Campeche Yucatan City by the Sea

Welcome to Campeche, land of Mayans, Spaniards and Pirates. This statue gives the impression that the Spaniard got the blessing while the Mayan got to row the boat.

Campeche is also a huge fishing city.

The city is walled and has many forts to keep pirates and other bad people away.

The Malecon (boardwalk) is 5k long and is outside of the city walls

                                     There's also a massive market that seems to go on forever

Acres of fresh flowers

Every vegetable that's ever been invented

Fruit too die for

                        I'll get mine at the market, thank you. I mean the other kind of market.

Everything is grass fed and organic, but still...

                                                          Fresh off the boats

Whatever you want, you can get here.

 One of the prettiest cities I've ever seen. Clean, colorful and polite drivers who actually stop to let you cross the street.

                                              Nice hotel with a little cafe on the 2nd floor overlooking one of the many  squares that came alive at night.

                                                    Too many beautiful churches to count

                               Campeche has a tremendous amount of Colonial residential areas. Real estate is quite costly. the inside of these houses and courtyards are massive.

                                              Had the coconut shrimp at a cool outdoor cafe. So good.

 Furthermore, Campeche gets a very high rating for a romantic and beautiful city to visit from Mike and I. It's about a two hour bus ride from Merida with the R/T busfare costing about 14. pp. Next time we'll stay overnight.