Off the Beaten Path in Campeche
Tips and photos of unusual, out-of-the-way Campeche attractions, posted by real travelers and locals.
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on March 17, 2006
Option one is to use prearranged tours. They leave at regular intervals, and are four hour tours - one hour to Edzna, two hours at Edzna and one hour back. Price in 2006 was 200 pesos per person which included transportation and entry into Edzna but no guides. Personally we didn't favour the tours as we usually wished to spend more than two hours at site.
Option two is to use public transport. There are vans (Combi's) that leave Campeche from the Mercado and travel to the town of Edzna for 20 pesos per person (they do drop you off at the ruin) -- also 20 pesos to return, by the way. The entry fee to Edzna (in 2006) was 33 pesos per person. Although it took a little longer (waiting for the Combi to fill up before it left), this is what we did.
Don't forget to bring liquids, etc. Although the guide book promised a restaurant, there was no food or water there -- even the drink machine was not working. Not only that, but the signs told us not to eat any food at the ruin. We quietly ate the lunch we brought at Vieja Hechicera (the remote temple).
The other difficulty is though the Combi van will bring you right to the ruin entrance way, it does not pick you up there. You have to walk the 1/4 km out to the highway to get picked up (it is the Edzna town Combi you are taking, and the town is a little further away than the ruin).
The accompanying photo was taken with the camera out the front window. That is the aerial in the photo. The locals in the bus with me thought the gringos were nuts taking pictures of the countryside going by.
The second photo, by the way was of a town between Edzna and Campeche. The Combi driver had an errand or two to do, so he stopped in this small town on the way (for about 8 minutes) for a pee and some gas to get us back to Campeche with (drivers seem to run on empty all the time).
on March 29, 2005
