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By TicoTime
December 4th 2009

Campeche - Land of the Missing Toilet Seats North America » Mexico » Campeche » Campeche

Street-side View

Okay, this entry is a couple days late but we've been really busy and haven't had a decent Internet hookup until today. We left Merida on Monday because that's the day that most shops and major public buildings close to the public. So though it dashed our hopes of seeing the archaeology museum and having some kind of urban adventure, we were eager to push for the coast and some highly anticipated beach time. On the way we went through another military checkpoint as we crossed state lines, but the soldiers were really just going through the motions so I have [View Full Entry]

By ricknelson
May 2nd 2009

Campeche North America » Mexico » Campeche » Campeche

Campeche Centro Historico

May 1, Friday Another pack the bike event, this time with lots of extra clothes aboard, and we headed north from Playa del Carmen looking for the cut-off road to the west so we could miss the snarl and mess of Cancun. After a short back and forth, we found the proper road, which looked originally like an entrance to an amusement park. This short cut began as a brand new blacktop road, and we whizzed along with almost no traffic. When we reached about 5 kilometers from the next main highway, the construction vehicles showed up, then the road turned [View Full Entry]

By LunaSea
February 20th 2009

Raymondo and Marseea's 2009 Mexico Trip North America » Mexico » Campeche

Cathedral in Campeche

February 16th, we left beautiful Isla Aguada and moved on to the city of Campeche. We would have liked to have stayed at Isla Aguada a couple more days but a 17 rig Fantasy caravan had rolled in. Since we all are following Mexico 180 and there are only a few campgrounds, we wanted to stay ahead of them. Again, we are glad we are not traveling with a group like that. One of the caravaners told me that many in the group had gotten upset with two rigs because the drivers had gotten lost. The rest of the group was [View Full Entry]

By LunaSea
February 16th 2009

Raymondo and Marcia's 2009 Mexico Trip North America » Mexico » Campeche

Freedom Shores Hotel Office

Day after Valentine’s Day, we’ve just begun our third week in Mexico. We are now at our first planned destination - the beautiful white sand beaches of Isla Aguada. Surely this is heaven on earth. We have a beachfront site about thirty feet from the water. The water has a light blue green color probably due to the white sands beneath and the shallowness of its depth. Dolphins are jumping and playing further out. Water temp is reported to be about 80 degrees. When we arrived on Friday the beach was deserted. Today, many local families are enjoying playing at the [View Full Entry]

By LunaSea
February 15th 2009

Raymondo and Marseea's Mexico Trip North America » Mexico » Campeche

Kiko

9 - 11 Feb (Sorry this is out of date but did not get a chance to download corresponding photos) We have moved on to the town of Catamaco on the shores of a lake of the same name. Both are named for a local fisherman, Juan Catamaco who had a vision of the Virgin Mary at a spot by the lake about a hundred years ago. The RV park, identified as Hotel Tepetepan in Church’s Camping Guide, is right in town and is the most beautiful park we have stayed in thus far. It is owned by an American and [View Full Entry]

By Dawn and Steve
February 12th 2009

Merida & Chichen Itza North America » Mexico » Campeche

Chichen Itza

Lots of people don´t come today to Chichen Itza......some because they don´t feel well, but many because they love Merida so much that they want to stay there and shop. It is a big modern (sort-of) city with lots of Spanish Colonial architechture. It has traffic almost as bad as Mexico City, and the noise and crowds of people on the streets is hard for me to manage. Still, our new friends go with us out to get sherbert in local fruit flavours, and we have some fun people watching and shopping. Steve and I buy outfits in the traditional Mayan [View Full Entry]

By Dawn and Steve
February 11th 2009

Palenque to Uxmal North America » Mexico » Campeche

Army Checkpoint

Another really long day of driving. We head north through the state of Campeche to the coast on the Gulf of Mexico. They grow sugarcane here, and we see trucks full of it along the way. We stop for a mid-morning break at a little place where a guy was busy in the back outside the building cutting up bags of oranges for fresh juice. He had two cages holding green parrots in the same space, but not close to the juice (nothing beats fresh orange juice - so much sweeter than our oranges too). Inside, ladies are busy making fresh [View Full Entry]

By B and L
January 27th 2009

Xpujil and Calakmul North America » Mexico » Campeche » Xpujil

Us on Calakmul structure

One of the sites that we were most excited to see was Calakmul. This is a Mayan city that rivaled Guatamala's Tikal back in the day, that had some of the tallest pyramids in this area. The ruins are now in the middle of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve - a giant section of fairly undeveloped rainforest bordering on Guatamala. This means that, unlike most other ruin sites in Mexico, it is difficult to reach without taking an expensive tour from a nearby city; buses don't really go there. Also, since 'nearby' cities are about 6 hours away, tour groups probably don't [View Full Entry]

By B and L
January 10th 2009

Campeche North America » Mexico » Campeche » Campeche

Street at dusk

Campeche is the first stop on the Yucutan Peninsula part of our trip. It was a 17h bus ride from Mexico City to here, so we were grateful to find that our hostel (the Monkey Hostel) is quite friendly, with a rooftop terrace overlooking the main square and cathedral. The city´s waterfront is a long paved bicycle path, with not much else going on. In the evening at around 5, all the clothing and jewelery shops open near our hostel, and there is a frenzy of shopping and walking around until about 9:30, when things close again. Clothing prices are about [View Full Entry]

By ArleneandBenj
November 30th 2008

CAMPECHE: A Thoroughly Civilised Life North America » Mexico » Campeche » Campeche

Bang

Well prepared for the rough and tumble of slugging the tourist routes through South and Central America, we were remarking on just how relaxed we were getting as travellers - arriving fresh off the bus to a new city, with no map, no idea of where to stay, or even which direction the central district was. And it looked like it was about to bite us in the backside. Arriving at the bus terminal, we asked a departing tourist (Italian) about accommodation. Apparently it was all full as there was a large concert on. Rather than get an overnight bus out [View Full Entry]

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