We just took a quick weekend away and went down to the southern part of Quintana Roo and visited Bacalar, Chetumal and Calderitas. To get to Bacalar from Cancun took 4 hours of driving, and that was with heavy rain at times. Muyil is a small site, but it was a perfect break for us.
We had Sam the wonder dog with us, and he needed to get out and run around. Husbandito, being the eternal cheapskate, talked his way into the ruin without paying AND the guy let us bring our dog in AND the guy loaned us his very cute puppy for Sam to play with while we were romping about the ruin. On the other hand I hate to make a reservation ahead of time and then hate the roomβ¦. Our room faced the lake, and the room smelled and was clean. I doubt if they normally take dogs, I think we kind of talked them into it.
The next day we asked if we could stay another night, but guess what, bad planning caught up to us and our room was reserved for the night. So we had to leave and find another place to stay. But at least it was daylight. So the second night we stayed at Casita Carolina , which is also right on the lake. We stayed in the round palapa room, which is charmingly decorated. But I thought the decor was really lovely. Once we had found a place to stay we went off on our mission for the day which was to visit an area just north of Chetumal called Calderitas.
To get to Calderitas we had to drive through Chetumal. Chetumal is the capital of the state of Quintana Roo. As we were driving there I found several radio stations broadcasting from Belize in English, which was a trip. It was especially fun because sometimes the Belize accent is difficult for me to understand. Chetumal has a bad reputation. Some have told me that Chetumal is full of 12 year old prostitutes.
What I saw supported the latter theory. The streets were wide, well-planned and had little traffic. I saw almost no garbage. I saw no 12 year old hookers, or any hookers, or any 12 year olds for that matter. In fact we saw almost no one. Chetumal has a malecon, which is a waterfront walkway. It runs along the shore for most of the city, and goes past the important government buildings.
