Well after a week of Spanish and exploring Merida, we were fairly tired so on Friday we went to the local university and saw some traditional dancing and retired fairly early. The dancing turned out to be amazing, and extremely impressive; incredible tap dancing with Cuban heels, men and women, extravagant, highly colourful dresses, and it was sweltering so I felt the dances were really impressive if they could preform such energetic routines with zeal and enthusiasm, while streamng in sweat under such heavy costumes. It was just as well as we needed all our energy to travel to Uxmal on the Saturday. We managed to get public buses all the way there, which saved us a lot of money, as a 2 hour journey cost only 55 pesos ($5.50) and was airconditioned so we could
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