Hotel Montejo Palace Merida

Cenotes are caves, underground swimming holes caused by meteorites hitting the earth. <br>The trip to the cenotes was almsot as cool as the cenotes themselves!<br>To get to there, we took an hour bus ride, then we got on a cart that was attached to a bicycle. We were pedalled about 30 minutes up and down hill. Then we hopped on this little rag tag cart that was pulled up ...

... 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!<br>

... po' andremo a vedere qualche piazza.<br>Domani finalmente prendiamo la macchina... ho gia' in mente l'itinerario, riusciamo pure a fare due giorni di mare!<br>Sono riusciti a farmi andare di traverso anche la notte nell'hotel fighissimo: la musica di un guitto che si esibiva in un locale ci ha tenuto compagnia fino all'una... mavaffanculo alle feste maya!<br><br>

... I immediately fell in love with the petit hotel with French and European taste! It has got a pool and fountain in the small cortyard surrounded by tropical plants and trees. The room is nice and clean and we both loved the five shower head jets in the shower.<br><br>For our dinner, Fredrik has already studied and picked the best restaurant serving yucatan cuisine. The problem was that we had to walk ...

... references to the rain god Chac at this site. After about 1000, when Toltec invaders took over the Yucatán peninsula and established their capital at Chichen Itza, all major construction ceased at Uxmal, and later the site was abandoned. This was our favourite site (besides Tulum, for obvious reasons) as from the highest structures you could see all the others rising up through the forest, especially the massive 35m, Pirámide del Adivino (Magician's Pyramid), the tallest ...

Spending a couple days in Mérida getting the real Mexican experience. This town has a great feel to it. Even with the high heat the many tree-covered plazas make Merida very comfortable to visit. This town is more what I expected Mexico to look like.

... the guy fell off the stage! Next day we looked round the market, admired the colonial architecture, and headed off to an art gallery. All very civilized. We hit the road the next day and headed to Cancun via Chichen Itza. The site was very impressive but mobbed with tour buses. Its the most famous of the Mayan sites, and also has the claim to fame that it was the home of the Toltecs who persuaded the Mayans that human sacrifice was the way to go!

... our way the other side of the blind bend. It just stops short of us as the horse ran off to the side! The second Cenote is a steeper climb and higher climbing platform. - got to go for it anyway! It is also clearer for snorkeling, and the water can be seen to disappear in a completely covered cave underwater into complete blackness - too freaky. One of the Mexican guys from our cart decides to jump in from the small whole in the roof - a long long way up ...

... we got off, went down the stairs into the 'hole' and found ourselves looking at this crystal clear blue blue water that is below ground in almost like a cave. We dove in and swam around for a while. Meanwhile, one of our drivers took the horse for a little walk, like you would a dog, then tied it up. The other took the cart off the tracks so that other carts could go by while we swam. We had no time limit, we got to swim for as long as liked, and ...

Long long ride from Palanque to Marida. Bus drivers seem to stop when they want too, to visit family of just get a bit of cheese. They even pick people up on the side of the road to sell us there food, kinda strange but nice. Sometimes they pick people up in the middle of no-where then drop them off in the middle of no-where!! The further you go through Mexico, the cheaper ...