Inside the cave
Of our many travels around Yucatán, one of the more unusual was to see the cave at Loltun. We went with our California friend Jeffery, one of the few times we've traveled with someone else. Jeffery took this photo of Victor and me at Loltun:
Loltun is hard to get to, or at least it was in 1994. From Mérida, the closest we could get by bus was Oxkutzcab. That took well over an hour, and we were still about 7 km from Loltun. We hired a car to take us to the cave.
The cave is great, worth the trip. (For more photos and details, see, for example, this write-up.) Because it's remote, there were few other visitors. As we left, I spotted this sculpture, part of El Culto Falico:
Finally, we were faced with how to get back to Oxkutzcab! We waited a bit to see if any car might arrive, drop off passengers, and be available for us. After a while, Jeffery convinced us to try hitchhiking. To my surprise, that pretty quickly worked. When a truck driver stopped, Jeffery, whose Spanish is good, explained what we wanted. The truck driver said we were welcome to join the vegetables he was hauling. We hopped in and got back to Oxkutzcab. I wish I had a photo of us among the vegetables. This remains the only time I've ever hitchhiked.
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