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North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid November 20th 2008

After reading rave reviews about the Candelaria Hostel we got there to find it had been closed down a few weeks ago. Still Hotel Lili had a treat - a cable TV, and shit though it is, MTV scores highly when deprived of such creature comforts. Following a further reccommendation from the Rough Guide we went to the King of Baseball's bike rental shop and waited for evidence of his 'insatiable character'. Antoñio 'Negro' Aguilar had a certian sort of gruff charm..'you break bike; you pay. You lose key; you pay'. He soon loosened up when we asked him his baseball career and got him to pose for a photo with us. Despite his advancing years and crutches, he had a strong grip onthe arm when he insisted on a kiss on the cheek for his ... read more

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid August 12th 2008

Valladolid, 13-01-1990. I have no complaints of the busses in Mexico so far. It took us three hours by air-conditioned bus to Valladolid, nice bus with reclinig seats and a sober chofer. We had heard stories back home in Amsterdam about all mexican drivers always being drunk and practising macho driving especially when there are gringos on board, not so far. Valladolid seems a pretty enough city but we are mostly here because of Valldolid's proximity to the ancient ruins of Chichen Itza. Since we live on a pretty tight budget we spent our evenings sitting outside and drinking beer from the supermercado instead of hitting the bars. Hopefully things will be cheaper in Guatamala and further south. ... read more

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid January 4th 2008

Vroeg uit te veren .. denk zelfs om half 8 (vok!) Geen zon, wel wind en ook REGEN!!! Potverdorie .. 4 dagen aan het wachten om op dat zalig strand te gaan liggen en dan nog regen krijgen! Heb dus maar ticketje naar volgende bestemming geboekt .. url=http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=es&rls=com.microsoft%3A*%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SUNA&q=Valladolid+mexicoValladolid. Daar rond de middag gearriveerd Wel tof, aangenaam, druk maar op een gezellige manier stadje. Al heb ik er de eerste uren niet veel van gemerkt want was druk op zoek naar een slaapplaats. Ondertss was de zon er al doorgekomen (jaja! als we met 3 rugzakken moeten sleuren, dan zal ze is komen piepen). Twas zweten afzien en mijn blijn nog wat verder open lopen. Ben bij zo´n 8 hotels gaan horen .. maar ofwel volzet, ofwel veel te duur. Dan maar terug naar hostel waar ik ... read more
Valladolid
Valladolid
Valladolid

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid December 28th 2007

Arriving in Valladolid at night, we fell victim to its inhabitants’ amiability. Everyone was eager to tell us where the hotel was, even when they had no idea. Dawn revealed a modest town more or less built on a grid system, and the fact that we had unwittingly passed our accommodation by about five times the night before. Ostensibly chosen for its proximity to the Mayan ruins of Chichén Itzá, Yucatán’s Valladolid was really serving as a surrogate hometown for Raúl, unable to spend the holidays in his own Valladolid thousands of miles away in Spain. The relaxed colonial town is gradually surfacing on the tourist route, as the coaches - parked two abreast in the main square - attested, but seems so far free of the overdevelopment and opportunism that is a feature of the ... read more
Temple of Kukulcan, Chichen Itza
Cenote Zaci, Valladolid
Observatory, Chichen Itza

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid December 20th 2007

We took a second class bus to Coba, standing all the way. At Coba we tried the only budget hotel in town. It was acceptable for P$250 (US$24) so we decided to stay. We had a lovely breakfast in the restaurant and headed off to the archaeological site. It was a quick walk. Going past the lake we saw a man feeding a rather large crocodile. We started down the pier but when he said it would be P$10 each to see the croc we turned around. There were only a few small tourist vans in the car park when we arrived. It was still early. It was P$45 each entrance and we walked in saying no to offers of a guide. The Lonely Planet had a wee map that was enough for us. After seeing ... read more
Coba
Coba
Valladolid

