Hotel Castelmar Campeche
Calle 61 nr 2, between calle 8 and 10 Campeche, Yucatan Peninsula, 24000, Mexico
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Hijack?
At Chetumal I booked my seat on the only bus to Campeche of the day, and had a two hour wait for it to arrive. A small price to pay for getting out of Belize. I took the opportunity to check my emails and stock on some much needed food for the 6 hour bus journey.
The bus was a first class Ado bus and was really comfortable and relaxing, other …
Campeche and the Ruins of Edzna
We caught a local bus out to the coastal city of Campeche, on the Gulf coast (pop. 225,000). The weather was cloudy, with a breeze off the ocean, so we had cooler weather than in Merida--about +21C. Campeche was the first place in Mexico that the Spanish began exploring. Francisco Hernandes de Cordoba landed here in 1517 to get fresh water, and was …
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A jewel in the jungle
... pyramids, going in and out of rooms and tombs. By midday or so we were getting hungry, but there is no food available in the site and you can't take it in with you so we retraced our way back to the entrance and went outside to find a suitable food stall. I had a tamale and the others had tacos. We sat and chatted with a young Mexican who is currently studying his masters degree (in film and TV production) in the US and was here visiting his ...
Colonial Perfection
... on it. This place really is beautiful. The houses are all multicoloured and the streets are narrowed and cobbled. A real old colonial feel about it.
Although we weren't going to be doing much celebrating today, we did think we would get a bottle of wine (or something like that) to drink on the roof top that evening. As today Simon and I have been together for 7 years. Wow... Its gone so quickly! So we walked around trying to find a shop. ...
Campeche - The Cadiz of Mexico
... in travel and Campeche was one of those times.
I don't know whether it was just the excitement of getting to the Caribbean Coast or plain determination but I did not mind the long overnight bus ride which for me means a minimum of sleep and a maximum of watching Barbara sleep.
It also gave me lots of opportunity to observe the skills of the bus drivers in guiding the behemoth of a bus along the narrow roads and exercising their ...



