The first open view of our surroundings on the open road for weeks.One of the better stops for cold coconut and pineapple drinks. The lorries are lined up out of view to the right for the restaurant meals. We are enjoying being back in our preferred domain of Mexican prices for locals and not tourist prices for a few days now.
We left the main road to ride 7 kilometres into a dead end village because it was the only accommodation listed.
This is a section of the foundations for the previously mentioned railway line – there is no one working because its a Sunday. Its supposed to be completed by the end of 2023 having been started in 2020; from what we have seen they will do well to finish by 2030 – on one occasion we saw 7 men clearing the bush ( one had a chainsaw and the remaining 6 had machetes).Rolling into Noh Bec – not one of the more prosperous areas, however, very peaceful and quiet consistent with a village of around 2000 people.We were told someone began building this house and ran out of money and has abandoned the project. This is a true story. Olivia ‘phoned ahead and made a reservation with someone so they were expecting us, or so you would think! This is what we discovered on arrival – all shut up and it had not been in business for a while (we never did find out who Olivia made the reservation with).This lady owns the bar opposite the hotel and gave us the unfortunate news about the hotel and then followed up with offering to take us to a couple who rented a room about 3 blocks away.This is the house we stayed in – living room and 3 bedrooms on the left and dining room and kitchen on the right.This is the rear entrance. The couple slept in the room on the right and we were in the room on the left. The concrete block building is the shower/toilet area.The bikes are in the living room for the night. At least they were not interrupting our host watching Clint Eastwood in ‘Joe Kidd’, who sounded really strange when dubbed into Spanish.We were 2 blocks away from a lake so we took the precaution of erecting our own mosquito net over the bed.This was a step up from a few nights ago – the toilet had both a lockable door and a shower with hot water next to it.Our hosts had two monkeys.The local bullring which is only used during March each year.They are hoping to attract tourists to their lake meanwhile the local children are making the most of it.This was one of the best breakfasts we had and all cooked on an open fire.
Mexico and Belize 