo e' tale che passiamo da un negozio all'altro per approfittare dei ventilatori, magari tra ...

Hi, Miss Kay here. Just a quick note to say we have arrived in Merida safe and sound. We had a nine hour bus journey but we did get to see the Gulf of Mexico. We have added photos to the previous entries so please check them out. This afternoon the students were able to have a bit of a boogie in their Salsa class. Check out the great photos. The students will write soon.

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... of money. It was old colonial style all with open areas and no real doors separating areas. The dorms were split men and women, but again, there were no doors separating the two, just two different sections. There was one girl sleeping in my dorm at the time of our arrival, so luckily we could check in right away. Normally check in time is after noon, but due to the lack of people traveling in the low season, we didn't have a problem. I told Marald I was going to ...

... overnight bus to Palemque for some more ruins. The end of a long Journey?? Im coming to the end of a long road. The end is near, i can feel it. I cant see it yet, but i sense its close. Im tossing up a few options right now, but the top one, is to get to Mexico City in the next week or 2, take a flight to LAX and then, I will fly home to Sydney ending a voyage of 2 years, 8 months and 12 days ... and counting. Its ...

... time. However, we go to Chichen Itza tomorrow, en route to Playa del Carmen. Travel in Mexico so far I recommend travel in Mexico by bus. Modern, fairly spacious, equipped with toilets, they are at least as good as anything you could expect to find anywhere. All terminals have been clean and modern. While we have no doubt seen the sanitised version of Mexico, I have seen nothing to ...

... t have a public bus service between them - generally it seems to be organised via your hotel, private taxi or hired car. We decided to hitch to see a couple of the sites then try get to the last and biggest one, Uxmal, and spend the night rough camping possibly - very vague plan. After boring cave tour, tried to hitch to the next site, Sayil, but all cars full of Mexicans and hunners of children - no room in the car for a couple ...

... Around lunch time we crossed the border to Belize, A warm welcome as everyone speaks English, I soon noticed after I got no response from Buenas Dias. 2 hours later I said goodbye to Felicity in Belize City and headed north to the border. Another 4 hours I was across the border, to my relief as I didn´t get an exit stamp when leaving the country 2 weeks ago. At this point my cold had got worst and I was considering staying in Chetumal for ...