El Espanol Merida

... Day 4
We leave at 5:00 am Tulum! And we arrived in Merida at 10 AM, walked the streets with buildings from 18th century at calle 60. We went to the municipal market, and we bought several fruits and of course freshly made tortillas.
We leave Merida 05:00 pm and went to Santa Elena.

... down hand built wooden staircases. The last one we had to climb down a 40 foot ladder. Looking down into the hole, you couldn't even see the bottom! It was definately a bit scary.



The water was crystal blue and it was eerily quiet in these caves. There was a large tree at the top of the cave entrance, and its roots hung all the way to the water, 100 feet below!

... per Città del Messico, non sapendo dove andare ci siamo diretti verso la costa sul Golfo. Progreso è una cittadina assolutamente insignificante, non ha particolari attrattive turistiche, il mare sul golfo è scuro, niente a che vedere con la costa caraibica; un paese messicano di messicani. Abbiamo trovato un posto per dormire veramente tristanzuolo, dopo una passeggiata nella via principale abbiamo deciso che non c'era molto altro da fare e ci siamo ritirati!

... Merc was easily the highlight of the entire trip for me. Sounds a bit vain but when you're told by some complete stranger that you have a half decent voice things definately don't get much better. After that we ended the night with some party games. I could go on about how great the day was, but I don't want to take up all the space, i'm sure your kids can tell you all about it when you see them... Thanks for reading, Taz.

... Compared to the bellicose nature of American foreign policy under George Bush the Obama approach is a breath of fresh air. It is also a breath of fresh air he tried to extend to Republicans with totally negative results. It is a Nobel Peace prize awarded almost totally on expectations.

There is no doubt that as we stood on that day in Merida witnessing this historical moment of Obama’s inauguration, we were witness to the dawning of a new ...

... up with my feet on the back of the seat in front of me and my head against the window. I was awoken a few times, but not as many as during other trips and before I knew it we had arrived in Merida. We piled out of the bus, collected our belongings then headed to the taxi stand to get a taxi to the center of town. $30 pesos later we'd arrived in the zocalo, and our hostel - Hostel Zocalo - was right there. The building was beautiful and as we later learned was worth a ...

I caught a 5 hour bus from Tulum, West to the World Heritage town of Merida. About halve way through the bus ride i noticed my passport wallet was looking a little thin. Then i remembered giving it to the hostel as a deposit and in all the comotion of leaving, i ran out and right now, it sits behind the reception of a hostel, 5 hours from where I sit. Today I shall return to Tulum and as fate has decided, take a ...

... gringos with sacks! Had a bite to eat and a car came over the horizon, jumped up with best smile and thumb oot. The couple passed by and then slowly came to a halt. I ran up and asked "Sayil - por favor?" Yehhaaaa - had first hitch. A young couple called San Juan and Kairina. They wanted to make a stop before taking us to Sayil - turned out to be Kairina's mums. Met Kairina's mum, Sonia, who showed us round the ranch. It had loads of ...

What is the *******n point of mosquitos??? I left Flores in Guatemala two days ago at 6am. My original plan was to spend a day in San Ignacio in Belize then head up to Merida, this soon changed. I´d been feeling a little under the weather so I decided in the morning to try and get a bus straight through to Chetumal in Mexico, the bus was going that direction anyway. I slipped the bus driving 10 dollars and he agreed to let me travle the extra ...