Hotel Caribe Merida
Calle 59, 500 Rincon Parque Hidalgo Merida, Yucatan Peninsula, 97000, Mexico
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Merida, the white city
Early flight from Guadalajara to Mexico City (where one of our luggage got lost) and from there to Merida (where we found out it about that and that it would eventually return to us, later on). Then at the hotel our reservation wasn't taken correctly, so we had no room; and after much talking, trying to make understand the manager that his staff …
Bursting with art and culture
I rolled into Merida at 5AM yesterday morning on the first class night bus from Palenque. A German couple that I met on the bus and I knocked on a few hotel doors near the Parque Central, but as feared, the night watchman on duty in each of these places was not capable of showing us rooms or of checking us in. His save face answer in each case was …
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Chichen Itza To Meridia
... Marble tiled interiors, arched doorways, and exterior columns. They are all built along one street, the Paseo Montejo. We walked this street, as the buildings still exist, and were really impressed with the size of them. Most of them are owned or leased by banks or other corporations, but they have been restored true to the style of the day. Of course all this was built on the backs of the poor Yucatans, who laboured long and hard for ...
Old Again
... it wasn't all to no avail.
The hostel had the best breakfast of anywhere we stayed in our entire trip, and an eclectic bunch of staff - including the owner - who created a hippie / alternative vibe in a huge, historical building off the main plaza. Along with stories of pirate ghosts - or is that ghost pirates - it made for an interesting stay. ...
A poor excuse for a man
... also made it a peaceful place. Whether it was so back in 900AD, I don't know, but I certainly could imagine the Mayans ambling through the woods and watching the children scamper across the stretches of grass, some of which had monolithic purpose-built ball courts as the central focus.
As I typed out this last paragraph, it prompted me to look up a photograph I took at a museum in Santiago. It was plaque describing the ball games played by the Mayans, and probably ...



