Yucatán Journal 7: hire a scooter, see lots of cool stuff.
There’s so much great stuff to do around Tulúm that you could easily spend weeks waiting for colectivos and negotiating with taxis in order to get out and see it […]
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Yucatán Journal 6: Tulúm in ruins
We spent longer than expected in Tulúm. This wasn’t deliberate, it was just the only place we could get a room for a few nights. It wasn’t deliberate, but as […]
Yucatán Journal 5: Puucing around at Uxmal
It’s not a Mayan site without a big, photogenic pyramid. Uxmal has one of these, and it’s the first thing you see when you arrive at the site. This isn’t […]
2011 is the new (plague-ridden) 2012
The Maya’s sophisticated, multi-wheeled calendar stops dead in 2012. Perhaps, given that they are ancient and mysterious and popular with hippies, this abrupt end to their long-counting conception of time […]
Yucatán Journal 3: the depths of the Cenote
We stopped at Valladolid on the way to Chichen Itza so we could visit the underworld. I had no idea, before coming to Mexico, how easy it was to do […]