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid June 11th 2007

Hey up once again! I'm not gonna be writing much this time as I've written plenty over the last few blogs. Basically we headed from Tulum to Valladolid which is a small town in the central Yucatan so I was striking distance from my main Mexico "must see" of Chichen Itza and also the local Ek Balam Maya Ruins. We stayed at a great hotel on the zocalo called Hotel Maria De Luz which had its own swimming pool and a great little restaurant that served regional and generic Mexican dishes at real decent prices - beats Tulum's inflated beach prices hand down for quality & quantity. Valladolid is pretty scruffy and still very Mexican and as such affords plenty of on street vendors plying there wares and has many places to eat at very economical ... read more
Dzitnup Cenote - Huge Stalactites
Dzitnup Cenote - Claire In The Light
Dzitnup Cenote - Tree Roots

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid May 2nd 2007

WEB SITES Valladolid Hotel El Meson Del Marques PLACES TO VISIT/SEE shopping, Cenote Zace in town Ek Balam Ek Balam Cenote Dzitnup Cenote Dzitnup Resources We found a TEKTREK on Ek Balam that we could listen to on our iPod. There was also a map that we could print our and use as we walked . So we followed the ipod with a good discription of the site With our little rental car we bega... read more
Hotel El Meson Del Marques
Hotel El Meson Del Marques
Iglesia San Bernardino de Siena y Ex-Convento de Sisal

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid March 1st 2007

Deze morgen fit en monter opgestaan om 7u, Kingz had om 5u al n diarreesessie achter de rug. Naar goede gewoonte weer ontbijt op bed: overheerlijke wafers van Lu. Daarna richting park en fiestverhuur getaffeld - deze uiteindelijk na lang zoeken ook gevonden. Fietskes gehuurd en dan richting de cenote van Dzitnup gepedaald, half uurke in volle zon: conditietraining!! Maarja, het was zeker de moeite waard, vette grot, weinig volk (waarschijnlijk omdat we zo vroeg daar waren, zelfs de Mexicaantjes lagen nog in hun hamaca te doezelen... Effe zitten haken in de grot, fotokes geshoot, effe met de voeten int water, ons niet gewaagd aan een zwempartijtje want in de Batcave lagen batdrolletjes in het water :-( Tegen half 11 waren we terug in Valladolid, langer pedalen dan voorzien, waarschijnlijk ook te wijten aan de kleine ... read more
Cenote Dzitnup
Cenote Dzitnup
Cenote Dzitnup

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid February 28th 2007

Happy Birthday!!!! vandaag welgeteld 2 jaar en 4 maand samen, dat moet gevierd worden met ontbijt aan bed!! Wakker om 4u ( jawel jawel, ook KingZ!!!!!) ontbijt op bed rond 5u, ge ziet we zijn qua uren van eten en slapen nog volop aant acclimatiseren... Rond 7u gepakt en hennig gezakt en tegen 8u vetrokken met de bus richting Valladolid. Eenmaal uit Cancun: wouden afgewisseld met nog eens wouden en kleine dorpjes, toeterende roadtrains en voorbijgestoken worden door euhhhh...bakken op wielen die bij ons nooit door de keuring zouden geraken. Nanna heeft haar ogen hennig de kost gegeven, tussen wat doezelen door. Aangekomen in Valladolid, op aangeven van KingZ richting hotel getaffeld (met een paar blokjes/calles om...oeps) Nat van t zweet ingecheckt in hotel Zaci. Na een doucheke met de collectivo richting Chichen Itza vertrokken. Onze ... read more
Cancun
Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Valladolid February 9th 2007

In Valladolid now - got here yesterday - smaller town and less touristy although yesterday the organized tour buses came through at about 6pm. Hostel here is excellent - good beds, great back yard with outside kitchen, tables, hammocks, and lots of trees and green. Finally feel like I am getting more adjusted to Mexico, though I must admit not to the midday heat. Here there is less a clear definition between indoors and out, stores and homes open out onto the street, all have grilled windows, doors shut with a padlock. Both the streets and sidewalks are narrow. all is a bit chaotic - but good. Vallodolid pretty well shuts down in the afternoon for the siesta and reopens in the evening. I Feel a bit wierd for I definately stand out as a tourist, ... read more




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