On our way from Merida to Tulum we stopped off at the Mayan ruins at Coba, famous for the carved stelae depicting events or stories from the Mayan period. The ruins are still being excavated, and feel more ‘Indiana Jones’ than some of the other sites we visited, being surrounded and overgrown with jungle: Here you…
Tag: Yucatan
Friday 24th June – Monday 27th June: Fun with friends in Merida
One of the main reasons for coming to this part of the world was to catch up with our friends Samantha and Victor who moved here from Barcelona 18 months previously. They were kind enough to put us up in their home in Merida and to show us the local sights (and local food!). After…
Friday 24th June: Ik-kil Cenote
Early on Friday morning we took a short taxi ride from our hotel to the nearby Cenote Ik Kil. It was incredibly beautiful, with decent facilities – lockers, towel rental etc. We got there early, shortly after it opened, and there were only about six other people there – heavenly: Showers before getting in –…
Wednesday 22nd – Friday 24th June: Chichen Itza
The next day we were headed to the famous Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza where we would stay for two nights in a nearby hotel so we could get early access to the ruins site at 8am when they open, in order to avoid the worst of the heat and the crowds. Initially the plan…
Monday 20th-Wednesday 22nd June 2016: Cancun
There is nothing ‘organic’ about Cancun. It’s a planned city designed explicitly for tourism, with the ‘hotel zone’ along a narrow spit of white sandy beaches, and then the ‘real’ city where all the people who work in the hotel zone actually live. Instead of staying in the ‘Zona Hotelera’ – the bit lined with…
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