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The Redditor's guide to Merida!

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 This guide is intended as a complement to  The always up-to-date Redditor's Guide to the Yucatan State!  And it's a work in progress by our community at /r/yucatan. Narwals and bacon , my dear redditors! (do we still use that?) This guide is intended to help fellow redditors visit our city. As with the general guide to the Yucatan state, This text is mainly intended as guide on alternative, less visited and locals-only experiences. It will contain some reccomendations on mainstream or hight-end tourism, but it's not it's main objective.  First, some basic facts about Merida Mérida (Yukatek Maya: Hoꞌ) is the capital and most populous city of the Mexican state of Yucatán, as well as the seat of the municipality of the same name. It is located in the northwest of the state in the southeast of the country, a region of which it is the most inhabited urban area and its main social,  educational and financial center. According to the 2020 Population and Housing C...
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The always up-to-date Redditor's Guide to the Yucatan State!

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  Note that this guide is NOT about the Yucatan Peninsula as a whole,  but specific to the Yucatán state! But isn't all Yucatan? From wikipedia: "The Yucatán Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Yucatán) comprises the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo"  Visiting us? Welcome to the redditor's guide to the ancient land of The Maya! This text is mainly intended as guide on alternative, less visited and locals-only experiences.   Because of that reason, you won't see much info about places of mass tourism like Puerto Progreso or Valladolid. Wel'll provide tips about less visited yet still awesome locations instead. First, some historic background: Altough there is no consensus about how the land got it's name, the "i can't understand your language" theory is more myth than reality. The best explanation is that the “Yucatán” word is an Spanish term coined when Bartolomé Colón found some Mayan traders canoeing at the caribbean sea,...
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