Intercontinental Presidente 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 ...

Siamo partiti sabato mattina da Tulum sotto una pioggia scrosciante che ci ha accompagnato per molti chilometri; volevo andare a vedere il sito di Coba, ma non era possibile, così abbiamo proseguito verso Merida. Nel primo pomeriggio il tempo è migliorato e così sono riuscita a visitare il sito di Mayapan, l'ultima capitale Maya. Un sito piccolo ma molto bello, mi sono inerpicata su un tempio (i soliti 60 gradini) per l'ultima volta.<br>Domani lasciamo la macchina e ...

... 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>

Some people asked if I could tell something about Cuba other than lecturing on communism, capitalism, etc. Sure I can! ;) The city itself was very nice to walk through, the people apart from hustlers were cool too, even if their español is very difficult (even Mexicans often cannot understand it). The really historical part of the city is in Habana Vieja, which in fact looks a bit like Merida architecturally. Also nearby was the museum of art, in fact there are two but I ...

... meeting so many people learning spanish as their third or fourth language. I blame english schools but I really could have tried harder with german. I think I will try for german next. Try to feel less guilty. The first day I booked a bus ticket to Chichen Itza bought an alarm clock for the early morning and then went out into town to eat some more mexican food, it is so good but I couldn't find any of the highly recomended street food, (I want some now) I went into a restaurant ...

... to go by night and would have made for a long day on the bus. <br><br>Accommodation <br><br>My second time around in Merida I decided to stay at Casa El Jardin Hospedaje, Calle 70, between Calle 61 + 63, Tel: 9234178 email: carrydiaz@hotmail.com . It was in a good location just four blocks from Plaza Grande and four blocks from the first and second class bus ...

... bus brakes automatically locked as a safety due to lack of air pressure and we were stranded by the roadside....... We got lots of beeps, strange looks and waves from passer{s-by but it didn{t look like the bus was gunna get going again and without mobile reception the driver soon hitched a lift and prompty disappeared, not to be seen again... hahaha, well, it seemed funny at the time. Luckily, 45mins by the roadside and another bus from the same ...

... times - when I could walk faster than he was riding up the hill... you get the point. He dropped us off and the Collectivo was right there ready for us to come back to Merida. We went to the grocery store and bought some food to make at the hostel for dinner... all of $4.80 to feed us both - even with leftovers! Then we sat around and had some beers with everyone at the hostel. It was a fantastic night of learning many new languages... Spanish, French ...

... in stone were great, but must have taken so long to do back then!!Monitor lizards everywhere...the buriel plots were interesting - marked with a skull and crossbone on stone. To link these ruins together were archways that people used to follow to get from one place to another, when standing on top of the ruins you can see the archways from far away.aligned photo tag: