Valladolid Stories


Valladolid

Located halfway between Merida and Cancun, Valladolid is two hours away from each. Valladolid, a bustling Mayan city has special colonial flavor. Majority of the townspeople still wear the typical Mayan dress. The Sultan of the East is another name of Valladolid. It was a title given for the architectural beauty of the colonial buildings and historical ...


Cenotes

The day we decied to leave we rented bikes and road to the two cenotes out of town about 30 mins. The cenotes were great. Deep caves that have collected blue green water. There was a hole in the cieling that the sun would shine through. We hung out and listened to all the birds and maybe some bats that made nests in the holes in the cieling. They were c...


We love Valladolid or at least like it a lot.

Tips on Valladolid- The Hotel Marcez is super nice but the food there is pretty bland. You pay as much as you would on the coast, salads $45 pesos and other plates $60 to $80. Maybe just go for the Yucatan food or drinks the fountain and all the cool lanters and lights are worth the stop in. (Same with breakfast not too impressed and stay away from the...


18 Hours in a refugee camp...

...OK maybe not quite, but might as well have been, I´m talking about the 18 hour ferry ride from La Paz to Mazatlan. The ferry ride that we were told was a mear 12 hours, which we thought would be an adventure, only to discover 20 minutes into the journey, that it was in fact 18 hours.... of pure hell, on what Mr T so rightly named... the shit cruise! ...