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Maggie's Esquina Casa!
We spent our first week south of the border learning spanish in a quiet colonial town called Merida. Merida is situated in the Yucatan Peninsula approximately four hours drive west of Cancun. Quiet, safe, friendly and with no ocean to distract us, it was the perfect place to dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of improving our spanish!
I must confess that we were terrified upon arriving in Merida! All the horror stories we had heard about ...
Merida con todo!! piramides y mundo maya....
... gratificante...luego de tantos años de trabajo en educacion poder compartir mis conocimientos y experiencia es algo maravilloso y sobre todo con gente tan humilde y con tanta avidez por aprender y mejorar! Y al finalizar me sorprendieron con regalos y un diploma! Impresionante!
Al dia siguiente estuve paseando por el centro de Merida, sus monumentos historicos, sus plazas, su cultura, su pueblo...hay partes super lindas, antiguas con historia, iglesias del ...
A new year in Merida
... for a while but by about 1:30 we were safely tucked up in our beds. The next day we had planned to grab a taxi to take us to Cuzamá where there are some cenotes (sinkholes) that sounded lovely. You go to a hacienda and from there you are taken by horse and cart to three different cenotes where you can swim. Only trouble was, according to the taxi we asked to take us there, it was Sunday, and New Years Day, and they were closed. Plan B then. ...
Merida
... and the condition if the carvings were very good. After Uxmal we parted ways with Patrick and started to get us to traveling without a car !! That night we also said good bye to Tamar for the time being as we were headed off to Tulum in the morning and she was heading to chappa. We hope to meet up with her later on in our trip. Next morning we were heading off to Tulum a nice 4 and 1/2 bus ...
Spicing it up in Mexico
... are propelled by a boatman using a long pole, a bit like a poor man's Venice. Some of the other boats were being used for parties, often 2 or 3 boats lashed together to make one big party venue. To get there we had to use the underground train. We got on at the main plaza and we had to put our bags through an x-ray machine before entering the station. At the end of that line we swapped to an overground train for the rest of the way, and then reversed all ...