Celestun, Yucatan, originally uploaded by peggydaly. a day trip from Merida

I forgot to mention my trip to the ruins of Uxmal.  I did this easily from Merida, catching the 8am bus from the 2nd class bus terminal directly to the ruins.  I considered taking what’s called the “Ruta Puuc” bus, which is a good deal.  For arou

The whole Yucatan was boiling so I grabbed a fairly inexpensive room ($24) with a/c at Santa Lucia Hostal.  There is only one or two private rooms and the rest are dorms.  Young Rafael runs the place almost completely solo and is very helpful.  When I

Not sure I’ll make it thru a second day here.  Very pretty colonial town but rather boring – so anticipation for the nightlife doesn’t really get one thru the miserable, oppressively hot afternoons.  I got in around 2:30 yesterday and had to hide

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Ahh, the beach is just beautiful. The sand is so… uhm… Sandy… and the ocean is… so… uhm… calm… yeh, must be ...

Okay, so after yesterday´s post was some laying about.  I tried to find the starting point of the bus tour but failed.  Either not the ...

So, it´s clearly siesta time again.  I´m not ready for a nap, but the air con in this internet spot will do the trick.  After yesterday´s ...

Well, here I am safely in Merida in the Yucatan state of Mexico. Funny considering a month and a half ago I could not ...

Once we bid farewell to Jazzy-Fizzle we started driving west to Valladolid, where we spent one night in a hotel.  We figured out that we ...

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