As lovely as Mexico could be, one of many largest issues earlier than visiting is about ‘basic security’. Understandably so too as there’s additionally no uniformity on this.
Security tends to be tied to sure particular pockets so you possibly can discover one space is kind of effective however the surrounding areas aren’t.
Anyway, because of this, once we first determined to go to town of Merida in Mexico our first ideas had been about how secure it’s to go to.
Fortunately, official web sites all the world over regard Merida because the most secure metropolis in Mexico in order that eased off plenty of worries and we might simply concentrate on the essential issues, like the place to remain.
That half was simple although.
We discovered a spot referred to as Decu Downtown that was an prompt sure. There was just one drawback although.
We wanted the place for 4 nights however they’d availability on the primary two nights after which for in the future, no availability in any respect.
The calendar then opened up the day after that and was obtainable once more.
So with that in thoughts, we ended up having to e-book one other place for the remaining two nights.
I’ll present you that place in one other publish although. For now although, let me present you extra from Decu Downtown.
Certainly one of my favorite issues about this place is that there are solely 8 rooms which implies you kinda really feel like you’ve an entire villa, full with employees to are inclined to your each wants, all to your self.
The one time we actually noticed anybody else was at breakfast once we had been due to take a look at.
Initially it solely had like 4 rooms and the additional 4 rooms are actually an extension to it and it’s simply such a stunning place to remain within the metropolis.
Plus, it’s fairly centrally situated so after we’d checked in and altered out of our journey garments, we headed out to town partly to acclimatise but additionally to seek out ourselves a late lunch.
The factor about strolling round although is that it’s so distracting (in an excellent manner) and Merida simply instantly felt so comfy.
The entire vibe of the place felt such as you had been attending to discover a way more actual aspect to Mexico than Cancun or Tulum (which could be very simply carried out) however at a tempo that was simply so beautiful and relaxed.
Oh and by the way in which, if in case you have any Spanish language expertise or even perhaps much less probably, any Yucatec Maya language expertise, you’ll discover them very helpful in Merida.
As I kinda hinted at earlier, it’s very a lot a spot the place Mexicans correctly stay (not only a resort city) so these languages are very a lot lots of people’s first and second languages with not as many individuals talking English right here as you may discover in Tulum and Cancun.
Nonetheless although, you gained’t battle in any respect when you solely converse English.
You’ll discover it nonetheless simple sufficient to navigate and determine issues out.
Proper, again to our stroll by way of town.
Lloyd had a spot in Merida he needed to take a look at referred to as La Negrita which is nice for drinks and so we made our manner over there because the solar set.
After we confirmed up, we truly thought it was closed because it didn’t appear significantly busy from the surface.
We simply determined to cross the street anyway and go test it out anyway.
On chatting with the host, he informed us to go into the courtyard inside and that’s the place we discovered everybody was.
The courtyard is deceptively big inside and there’s a bar there (in addition to the one on the entrance) and there’s a stage right here too which explains why most individuals had been out right here.
There was going to be stay music on in slightly bit and seeing as we’d deliberate on staying for drinks anyway, we received a seat near the stage and ordered a few beers and a flight of tequilas as a result of we couldn’t fairly determine which of them to have.
By the way in which, the tequila is just not for doing ‘pictures’ with.
They’re there to be savoured slowly and never rushed by way of.
I’d by no means favored tequila at College and for a few years after that as a result of I had plenty of it as soon as for New 12 months’s Eve and received so sick from it with a hangover that dragged on for days after and ever since then simply typically averted it.
After that point although, there can be the odd event on an evening out the place somebody in our buddies group would order a spherical of tequila pictures and it will be the identical end result the subsequent day – essentially the most horrendous hangover.
On current journeys to Mexico (and we’re speaking in all probability within the final couple of years), I made a decision to cease dashing by way of tequila and to truly style it slowly.
I additionally found Mezcal like 7 years in the past and did the identical factor with it too. Recreation changer!
You begin to choose up sure notes, variations in fieriness and significantly in smoothness that you just by no means would have earlier than.
Suffice it to say, now I completely get the hype behind tequila however solely with the caveat that it’s loved correctly and never downed as shortly as attainable.
Our tequilas additionally got here with fried (or maybe roasted) bugs and chill powders to eat mentioned bugs with.
There have been additionally different snacks introduced with the drinks however understandably, they paled compared to the impression the bugs left on us.
Oh and taste-wise, the bugs had been truly effective and we discovered ourselves absent-mindedly snacking away at them whereas sipping on our drinks and slowly seat-dancing to the stay musicians on stage.
We had grand plans to go to a different place for dinner.
The ‘one other place’ nevertheless hadn’t been absolutely selected and seeing as La Negrita did meals too, we simply figured we’d as properly simply keep there for dinner.
That, by the way in which, was such an excellent name.
The meals is definitely actually good there and we discovered ourselves ordering seconds (and promptly realising that we had been in all probability already fairly full with the primary course that got here round).
Proper so there’s one factor I forgot to say in the beginning of this and that’s how you can get to Merida.
It’s truly very easy.
There’s an airport there so the simplest alternative is to fly there however Merida is only some hours drive away from the likes of Tulum and Cancun (as an illustration Chichen Itza is definitely nearer to Merida than it’s to Cancun) so you possibly can arrive in Tulum or Cancun and simply drive from there (or organize for transport out of your resort to Merida).
For flights, Miami airport has direct flights to Merida so the simplest for lots of people is simply to fly to Miami and join there to Merida.
However yeah, that’s how our first day went.
Will catch you in the next post on what it’s like to explore Merida properly which we did the very subsequent day.
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