The Found World of Quintana Roo

Adventures of a Father/Daughter team trekking the Mayan Coast of Mexico. Wendy Morrill is a research biochemist presently a lab manager for the Maine Institute for Human Genetics & Health in Bangor Maine involved in cancer research. She and her Dad, Richard Bailey, are avid hikers and explorers and recently hiked 450 miles along the coastal Yucatan Mexico, from Cancun to Belize. She would like to raise $5000 of donations for cancer research, once they cross the Central American Border.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

XCassel (or X'Cacel) --is it a real town?

There is a 'town' on my topographical maps that says XCassel. We wanted to get a lunch in this town. We found this pueblo while hiking from Paa Mul to Tulum and needed food and water badly, we might had even stayed in a hotel. But, from the beach, this was all that X'Cacel had: 2 buildings!

And the one local person in this building didn't know where to get water and had no food! Not even a bathroom. This is where we ate lunch: underneath a lean-to, while eating our trail mix and warm water.