Gran Real Yucatan Merida
Calle 56 No 474 Por 55 Centro Merida, Yucatan Peninsula, 97000, Mexico
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... stayed here for only a couple of days. Didnt like it much. The beach looked nice (if it hadnt been overcast) but there were too many hotels and fat sunburnt tourists everywhere.
So, I got a ferry across from Cancun to Isla Mujeres. Here was much more chilled and friendly (although, just as touristy really in its way) - met some good mates in the hostel here, made use of the beautiful beach and partied a bit.
From Mujeres I went inland, and ...
The white city and the new world wonder
I wanted to leave San Cristobal originally on the 2nd of January, but the New Year's party took its toll, so it was a day of rest and on to Palenque the next day. The buses were quite full, so I took an ealier bus then Neil, Nina and Ella and we decided to meet in Palenque town that night.
The route from San Cristobal to Palenque was one of the most dangerous one's, as far as I had read, ...
Mexican Mishaps Make Amigos
... of laughs and music for our now bonded group. We all looked after one another, especially the women, one woman was traveling alone with her 10 day old baby boy, who was attached at her breast while she fed him and carried her belongings. Another woman, a medical student, was traveling on her short break from school with her 5 year old son, who was just a bright little sponge taking all of this adventure in like a champ. Another woman, a mature, ...
Mexico City and 8 months of travel
... etc ... all the later peoples that came along like the Toltecs, Aztecs, etc are all after it was built!
They all had beliefs and rituals, etc that varied ... but nobody knows why the original people built it!
There are heaps of remains / evidence of human sacrifice though ... it is a little scarey to think what it might have been like to have lived back then ...
There is clearly a bad part to Mexico City ... on the way out to Teotihuacan we passed the ...
Mexico City
... money stash and all. No problems there, except for some guitaristas who played half the way up, so there was an obligation to pay something. Some people love that stuff, but my cheap ass views it as a problem; different sort of roberry I suppose. We were famished upon arrival and figured we'd get something to eat there. We instantly got hounded by hawkers, "Guides, silver, masks..etc...etc". I kept saying, "Tacos"?, which of ...



