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Day 34: Who Thought Travelling On Mexico’s Independence Day was a good idea?
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Sun. 16th September 2012 It was an early start today to catch the 8:30am Oriente second class bus to Cancun. Our taxi driver dropped us close to Piste bus station, just as the local police closed the main road for …
Day 33: Chichén Itzá
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Sat. 15th September 2012 Today was Chichén Itzá day and we weren’t sure what to expect – Wonder of the World or astronomical let-down. After spending something around 5 hours on the site, it is definitely the former. We had …
Day 32: Not The End Of The World, But The End Of An Era
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Fri. 14th September 2012 Firstly, some sums Mayan style (I prefer sums to words!!) 1 Bakton = 394 years and 13 Baktuns = 1 Era So 1 Era = 394 x 13 = 5,126 years And the last era began …
Day 31: Mérida, You Are A Hard City To Love
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Thur. 13th September 2012 We thought at first that perhaps Miraslava was right – we wouldn’t enjoy staying in Mérida, it was a big city not the real Mexico. (Which strangely was why we booked to go there in the …
Day 30: Transfer to Mérida
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Wed. 12th September 2012 We were sad to leave Tulum and Lo Nuestro Petit Hotel but it was time to move on to Mérida. After breakfast, off to the supermarket to buy sandwiches for lunch to eat on the 4 …
Day 29: Swimming With Turtles
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Tues. 11th September 2012 It was going to be such a simple day. We packed so much in yesterday, that we thought we would scale down our plans for today and just go to Dos Ojos (two eyes) cenote for …
Day 28: The many steps of Coba
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Mon, 10th September 2012 There is only so much that can be done by public transport and so today we decided to hire a car (£35 for the day) to visit Coba some 40km away from Tulum, which had been …
Day 27: Sometimes You Just Get Lucky
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Sun. 9th September 2012 As in Cuba, we really want to get a bit of a flavour of the real Mexico. It is no more in Playa del Carmen (even though the Starbucks was much appreciated) than in Cancun. So …
Day 26: Acclimatisation and catch up
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Sat, 8th September 2012 I will not labour the point that Dave woke me to say it was 8:30am and time for breakfast, only to find he was still on Cuba time and it was really only 7:30am. Those who …
Day 25: Culture Shock
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Fri. 7th September 2012 We hadn’t realised until today how much we had acclimatised to Cuba – how much we had come to accept the scenery, sights and the limitations of Cuba as normal. So getting to Playa del Carmen …