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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#602 - Travel to Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Hear about travel to Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula as the Amateur Traveler talks to Tommo & Megsy from foodfuntravel.com about their recent homebase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

0:08.0

in my passport photo.

0:11.0

Amateur Traveler episode episode 602. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about street vendors and

0:17.6

Flamingos, cathedrals and caves, Mayan, and sonotes, as we go to Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

0:29.6

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. With no further ado, let's talk about the Yucatan.

0:39.0

I'd like to welcome back to the show Megzi and Tomo of Food Fun Travel.com

0:47.4

who've come to talk to us about the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

0:52.1

Welcome back to the show.

0:53.0

Hi, thanks for having us.

0:55.0

And I say welcome back to the show.

0:57.0

They were on episode 457 talking about travel to the island of Subu and the region around that in the Philippines.

1:05.4

Last time we talked to them, but you have now been spending quite a lot of time in Mexico.

1:10.5

Yeah, we hit up a few other destinations between the Philippines and Mexico, but we've actually been hanging out here for about a year, which is crazy in digital nomad terms, but it's been a really amazing experience.

1:23.6

And food fund travel is the new name for your site.

1:26.6

That wasn't the name that you had last time you were on but we won't mention the old name because

1:30.0

it's just going to confuse people.

1:31.6

Yeah, we used to be budget travel, but now we really

1:34.8

focus a lot more on food travel. So we are food fun travel. And fortunately, we're talking about

1:40.4

the Yucatan. Food will come will come up yes some good options there why

1:45.1

should people go to the ukatan firstly I suppose the main reason that's going to

1:49.4

come to mind is the the myan history so this was the real Mayan heartland around here, into Belize, into the north of Guatemala.

1:58.0

That ancient culture before Spanish colonization left a huge influence on this region and as we said the food

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