2017 - 2018:  Punta Mita Mexico to Quetzaltenango Guatemala

Dec 18, 2017.  Celestun, Flamingo Guest House

• Got my car, back on the road by 9:30.  First stop: breakfast at Hacienda Temozon, wonderfully faded, with machines (no longer functioning) for the production of hemp, a giant swimming pool, and, of course, no clients.

• And here’s my tentative route for the next several days (pretty much everything left in Yucatán):

Mérida > Hacienda Temozon > Cenote Xlakah > Cenote Dzonbakal > Celestun > Chunchukmil > Grutas de Calcehtok > Hecelchakan > Xcalumkin > Uxmal > Santa Elena: Museo de las momias > The Pickled Onion > Kabáh > Sayil > Xlabpak > Museo de Cacao > Labná > Grutas de Lol-Tun > Oxkutzcab > Maní > Mayapan > Chunkianan > Cenote Cuzama > Akanceh > Ake > Izamal (at sunset) > Cenote Yokdzonot > Piste > Chichen Itzá > Grutas de Balankanche > Cenote Samula / X’Kekén > Hacienda San Lorenzo Oxman > Valladolid (eat at Yerba Buena del Sisal) > Ek Balam > Cenote X-Canché > Tizimin (eat lunch at Tres Reyes) <> Rio Lagartos > Dzilam de Bravo > Parque principal de San Cristano > Reserve ecologica “El Corchito” > Chicxulub > Hacienda Yaxcopoil > Dzibilchaltun Pueblo (good seafood restaurant) > Mérida

• Saw my first two cenotes (and swam in the first): Xlakah and Dzonbakal.  Very nice indeed.  They had little fish, too.

• Took the Flamingo tour at Celestun.  Saw one flamingo in the 30 minute boat ride to where there would be “hundreds, maybe thousands”, some nice mangrove swamps, and an ojo de Agua (fresh water spring bubbling up into the salt water), and finally a dozen or so flamingos at a distance, after a muddy, mosquito-infested walk.  Overall, not too bad, really.