http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat-E1n/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Mexico , Yucatán en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:22:54 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:22:54 +0000 Mrida Yucatn a 7 de octubre del 2009. Saludos a todas y todos. Aprovecho la oportunidad de remitirles fotos de la ciudad de Valladolid Yucatn que con sus 45000 individuos e individuas es la tercer ciudad ms grande de Yucatn misma utilic como hub o base para visitar algunas ruinas de la regin. El centro de la ciudad es del mismo estilo colonial de Oaxaca Antigua o Len Nicaragua y bu http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Valladolid/blog-464014.html Cob Q.R. a 4 de octubre del 2009.Saludos.Ah les mando unas fotos de las ruinas de Ek' Balam ubicadas 45 minutos al norte de Valladolid Yucatn. El sitio es ms viejo que Chiche Itz. Como las ruinas no estn muy choteadas pues creo que sus fotos no sern muy comunes.Slo ha sido limpiado en parte dado que como buena ciudad perdida que fue la vegetacin selvtica lo cubri durante aos. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Ek-Balam/blog-463284.html Mrida Yucatn a 8 de octubre del 2009. Saludos a todos.Ah les van unas fotos del pueblo de Izamal Yucatn incluido en la lista de pueblos mgicos de la SECTUR. Tiene 15 mil almas y recibe el sobrenombre de la ciudad amarilla y realmente hace honor a su nombre en comparacin Mrida la ciudad blanca de blanca slo tiene el nombre ya que su centro histrico es de todos los colores y http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Izamal/blog-463149.html Two days before Christmas we visited inside some amazing homes in Merida's Centro Historico district on a walking tour which is organized each Wednesday at the Merida English Language Library 200 MXD. The library was organized by local expats. The collection is housed in a home left to the group by the estate of one of the founders. The tour guide was knowledgeable of the history of architectu http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Merida/blog-462929.html The last leg of my holiday took me to Mexico and Belize. From Peru I headed to Cancun for the transition from the Incan world to one of the Mayan ruins After coming from Peru Chile and various other locations which can be called nothing short of third world heading to Cancun and the ridiculously overpriced tourist world made me feel a bit out of place. I spent three days there in Cancun do http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/blog-462697.html This morning we decided to visit the central market of Merida. Being the day before Christmas we were advised to park many blocks uptown to avoid the chaos. Thanks Kerry The traffic was intense even on foot. Everybody was there doing last minute Christmas shopping no doubt. I had hoped to find some shelled walnuts for blending into morning oatmeal but none could be found. I was able to bu http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Merida/blog-462558.html I put up a blog yesterday and even looked at it online so did Mary but today it is gone Don't know what happened. I wont attempt to rewrite it but I will put up photos with captions. Basically it was interiors of the place we are staying and photos of our walk around town mdash and to the anthropology museum to see relics of Mayan civilization. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Merida/blog-462346.html Seit dem 21.12.09 bin ich nun in Cancun Mexico im Hostal Haina... Canun ist total touristisch aber das Hostal ist ein kleiner Fleck wo es sehr gemtlich ist und man nicht viel vom Rummel mitbekommt. Ich nehm es sehr gemtlich und hab deshalb ausser etwas einkaufen und Waesche waschen lasse und etwas spazieren genau gar nichts gemacht. Nebenbei warte ich sehnschtig auf mein Weihnachtsgeschenk d http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Cancun/blog-462177.html After over a year of saving and scrimping I suddenly found myself more than two months into my trip and past the initial United States journey. The transitional phase was over and now I was to venture into truly different lands a foreign language and cultures that were not familiar to me via their dominance of the worlds television film and wider media.Stepping off from the plane in Cancun http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/blog-461926.html Although we are here in the highdry season of tourism the sun has been on vacation elsewhere. But today it peeked through faintly and stirred me to take a few photos inside our compound. It seems all homes here feature walled grounds. Some are utterly private others allow some visual intrusion. Yesterday one of these visual intruders a Mayan laborer working on a renovation next door was ut http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Merida/blog-461894.html Hej alle sammenSaa er det vores sidste fortaelling paa vores vidunderlige eventyr. Det har virkelig vaeret fantastisk at vaere afsted. Vi har oplevet saa meget som vi ikke engang troede var muligt. Og nej mor nu bliver det ikke vildere 0 Vi glaeder os til at kommer hjem og se jer alle sammen igen. Det bliver dejligt at holde jul sammen med vores familier og have tid til bare at hygge. Nick gla http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/blog-460500.html Day 1 Entering MexicoHappy tgiving Thu morning. Passport check camera check Sonoma wine check. A flight to Mrida Mexico via Houston took off noon. This time I am tagging along Carlos for his niecersquos wedding in Mrida. Mrida is the capital of Yucatn state and itrsquos located 3hrs west of Cancun facing the Gulf of Mexico. At this point Irsquove seen a glimpse of it in t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/blog-460281.html Lige lidt flere billeder.. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Uxmal/blog-457846.html Hej alleVi har virkelig vaeret omkring den sidste uge. Vi har afproevet vores egne graenser og maerket naturens kraefter. Det har vaeret rigtig spaendende og en lille smule skraemmende til tider.Vi startede med i sidste uge at bestige en aktiv vulkan. Den havde et kaempe udbrud i 1965 og har saa siden vaeret aktiv paa den maade at forstaa at der konstant loeber smaa floder af lave ned ad siderne http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Uxmal/blog-457827.html Today was a busy day. No. Hectic then busy.After a long day yesterday we felt positively bushed and decided to sleep in a little. Following the included breakfast at our hotel Hotel Dolores Alba we dilly dallied around our room fiddling with the Internet composing a blog entry and taking a much deserved dip in the pool. Once we got our merde together we booked a tour to Uxmal totally las http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Uxmal/blog-457078.html Well we finally made it to Mexico It's been a long haul this year with our trip being put off a couple times but now that we're here we couldn't be more happy with how the timing turned out to be more in our favour.Take this morning for instance. Here in beautiful colonial Merida it's barely 10AM and the weather is 24C but with the humidity feels just over 30C. And it's clear skies today. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Merida/blog-456968.html Isla HolboxHolbox island is located on the north coast of the Yucatn Peninsula. It is just over 1km wide and 12km long and home to some 1500 inhabitants. It is not a place for the masses and it's not that easy to get to either. The island is accessed by ferry M60 from the mainland town of Chiquila which is approximately 2 hours drive from Cancun. There are no paved roads on Holbox so when I http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/blog-452154.html We have landed in sunny Cancun for a week of RR before we tackle South America and the final months left of our journey. After going through immigration and then pressing the magic button to see if you are to have a customs check or not we headed to the land of all inclusive food and alcohol we share 7 days with loud obnoxious self absorbed Americans.Our first morning we were taken to one of t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/blog-448227.html I had a feeling it would be hot here but I had no idea I'd be walking into a steamroom 30 degrees and feels more like 40 with the humidity apparently. It's taken me a few days but I'm slowly getting used to being permanently wet and having really very very curly hair all the time Spent the first few days in Playa del Carmen a small nice touristy place on the beach. My kind of water very http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/blog-435301.html On Monday 10 Aug I left Habana and flew in into the USlike touristmekka of Cancun which was kind of another culture shock...After spending a day organising some things I did a day trip to the famous Maya ruins of Chichen Itza definitely worth seeing but due to the loads of people and the little time I had a busy thing.From there I went straight on south to Tulum a nice little town with a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/blog-429569.html