Mexico: Merida | A North American Bicycle Journey

Izamel Monastery (Day 204)

Made a side trip to the yellow town of Izamal today. There was very little else to do except see the yellow buildings which made quite an impressive sight with a backdrop of dark rain clouds overhead.

When I got back to Merida I wandered along the Paseo Montejo, a large boulevard that heads North of the historic centre. I found a Walmart superstore; curiosity got the better of me, so I checked it out.

An hour later I came out with a cheap Chinese-made button shirt and about thirty dollars worth of groceries. Having already abandoned my anti-mega corporation sensibilities for the day, I dropped into McDonalds on the way home.

Dinner tonight, a belated celebration of two hundred days of living it up; Canadian prosciutto with blue cheese, washed down with cheap red Californian wine and a half-litre of tepid strawberry flavoured yogurt.

Izamel Monastery (Day 204)

One of the many yellow streets of Izamel (Day 204)

Along the Paseo Montejo in Merida (Day 204)

Labna Ruinas (Day 205)

X’lapak Ruinas (Day 205)

More ruinas today then I could handle; Labna, X’lapak, Sayil, Kabah and Uxmal. Sayil and Kabah were particularly impressive, but after seeing so much today, I can’t remember why.

Uxmal was also particularly impressive but I was a little disappointed to find that on closer inspection, the stone hoop in the ball court was in fact just a very authentic looking fibreglass replica.