Around Merida

In the last few days, we have been visiting cenotes and the small coastal town of Progreso, located on the Gulf of Mexico. We are currently camping in Merida, the capital of Yucatán, a very beautiful city, which I will introduce in the next post. A cenote is a natural sinkhole, that is formed when a collapse of limestone rocks exposes groundwater. The term comes from the Yucatán Peninsula, where the ancient Mayans commonly used cenotes for water supplies and, occasionally, for human sacrifices. The Yucatán Peninsula alone has approximately 10,000 cenotes located throughout the peninsula. Some of them are public, some are private, some can be visited for free, and others, much larger and more interesting, can be visited as part of organized tours.

Yucatán is a fantastic travel destination (historical remains, beaches and cenotes, attractive cities), but also (compared to many other Mexican regions) very safe. As a travel strategy, we avoided the very touristy areas, such as Playa de Carnen and Cancun, choosing more authentic locations, visited mainly by Mexican tourists. As for the food, our subjective opinion: the best food in Central America, if it had the wine culture associated with the generous Argentinean beef steaks, I would say the food is even better than in Argentina!Baca lagi