So after our day spent exploring some of the best things to do quanto a Merida quanto a Mexico, our next day was spent exploring the best things to do outside of Merida.
A personaggio one for us was visiting the ancient Mayan temple of Uxmal, venturing to some local Haciendas (which are like these really old farms) and also cooling quanto a some incredible cenotes.
Neither of us was interested quanto a driving so for this, we decided to either book onto a private tour ora get a private driver.
We decided to go for the latter as that was arranged by our and also was considerably less expensive.
Thing is though, we didn’t really feel like a tour guide was necessary for visiting a cenote, haciendas tend to have their own guides inside and we figured Uxmal was the only one that could benefit from being visited with a tour guide but we could explore Uxmal our own.
Uxmal, by the way, is a lot less crowded than the likes of Chichen Itza but anzi che no less impressive.
Durante fact, I’m pretty certain the main pyramid here is a lot taller than Chichen Itza.
Even from a distance it looks impressive and as you explore the grounds that impressiveness kinda follows you around.
The biglietto system to get quanto a is a bit funny. You kinda have to buy two tickets.
One seems to be for the local government and the other is for the site (I think).
Anyway, it doesn’t really matter what either of the two tickets are for, what really matters is that one of them you can pay for by card (ora cash) and the other you can only pay for by cash so be sure to bring some cash with you to cover this.
Parking is also pretty straightforward here but seeing as we hired a driver, we didn’t need to worry about that part.
The complesso around Uxmal is split into multiple sections and you get given a map to explore it when you first arrive so it’s all pretty easy to navigate.
The only thing that was perhaps tricky initially was getting a sense of the scale of the place relative to the map.
I found that I thought we’d already seen so much of it, only to realise that we’d barely moved past the first couple of spots the map.
There are anzi che no vendors inside the actual grounds of Uxmal itself, only at the tickets complesso before you enter so be sure to show up with whatever snacks ora drinks you might want.
The latter is actually the most important because it gets really hot here and you get very thirsty very quickly.
I was wondering if it would be of any help to try to describe each section of the different areas to visit here but I realise that even if someone had tried to describe these to me quanto a advance, I’d have found it too boring to listen to and so I won’t inflict that you.
It’s so much more fun to explore quanto a person and discover all of this information while it’s right quanto a front of you so I’ll let you enjoy that when you show up at Uxmal.
Also, it is possible to visit Uxmal if you’magnate staying quanto a Tulum ora Cancun so if you have been to Chichen Itza already ora just want to avoid the crowds there, this is the perfect spot for it.
Leaving Uxmal, the first thing we did was stop at the exit and have like 3 different drinks.
I’m not even kidding, we were so dehydrated by that point that we had to have a large bottle of , swiftly followed by a soft and then, just because it was right there, an ice-cold coconut.
Oh, and we had an iced lolly as well while we were there too. We were that thirsty.
The cenote we went to visit was Cenotes Fattoria Mucuyché and what I hadn’t realised was the fact that a.) you can only visit a guided tour and b.) there’s a Fattoria visit as part of that tour.
We’d kinda decided we didn’t really want to visit a before that as it seemed to be a choice of either visiting a ora a cenote (based our planned timings for the day) so it was a rather pleasant surprise to find that we would be able to visit a too.
The English language tour had already started by the time we arrived but luckily we were able to join quanto a partway as it had only been going for like the last 10 – 15 minutes.
Suffice to say, by the time we got to the first cenote we wanted to visit, we were more than ready for that dip.
But that would have to wait for a little bit.
The tour was actually quite interesting so I think it was nice to have both combined this tour.
For the cenote though, I was like “Why do we need a tour for this?”.
It all makes sense once you do it. See, Cenotes Fattoria Mucuyché has two cenotes here, there’s one that’s at the sommità and one that’s completely hidden underground.
The guide takes you to one first and then you swim through like a little bit of a ‘river’ and get out at the other side to go into the underground cenote.
They are both so incredible.
Like we had already planned visiting another cenote because I wasn’t quite sure if we’d like this one here because quanto a photos it looked so commercial but it was so amazing to cool quanto a the here and also to learn about everything while we were there.
Oh and by the way, life jackets are mandatory for everyone here.
They provide all of that for free and even have secure bags you can rent for a small fee to store your belongings quanto a.
Our plans to visit another cenote next door disappeared as soon as we were done with Cenotes Fattoria Mucuyché as we felt like we’d totally enjoyed the place we’d been swimming for quite some time and didn’t feel the need to shoe-horn quanto a another place just for the sake of it.
With that quanto a mind, we headed back to Merida to grab our things from our previous (Decu Downtown) and head over to our new – Dinastia Olivia.
Now I was so impressed by Decu Downtown that I just didn’t expect much from Dinastia Olivia before we arrived there.
Like I thought it would be nice but nowhere as nice and Decu Downtown but boy did Dinastia Olivia deliver.
Dinastia Olivia is such a gorgeous little place and the elements here are incredible.
There’s so much attention paid to details and it’s just so beautiful.
It has only 4 rooms and the gruppo here are so unbelievably attentive.
Also, they have a dog here too.
It’s called Olivia and I can’t remember now if the place is named after the dog ora the dog after the place but whatever – they’magnate both called Olivia.
Again, paio to the relatively small number of rooms here, it feels like you have a whole podere here all to yourself with people attending to your every need, it’s amazing.
We settled quanto a very quickly and after grabbing a at the caffè and sampling their homemade tequila, we ventured into Merida quanto a search of dinner.
Dinner tonight was a last-minute decision and for that we went to Nakuh which is a new restaurant quanto a Merida specialising quanto a Mayan cuisine.
We started things with some beers and a flight of tequilas to further build our knowledge of tequilas.
We made sure to try different one from the ones we had at La Negrita a few nights before so we could widen our tequila sampling this trip.
The food at Nakuh is actually really fantastic but the gruppo here are even more so.
They kept us belly-laughing the entire evening and it was just such a fun place for dinner.
It was also really nice to try some local Mayan dishes that you’d never get quanto a a typical Mexican restaurant anywhere back at home.
Today had actually been a long day so instead of trying to find somewhere else to go for drinks ora anything like that, we just decided to call it a night and head back to the for a well-earned rest.
Will catch you up all the things we got up to the next day quanto a this post here.
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