Backpacking through Mexico (PART 2) - Things to do in CAMPECHE, MEXICO.

Backpacking through Mexico (PART 2) - Things to do in CAMPECHE, MEXICO is showing not only the city but also how the Mexican lifestyle is even crazier when you experience it in a city which is not known by tourists...
About our journey:
We had two weeks to travel across the Yucatan peninsula. It would not be possible to do on a budget unless our awesome host in Cancun lent her car to drive while we stayed at her place. She is awesome and always has been :). The Yucatan peninsula has way more than Cancun or Tulun which seem to be the only places there to be known and seen by the tourist. The periodic tourism is not so much of a help to locals as savings in Mexican culture is not popular, so they were really appreciative to us as we were there in the rather quiet season...yet the weather was just as awesome as otherwise...well 365 days of sunshine and awesomeness is the way I can explain Mexico.
We are super grateful to our host in Campeche. Arelis and her daughter are super easygoing, yet curious people who opened there home and shared everything with us. Since the city does not have many tourists, it was easy to find hosts there but that caused us some frustration at first, not knowing who to stay with....well we did the best choice there, indeed. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
This episode is the second stop for us and many to come as this peninsula has so much to show to us!
About Campeche:
San Francisco de Campeche, 19th c. English also Campeachy, is a city in Campeche Municipality in the state of Campeche, Mexico on the shore of the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico. Both the seat of the municipality and the state's capital, the city had a population at the 2010 census of 220,389 and the municipality had a population of 259,005.
The city was founded in 1540 by Spanish conquistadores as San Francisco de Campeche atop the pre-existing Maya city of Can Pech. The Pre-Columbian city was described as having 3,000 houses and various monuments, of which little trace remains.
The city retains many of the old colonial Spanish city walls and fortifications which protected the city (not always successfully) from pirates and buccaneers. The state of preservation and quality of its architecture earned it the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. Originally, the Spaniards lived inside the walled city, while the natives lived in the surrounding barrios of San Francisco, Guadalupe and San Román. These barrios still retain their original churches; the one in Guadalupe is almost 500 years old. (source: Wikipedia)
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