Mission Merida
Calle 60 No 491, Esquina con 57 Merida, Yucatan Peninsula, 97000, Mexico
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A-mazing Uxmal
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This afternoon is Sunday and there is some music / festival thing going on in the main square (every Sunday apparently – very cool) so we wander over and have lunch. We are still not brave enough to eat "street food" and opt for a nice looking café which was overlooking the square.
This afternoon’s great adventure is to find a bus station – we came in on Oriente second class and are leaving Primo ...
Chichen Itza
... that is in most of the famous Chichen Itza photos called El Castillo, the Great Ball Court and the Temple of the Warriors along with some other smaller buildings. Chichen Itza has 2 cenotes (most cities are built around a water supply). We walked to see the Sacred cenote.
The second section of the site is the classical section - pure Maya. There is an astronomical observatory and a building known as the ...
Fun in the cenotes
Today we drove to the cenotes. A cenote is a sinkhole with exposed rocky edges containing groundwater. It is typically found in the Yucatán Peninsula and some nearby Caribbean islands. The term is derived from a word used by the low-land Yucatec Maya to refer to any location where groundwater is accessible. The ride to the cenotes is a real adventure. Temperatures again in the 100s make you jump into ...
Comida Mexicana
... br> La cuisine mexicaine est :
- Epicée, vous vous en doutez, mais heureusement la plupart du temps la sauce est à part. comme tout est très peu salé je me sers des sauces piquantes pour relever le goût des choses... quand le niveau de piquant est tolérable! Ce qui est très variable, et contrairement à ce que je pensais on ne peut pas déduire le piquant d'une sauce de sa couleur. Il faut se risquer à goûter.
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Merida
... I said to the lady ATS (the bus company), Uxmal, Ocho (for 8am), Cinco (for 5 stops) with this she laughed and knew what I meant, excellent, I am starting to pick up the Spanish lingo already (I will let you know if we actually purchased the correct bus tickets tomorrow)
In the late afternoon we made our way into the centre which is a huge square in front of a Cathedral. All around the square there were ...



