Ruta Puuc

The Ruta Puuc is something that the tourist board dreamed up. Puuc is a particular subculture or style of Maya. There is a highway south of Merida that cuts through a Puuc area and makes visiting some of the Puuc sites not so much of a hassle. In fact there is a bus service that runs a Puuc route that I took advantage of to visit the five main sites: Labná, Xlapak, Sayil, Kabáh, Uxmal. That's the order we visited too. Minus the locals that were just going from point A to point B there were probably 15 of us ruin hopping. Uxmal was the last stop and I almost missed the bus while I was buying a shirt. That site would have been easy to return from at least. The others not so much.