Mexico - Winter 23/24 : 2023-12-26 : Merida - More Barrios Mágicos and More Homún Cenotes

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Bed and Breakfast Casa Carmita AirBnB Merida $1088.79 Free cancellation before 15:00 on Dec 10
Check-In: 15:00, Check-Out: 12:00. Leave keys on bureau or put them on room door
Entry instructions and WiFi on AirBnB 24 hours before stay
Guest favorite, Superhost, Room plus private bathroom in home with shared spaces.
Luggage drop-off allowed. Pets allowed.


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Today we had planned another attempt on Dzibilchultín but with a forecasted high of 31 I thought that would be dangerous for heat-sensitive me, so again we needed to go with another alternate plan. We decided to get an early start, walk some of the Barrios Magico then go back to Homún and do some Cenotes.

We decided to visit the Santa Barbara cenotes, which we had eschewed before because of how commercialized they are. We decided to give them a shot today because we know how the colectivos to Homún work, and we know there’s food available there.

Well commercialized doesn’t even begin to describe them. Every tourist in the world was there. If you like going to Cenotes for any kind of peace or tranquility, Santa Barbara is NOT the place for you.

We had a nice time anyway, walking the odd road down to the Cenotes (with small train tracks, but no trains… only minivans, horse-drawn carts, and bicycles), experiencing the Cenotes themselves amid the din and hubbub of the tourist-ful Cenotes, and had lunch at the on-site restaurant. When we first got there there was really loud music blasting in the echoey restaurant, but, a miracle power outage took care of that for us.

Heading back to Mérida, we thought we could get a colectivo right at Santa Barbara, but the lady at the counter said no, you have to go to the center of town to get one. Well, we knew that wasn’t entirely accurate because we knew the colectivos stopped on the highway near the driveway, but we didn’t know if they would have any available seats, either heading into Homún, or heading back to Mérida. We walked back to the highway debating our options - try to get a colectivo heading to Homún, try to get one on its way back to Mérida, walk into town to get one at the official stop, or try to find a motorcycle taxi to take us into town. Well, the colectivo god smiled on us today. Just as we were reaching the highway, a colectivo heading to Mérida was passing by. I waved at him and he stopped - he had just enough room to cram two more bodies in. Yay!!


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