How do you wind down from an amazing tour!
Take a swim in an underground river flowing through a cave that has water so crystalline that you simply see the bottom as far as the light goes. We were just told there about 3000 cenotes in the Yucatan.
Have you ever met someone that that leaves you in awe? Not the ones that are famous that you never thought a normal person like one of us could meet, but one that no one knew about that left you feeling like you had just been in a master’s presence?
The growing and harvesting and processing and machinery of rope making from sisal, aptly demonstrated by our incredible tour guide and rope making crew from the Hacienda, left us in awe. It’s probably better seen than described on paper, so Carma took videos along with pictures.
We have 20 feet of sisal rope. It’s coiled and ready to hang on our wall as soon as we have a place of our own. We watched it being made by hand on a day of Olympic proportions when it comes to fascinating memories.
And, Saturday Night Biciruta (Bicycle ride). Meat market. Arugula pizza.
Just a few of the images you will see in this week’s slideshow - coming to you from Merida, Mexico.
Tip the older gentlemen and women that bag your groceries. Who knew?! We were here a couple of weeks before we found out about this one. They are volunteers and they are there to earn a few pesos. (25 t0 50 cents)
If you saw our short video of the home we are staying in while in Merida, you know that doing our laundry is a very manual process.
We thought we’d share how it looks doing laundry at our house… enjoy the pics, presented in order of your normal washing cycle! The dry cycle can take up to 36 hours!
We anticipate we will have multiple posts about the Yucatecan food. Here is Yucatecan food part 1!
We enjoyed our Friday evening at a local Yucatecan restaurant called La Chaya Maya.
The highlight of the evening was watching local Mayan make handmade tortillas. They had two Mayan ladies making hundreds of tortillas while we enjoyed our meal.
We had the wonderful privilege of taking advantage of the Sunday tradition of closing down one side of the main avenue in Merida so that walkers, bicyclists, skateboarders, joggers and families in all sizes take over Paseo de Montejo.
Families, young and old, some just learning to bike, scooters, and more are all a part of this family-oriented event. Bikes for up to 5+ people, some with canopies, navigate the avenue.
We celebrated our fourth anniversary at Hacienda Xcanatun, just north of Merida a few miles.
After our meal, we were completely surprised with the dessert you see above! Here we were in Mexico, we didn’t know anybody, and they had made us a special dessert for our anniversary!