Time to leave Celestun ... at least for now as I know we will be back. We tried to make reservations in Progreso but hit the wall after just a bit so instead, we made reservations at the Zar Hotel in Merida for five days. We'll get to see Merida and take short jaunts out to the beach communities. We've revamped our travel plans as biting off all of the eastern shore of the Yucatán as well as Belize is just too much if we want to go with "slow travel"
We'd gotten quite settled in room #16 on the third floor of the Hotel Gutierrez so packing up and getting out was the first order of the day.
They are building a new road between Celestun and Merida and when finished (June, 2017) the trip will take less than one hour. For today, the drive is about an hour and a half. We saw several iguanas on this leg of our journey. They are certainly prehistoric animals.
When we stopped for gas we needed to double or triple tip the attendant who pumped the gas and cleaned the windows. Yes, an attendant. Our car is filthy since it has been sitting under the trees in the hotel compound for the past week. Thankfully Justin takes pride in keeping the cars clean and tidy. Not so much pride today, but we carry on.
We came to an umleitung heading into town. The detour was not marked very well. Now that was no surprise.
Settled into our Zar Hotel. Unlike our Zar Hotel in Coatzacoalcos, the elevator works here but the safe doesn't. These hotels are quite new and they are without frills. I can handle things without a bellman, but I might recommend that they spring for a cart to get your luggage to your room.
We walked around a bit before choosing a restaurant for dinner. Back home I hooked up our Apple TV primarily so we could look at our photos. First two tries were not successful so I'll try again tomorrow.
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