My choices were short day to La Venta or a long day to Cardenas. I intended to to the latter, but a sign indicating an archaeological site in La Venta was enough for me to abandon the long push and quit in the early afternoon before the museum closed. I’m glad I stopped, but mostly because it will mean an easier day tomorrow and not because the museum was awesome. It wasn’t, with most of the monuments fiberglass replicas, the originals hauled away to museums in Mexico City and Villahermosa. But the site was real, and a few stone originals remain, so I’m glad to have seen it.
I had decided to ride up to Merida, but I’m finding being in the humid lowlands uninspiring and feel pulled to higher ground. So now I’m heading to Chiapas.
I joined rush hour traffic going across the causeway out of Coatzacoalcos. It wasn’t too bad, the amount of cars kept speeds low
Eduardo is on day three of his adventure through the Yucatán peninsula, Belize and Guatemala before returning home to Guerrero. He gave me stickers from his bike club
The nice hotel was fully booked, the second had terrible beds so this is where I’m staying. No hot water, no air conditioning but decent Internet and it has a fan. $17.
