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<\/a>Early morning in Campeche<\/p><\/div>\n
I had to deal with a mini crisis at home while breakfast was going on, so no pics, but let me just say my breakfast wasn’t really anything to remember. I had panuchos, typically a favourite breakfast of mine, but these were really greasy and bony! Not great at all. I did appreciate that I was offered coffee the second I sat down, that the coffee cup was magically refilled at one point, and that the coffee was good!<\/p>\n I was picked up at my hotel at 8:00 on the dot. It was just myself and one other guy, so we went in a regular car. It was very luxurious to be on a semi-private tour! The plan for the day was to hit up three pyramid complexes, Edzn\u00e1<\/a>, Hochob<\/a>, and Dziblnocac<\/a>. I’m not going to get into a lot of details in this post. If you’re interested to learn more, the Mayan Ruins Website<\/a> will do a much better and more thorough job of it than I could. I downloaded their page about each site (links above!) to my phone so I could consult it on site, a rather genius movie, as my housesitter said!<\/p>\n Map of the day<\/p><\/div>\n Amazing. The longer I live in Yucatan, the more I cannot believe my colonizer, white-washed, revisionist history education that claimed that such things don’t exist on this continent. Construction of Edzn\u00e1 began in 200BC!!!<\/p><\/div>\n There were lots of chubby iguanas around the site. This handsome fellow was happy to pose for pictures. I saw tourists with big cameras photographing insects, so I told them about this guy and they were so happy to find one that stood still long enough for them to get pictures. I’m so glad I told them about him!<\/p><\/div>\n This handsome fellow was guarding the entrance to the site where you buy your tickets.<\/p><\/div>\n I was taking the photo above when I felt a little nip at the back of my calves like the kisses Bonita used to give me! He was rewarded with an ear scratch!<\/p><\/div>\n We were at Edzn\u00e1 about an hour and a half, the perfect amount of time.<\/p>\n Our next stop was much shorter, but also much smaller. I never felt rushed all day.<\/p>\n This was quite the climb up as the risers are high.<\/p><\/div>\n :-O My first impression was that I was about to enter the mouth of the monster\/god, seeing eyes and a mouth, and, lo and behold, that is exactly correct and the intended effect!<\/p><\/div>\n Hochob is when the other guest and I finally broke the ice and started enjoying our day together! It helped that he hadn’t thought to bring a lunch and I’d packed enough peanut butter sandwiches to share!<\/p>\n It was then time to go to our final stop. Yes, I can write Dzibilnocac without looking it up since we have Dzibilchaltun north of M\u00e9rida that has gotten me used to spelling the first part!<\/p>\n The new camera makes for stunning pictures, no? I cannot believe I have an entire phone period of ownership where I essentially have no travel pictures. For y’all, I pretty much jumped from my 6 (which was already a huge improvement over the 5C that I went to Europe with) to the 14 Pro Max, skipping the middling camera of my XR.<\/p>\n One of my favourite things about Tuesday was being out in nature. I don’t get enough of that in M\u00e9rida.<\/p>\n We had a 2.5-hour journey back to Campeche and had been in the sun all day. I joked that I could go for a cold beer. I was equal parts horrified, amused, and grateful when my guide asked a villager where we could get beer and then we detoured to get it! The other guest paid for my beer and it wasn’t until much later that I realised it was the thank you for the sandwiches! Beer tastes exceptionally good when being chauffeured in a fancy car after a long day in the hot sun!<\/p>\n We got in around 4PM. I showered, changed, and went out in search of dinner!<\/p>\n I ended up at Bastion off the main square, which was mostly a mistake.<\/p>\n Things started off very promising with this spicy coleslaw and totopos…<\/p>\n And crostini with garlic sauce.<\/p>\n Dinner looked great — vegetables are a nice change from no vegetables in M\u00e9rida, and the xcatic pepper sauce looked so pretty. But the shrimp were overcooked and over salted. And then it wasn’t until after I left that I realised I’d gotten scammed on the tip — they included it in the bill and I didn’t clue in when I wasn’t asked if I wanted to add one since I was paying with my credit card and I left a cash tip as well. Oh, well, it’s not a real trip unless you’ve been scammed at least once, right?<\/p>\n I was super amused, though, that as he brought my dinner, the server said, “You look like someone who wants tortillas with her dinner. I’ll be right back.” Maybe because I tore through all those botanas? 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