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We arrived in Mérida early in the afternoon on Thursday in plenty of time to check into our lodgings for the next three nights and to get things sorted away so that we would be free to watch the first … Continue reading →

Late morning finds us, Kathy, her friend Pat, Maureen and I, standing in front of the Magician’s pyramid at Uxmal.  So far, this is the most impressive of Mayan ruins that we have yet seen.  Our guide, seen in this … Continue reading →

 A bit of colour with not much to say.  This is what we see during a typical day strolling around our beach area. Of course, I am leaving the work of naming these birds with you as I don’t have … Continue reading →

On a recent walk to the village we decided to walk through and carry on to start walking on the road to Mérida so that we could see the western edge of the laguna.  Of course, the actual end of … Continue reading →

Last week, we walked down the sandy dirt beach road to the town of Chelem Puerto, a distance of about eight kilometres from our villa. Nothing unusual for us, this business of long walks. We were just curious about seeing … Continue reading →

With only hours to go until it was time to leave the hacienda, we wandered the grounds taking in as much of it as we could, the sights, the sounds and the smells.  Chalanté was gifting us with beautiful memories. … Continue reading →

Izamal is also known as the yellow city and the city of hills.  Many of the buildings on the streets through the central part of this city are painted yellow like the convent church in this photo.  I used my wide … Continue reading →

Today’s post is all about time spent around the hacienda with Roger and Suzanne.  Before breakfast both Roger and I were busy being “birders”, a new career for me anyway.  What does that mean?  Well, it is basically trying to … Continue reading →

We finally arrived at the hacienda Chalanté in the late afternoon.  The main hacienda is a large Spanish building from the 1700’s.  Chalanté is older than that.  On the grounds are a few ruins that are from the 1600’s.  In … Continue reading →

We took the road south as we headed to spend the next two nights at the Chalanté Hacienda just outside of Sudzal, a small village near Izamal.  Our first stop was in Tizimin.  As we entered the town, we saw … Continue reading →