Tour of Mexico: travel to Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche

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Voyage in the company of a friend of the Sorrento Peninsula. Arrived by plane from Rome (via Amsterdam) to Cancun, accommodation in the heart after we left the next morning in the bus at a time of Valladolid. A brief visit to the Zocalo where he had been a carnival, lunch in a beautiful restaurant with a lovely patio and path to the ruins of the Itza Chitchen to admire the spectacle of lights and sounds of the famous pyramid of Castillo.
Having slept in a spartan retirement Runs at the ruins, the day after the visit to Merida where we can also assist in the ceremony at the Cathedral of the ash that faces the Zocalo.Pranzo and transfer to the ruins of Uxmal we visit under a burning sun. In addition to majestic archaeological structures we see some iguanas perched at sole.Serata to Campeche for dinner at a fast food, walk on the Zocalo and lungomare.Notte for transfer by bus to Palenque in Chiapas, where in the early morning arrival. Here we visit pre-Columbian ruins surrounded by lush forest, lunch in the center and leave for San Cristobal de las Casas.Durante stop the transfer to the wonderful waterfalls of Agua Azul, where we dive in the clear waters of the river flowing between the luxuriant vegetation, and change of middle of Ocosingo, the city headquarters of the movement that claims the rights of Indians with Subcomandante Marcos. San Cristobal de las Casas us with an elegant old town from the rich colonial past and a bell'hotel. The next morning excursion to the Canyon of Sumidero that we plowing with a spear Grande.Ritorno to the Rio San Cristobal, lunch and hike to Indian village of San Juan Chamula famous for the market and for the Church in which the religious syncretism gives rise to strange events such as the sound of a rutteggiare Coca and Pepsi to free the Church of peccati.Il floor is covered with pine needles and the indigenous invoke the saints in a particular way: you kneel in front of a small stone altar where they drink alcohol, lit candles and, of course, in San Cristobal rutteggiano.Tornati visit the colorful Indian market, dinner based on tacos and ubiquitous paste beans and dark accommodation. The next morning early to start Comitán collective where we change buses for the crowded and colorful border with Guatemala, almost a market.
After the visit to Guatemala and Belize in a reference to its return route to Mexico by Bus to Chetumal. From here in Tulum where sleep in a nice hotel. The following day visit the Caribbean and bathroom to the ruins of Tulum. In the afternoon another bathroom, this time in the pretty cove Yal Ku between rocks, clear water and tropical fish where we come across walking the beaches of Akumal. Evening in Playa del Carmen with quick dinner on the fifth tourist road between fleets of tourists from all over the world then pernotto.Il after some days of beach and moved to Cancun where we look at the nightlife of the area hotelier, a Disneyland Caribbean and accommodation in the same inn giorno.Il first of our tour is over in advance and so we decide to puntatina in Cuba (see on Tour). At our return to Cancun we swim in the hotelier, the sea is turquoise, the beach clear but the horizon is closed by construction tristi senz'anima hotel, a real squallore.Dormiamo once nell'alberghetto after Cancun having lunch in an Italian restaurant recently opened. The following day we return to Playa del Carmen to catch the fast ferry to the island of Cozumel. From here we reach a boat where the ref in three different points for the first time in my life, I encounter the pleasant snorkelling.Dopo the beautiful experience we get some sunny beach in Cozumel sull'affollata then take the ferry to Playa del Carmen from Cancun where to start. Overnight in the usual inn. The last day of the Mexico spend on the beach of Tortuga in the lagoon of Cancun and the Caribbean Sea and facing Mujares.Nel late afternoon we reach the aereopoirto where we flew to Rome via Amsterdam.
The whole trip was very interesting, we have tried to touch all aspects that the area offered: Mayan ruins, Caribbean beaches, coral reefs, waterfalls, colonial cities, villages and Indian traditions.
We never felt in danger even if at Palenque, we avoided a scam: they wanted to sell us a trip where we probably would have tended to rob an ambush. We have not done any preventive vaccination but we were careful to eat (no fruit, no raw vegetables, only bottled water to wash closed teeth) avoiding the diarrhea.
The ground displacements were made in Bus in Yucatan and Quintana Roo, and Chiapas in collective taxi.
For the record we have reached the States Qintana Roo, Chiapas, Yucatan and Tobasco.
The expenditure was relatively low, to keep in mind that Chiapas is very cheap and the area between Cancun and Tulum is quite expensive.