Brompton Bike Tour Across the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico)
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- čas přidán 1. 01. 2022
- In December 2018 we cycled 300 kms from Mérida to Tulum, a tour that took us to six Maya archeological sites and the cities of Izamal and Valladolid. For more info and MAPS of the route, check out these posts:
SIGHTS & LIGHTS IN MERIDA, MEXICO
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CYCLING FROM MÉRIDA TO THE DZIBILCHALTÚN RUINS
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THE ADVENTUROUS CYCLE ROUTE FROM MÉRIDA TO IZAMAL
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IZAMAL TO CHICHÉN ITZÁ - CYCLING THE SCENIC ROUTE
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CYCLING ON MEXICO’S HIGHWAYS - CHICHEN ITZA TO TULUM
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7 TIPS FOR CYCLING ACROSS THE YUCATAN PENINSULA (MEXICO)
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Amazing video!!!! Love it!
Great video. I enjoyed it from start to end. By the way, that sign says “no bicycle”. Obviously it means you cannot ride in there, but perhaps you can push your bike. There are many places in the US where bicycling is not allowed but pushing it is ok.
Thanks! And we should have explained that the "no bicycle" sign was just for a short section, you can ride bicycles throughout the rest of the Coba ruins. I was mad because they wouldn't let us ride our Bromptons, even though we offered to pay. They kept insisting we had to rent their bikes. Our Spanish is terrible so I don't think they understood that we were offering to pay the bike rental fee - even double the fee! - if we could just ride our Bromptons. 😞
vuelvan pronto a mi México ❤
We hope to do so soon!
Nice video, now I want to do this with my Brompton! Where did you stay along the way? Wild camping?
Thanks! We stayed in small hotels in Merida, Izamal, Valladolid, and Coba. We splurged and stayed at the resort in Chichen Itza, which was still way cheaper per night than Cancun or Tulum. We do NOT recommend staying in Tulum - it is five times as expensive as anywhere else and overbooked. For all the details about where we stayed, see this blog post: bromptoning.com/traveling-adventures/cities-sights-on-our-cycle-route-from-merida-to-tulum/
Though we hardly saw anyone else bikepacking, the Yucatan peninsula is a really nice place to bike. Highly recommend!
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Hi!! thanks for the video, you inspired us to make a similar bike trip in the Yucatán peninsula… Did you leave the bikes in the bike racks, in the tourist attractions? If so what security method did you used?
Any additional tips or advice?
Thanks
Hi! If we were biking to an attraction, we would park our bikes in the bike racks with highly secure Abus folding locks. mobil.abus.com/ca_en/Products/Bicycle-locks/Folding-Locks But if we were staying in a hotel nearby, we'd leave our bikes in our room and walk instead.
Have a fantastic bike trip in the Yucatán!
@@bromptoning thanks! Have a great day!
Looks great! Do you have a strava or komoot map for the route? I'm looking into my next bike trip and I think this might be it.
Yes we do! This was our very first trip using Komoot. The app led us astray in a couple places, but Komoot was new back in 2018 and it's better now. We're Heather & Pier (Bromptoning) on Komoot. We did this trip in multiple days.
Merida -> Izamal www.komoot.com/tour/53436535?ref=wtd
Izamal -> Chichen Itza (Part 1) www.komoot.com/tour/53530195?ref=wtd
Izamal -> Chichen Itza (Part 2) www.komoot.com/tour/53530181?ref=wtd
Chichen Itza -> Valladolid www.komoot.com/tour/53600281?ref=wtd
Then we took a bus from Valladolid to Coba because we were wiped after being sick for three days while biking.
Coba -> Tulum www.komoot.com/tour/53815302?ref=wtd
Oh! I forgot that this video shows us riding to the Dzibilchaltun ruins too. That route is here: www.komoot.com/tour/53349729?ref=wtd
@@bromptoning Awesome, thanks! Any tips for the trip?
@@TylerLynn Bring snacks and lots of water because the small towns between the cities are VERY SMALL and may not have places that sell food or water. For example, it's a good thing we stopped at a tiny restaurant with one table in Ekmul (the town before Ake) because when we arrived in Ake we found out it is not really a town - it's just the ruins, a farm, the old hacienda, and a church. Well worth it - the Ake ruins are awesome! - but it was dumb luck that we were hungry in Ekmul and stopped at the one restaurant there before continuing to Ake.
Speaking of Ake, the dirt road shortcut we took was interesting but rough. Dirt roads in this area of Mexico are more rock than dirt. So if Komoot warns you that a road is not paved, consider another route or prepare for a rugged adventure!
Go to pueblo fantasmas misne Balam typed like that in the gps
I did! Looks like if we went straight through the town of Chablekal, north to Sac-Nicté (instead of west to the Dzibilchaltún ruins), we'd have found ourselves some more rocky dirt roads to ruins. I think we need to get some folding bikes with suspension if we're going to do more dirt tracks. ;)