Hotel Indigo Merida Hacienda

... 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.

... a rail track and pulled by a horse. At first, I thought we were going to fall off this thing! It was rickety and the horse didn't always want to listen.
We saw stopped at three different cenotes on the hour long horse ride. The pictures we took can not even begin to show you how amazing and breathtaking these caves were.

To get down into the caves, we had to ...

... 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!

Had one of the best Paddy´s days ever!!! Got up early in the morning and went to Ceynotes - these are underground freshwter limestone caves. To get there we went on local bus then bicycles that 2 people sit on the front and then a little cart thing on tracks pulled by a horse. The whole experience to get there was just crazy but once there it was so worth it, these caves are amazing and my pics unfortunately do not do them justice. The ...

... may not finish last but from the looks of it they don’t finish first either.

Going back to the assembled group of expats at the Fiesta Americana I once again ran into Bob Swafford who along with Nidia Bastaranches Hernandez, a dentist, made for a photo of a dashing couple.

Of special interest was my encounter with Reg Deneau of Windsor, Ontario Canada and Progresso, Yucatan.

I perked up when Reg mentioned that he was from ...

... a nap because my bus sleep wasn't sufficient and we could get a snack when I woke up. About 3 hours later I woke up and Marald was getting antsy (as he has a tendancy to do, especially when he's hungry) so I got myself ready quickly and we made our way to go find some lunch. We wandered to the other end of the zocalo, which unlike many other zocalo's we'd encountered, didn't have restaurants lining all sides of it. There was, however, one just opening for lunch on the ...

... to be one hell of a culture shock returning to Australia. In a way, im waiting for this trip to have some kind of grande finale, im delaying my return to Aus until that happens and im beginning to realize that life doesnt have these big dramatic endings. Sometimes things just end. There will be no epic battle, no blaze of glory, there wont be a thousand screaming fans waving me off at the airport. I just sneak ...

... 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 ...

... quickly looked around, it was boiling hot and we felt a bit awkward because they were waiting, so didn't stay long. Got back to Kairina'a and went for a much needed swim in the pool, next to the house, with her gran and sister - fab! Sonia made us tacos, cheese, salad and sausage - really tasty (glad was over the food poisoning!). We all sat around the garden trying to chat(!)and played an old Mayan game, hitting a chunk of wood ...

... night, but decided to push on. At the bus station I managed to get my hands on some pencilin and medicine for what was now a full blown chest infection. What was frustrating was that there was no buses to Tulum, so I decided to bit the bullet and get an over night bus ride to Merida on the opposite coast of Cancun. I had to wait from 4pm to 11pm for my bus, during that time I meet a local Mexican called Wilbert. My spanish can´t be that bad as ...