Campeche

So after leaving the wonderful Palenque behind, Campache sounded like a good bet for me to recover in. Fab as it was, Palenque had totally exhausted me. The final part was one obstacle after another including severely steep (fairly randomly placed) steps, and a wibbly wobbly type bridge, which nearly proved to be my undoing trying to navigate it on crutches.

Campeche was described as an extremely relaxed Yucatan city with a beautiful plaza and stunning views of the sun dissapearing into the gulf of mexico every night. Ideal. We stayed in a slightly over budget, but absolutely lovely hotel called the American (fortunately there weren't too many there).

Our first day there, and we ventured out to have a meal in a restaraunt overlooking the plaza, and what a lovely view it was too.


Here's the main plaza. You can see the little comedy tourist trolly buses which we took on another day to tour the city in.


Obviously one of the first things we have to do upon arrival at any new destination is check out the various ice cream opportunities. I wasn't disappointed by this display.


Although I may have been a bit disappointed that I could only have one.


A lovely old cinema opposite the ice cream place.


This was taken on the tour we went on. This statue was dedicated to the fisherman of the area. According to the tour guide, our driver was the model for this. Ahoho.


The tour was quite pleasant and informative. We stopped off at a church where there is statue known as the black christ (Blasphemous...surely. I mean everybody knowns Jesus was white and had blue eyes!)


Another photo from inside the church.


The city streets of Campeche were genuinely lovely, as all the colonial buildings in the historic centre are painted different pastel shades. According to our tour guide, no two consecutive houses could be the same colour (I was slightly curious as to what might happen if you tried).






Another thing to notice is that it wasn't blazing sunshine the whole time (bloody outrageous I know). It even rained a couple of times making it a total nighmare for me to get around on my crutches. When the sun did come out it was boiling mind.








Here's a monument to motherhood we found on our travels. Its the third one we've seen in Mexico so far. Seems like a damn good idea to me.


This was the cathedral on the east side of the plaza at night. They really know how to light up there buildings. It looked proper stunning.


And finally, here's a few shots of the sunset. It was lovely, even if I was sweating profusely as we'd pegged it down there to make sure we didn't miss it on the last night we were there. Here's that noble profile yet again.




Ahhh.....isn't it lovely.