Ibis Merida Centro

... 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 Cittā del Messico, non sapendo dove andare ci siamo diretti verso la costa sul Golfo. Progreso č una cittadina assolutamente insignificante, non ha particolari attrattive turistiche, il mare sul golfo č 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!

... po' piu' caro degli altri, ma non c'e' paragone. La struttura e' bellissima, inizio del '900, le camere sono veramente chic con mobili d'epoca, letto enorme e comodissimo, aria condizionata, ventilatore, soffitti alti, tv lcd.
Anche se solo per una notte...
Il caldo e' tale che passiamo da un negozio all'altro per approfittare dei ventilatori, magari tra ...

... that was pretty neat.

So today Edwin called us a cab at 7:20 in the morning so we could make our journey to the bus station. There, we bought our tickets to ride through la Ruta Puuc (The Puuc Route). Itīs basically a trail of different ruins. The bus stops at the first four sites for 30 minutes and the last one for 2 hours because it is much larger and more spectacular. Lauren, me, and two other Americans were the only ones on the bus ...

... be very popular with tourists. People every were. And they were a slightly bit different from Uxmal in design. They have this cool stadium thing were they played ball games and had to through the ball through this carved rock ring up high. Apparently at some stage the team that lost may have had there heads decapitated. We arrived ...

... a little too much! Anyway, the next day (Sunday) was really awesome. We booked a little tour for 12 bucks that would take us to Palenque, Misol-ha, and Agua Azul. We were most amped about the ruins at Palenque and not even really sure what to expect out of the other destinations, though our books alluded to them being pretty sweet. We spent 4 hours in the morning at Palenque. Oh, man, it was baller. We will be putting the ...

... arrives. We check out of our Cancun hotel. It's been two and a half weeks since we arrived and we still stagger under the heat and humidity, no better adapted to the climate then when we arrived. In pidgin spanglish charade we each request a taxi, Tim to the airport, I to the bus station. In a petrified stupor I kiss my husband goodbye and load him into his cab. In my mounting panic my husband is transmogrified. It feels more like I am loading my own ...

... of a crew together. Also there were lots of new people we met in Merida, i found the hostel there to be very social and friendsly and would rate it as the best hostel ive stayed in. After 3 days everyone left and i was left on my own with 4 very unfriendly french guys at which point i decided it was time to leave mexico and get back on track in terms of distance covered.

... tourists and transients. A lot of crazy-driving vechicles and pollution. Our friend David was struck by a bus/van while walking down the narrow sidewalk (a bruised and swollen elbow, but he is okay). It is also a very festive city - each night of the week there is some type of dance/music event in at least one of the many parks in the city. Our hostal represented Merida well: festive and big. We counted beds and ...