We had been wanting to explore Merida and a cruise seemed like a good way to see a little bit of it. It’s a nice city. Very clean and safe with a beautiful park in the middle of it. We did a tour that included the Monumento a la Patria. Unfortunately, it is scheduled to be cleaned but for now was covered in graffiti.

Walking around town we visited the Cathedral de San Ildefonso, the oldest cathedral in the American continents! Legend has it that if you walk through the main, center entrance of the church all your sins are automatically forgiven. Sadly, this door was closed when we visited and we had to enter through the side entrance (maybe half our sins were forgiven???).

After walking around a little more we got lunch at Casa Maya. The place was really cute but the tacos were just okay.