Yucatan - II

As I promised, I'll tell you a bit more about my trip last week.

I went with two other interns at Volkswagen, Ute and Martin, and we took one of the Jettas Volkswagen gives to the interns. Of course, officially the car is only for going to work and back and maybe doing your shoppings. But let's say they tolerate that we interns also use the cars for our weekend and holiday trips. Or how do you explain that the car assurance is valid all over Mexico...?

So we left last week friday at about 10pm. Our first stop was in Campeche. For Mexicans: Campeche, Campeche (i.e. the city Campeche in the state Campeche; many states are named equally to their capital or another big city). We arrived there about 12 hours later. Quite tired as you can imagine. But happy;-)

Campeche is the cleanest city I have seen in Mexico. It is a really nice colonial city with small streets, restored colonial buildings and of course the important city wall. You can see part of it on the picture.

We travelled with the "Lonely Planet" (at that point I still had it) which recommendet the Monkey Hostel. It is located directly next to the zócalo (city square) and we got to know quite some... mmh... let's say "freaky" people including some Germans. Backpackers with matted hair etc. The whole program... ;-)

Campeche is also very nice at night. They play music at the zócalo, there are clowns (well, that was more the kids' attraction) and they sell beer there...

And there was evening, and there was morning - the first day;-)