Campeche to Merida

Before I forget:  Emma was right. The seafood in Veracruz is the very best! Shrimps and fish are incredible, and restaurants are the best. I recommend them!. From Villahermosa we kept going South to the ruins of Palenque. What a place! We never imagined that it would be so big and impresive. The ruins indicate that the Mayas were not only good architects but also great artists. Palenque is a beautiful place, well kept and clean, and in its time must have been something exceptional. Unfortunately, as in other ruins, the information provided on the sites is scarse and of poor quality, so in order to complete our understanding we have to go to Wikipedia. From Palenque we drove to Campeche, on the northern coast of the Yucatan peninsula, which we plan to tour today. Campeche as well as Merida are very neat cities. We had some problems trying to find the location of the hotels, but people is very friendly and helpful. After a humongous breakfast, we drove around Campeche's Historic Center. We visited one of the old forts used to protect the city against the pirates. It brought great memories because as a kid I read many pirates stories and Campeche was one of the places where my favorite pirates used to go for assorted pillage, rape, and murder. Today we drove to Merida first passing through the ruins at Edzna. The ruins  are not as impressive as those in Palenque, but this is an actual archelogical investigation site, and they are still discovering more stuff. We also drove  through Uxmal but we arrived too late, so we will try it again tomorrow morning.