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Published: January 14th 2009
On the 12th, we took a bus from Campeche to the Uxmal ruins, which are further up the Carribean coast near the city of Merida. It was a funny little bus, which stopped at every tiny town on the way, making a relatively short route a 4h bus ride. The road was very curvy. Some bus stops seemed to be at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, which made us nervous that we would miss our stop. The bus driver played loud Mariachi music all the way, so it was a festive ride. When we got to our stop, it was indeed just a patch of dirt at the side of the road. We then walked across and down the road a bit to the ruins, which were practically deserted except for us. Nice! The ruins were really neat, and it took us about 3h to explore them. We didn´t hire a guide, so we didn´t know much about what was going on, but we can´t afford to hire one each time we visit somewhere, so maybe next time.
We miraculously caught a bus almost as soon as we got to back to the bus stop
(almost unheard of here), and listened to some techno for the ride into Merida. We walked to our hostel, checked in, and walked around a bit. Merida seems like a town in which there is a lot to do, so we will probably be here for several days.
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Cory Kowal
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Oh man, that's awesome. When you went to the magicians house did he find peso's behind your ears?