When we arrived we tried going to a couple hotels near the bus depot but one was full and the others turned out to be hostels, so we went back to the bus station and risked another taxi's advice. The taxi took us to a pretty cool hotel but told us it would be 300 pesos when it was really 600 pesos. I'm not sure what the deal was -- I know the taxis get a cut for their recommendations as he hung around afterwards for his commission.
The next day we went on another tour. This one went to a cave and to more Mayan ruins: Edzna. I enjoyed this tour much more because we didn't have to go on a bus and there were only two other people with us: an old couple from Mexico city who were interesting and somewhat eccentric. The ruins were great and there weren't any knick knack dealers nor millions of other people -- only a couple other tourists and a handful of workers doing restoration.
The tour guide was great and described the local agriculture we saw on the way there as well as the cave and archeological site.
When we got back to our hotel we discovered that we were in the same hotel as the old couple. That was a funny coincidence but not the first. We went to a restaurant later on for supper and they somehow chose the same one. The old fellow saw us in the restaurant and came up and said it seemed like we were following each other.
After the meal we took a little tour on a tour-trolly (which had an unusual number of Russians on it) around the city. At about 75% of the way through the tour we saw the old couple at a street corner. We had a good laugh and waved to them -- it turns out they were lost and the old guy was asking us where the hotel was. Emma pointed him in some direction but we later discovered that we didn't really know where we were. Fortunately they managed to get back to the hotel.
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