Campeche is the state capital of Campeche state on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. The Campeche real estate market has caught our attention and TOP Mexico Real Estate decided to make a discovery trip to find out first hand what is going on in this region. Bob McCain, a good friend of ours who has been working very successfully in the Playa del Carmen real estate market for the past 6 years, invited us out to see some cheap Mexico beachfront real estate!
We left Friday morning and decided that we would take a road “less traveled”. We wanted to see the countryside in the Yucatan peninsula and drove south from Playa del Carmen, passed Tulum, and travelled for another 2 hours until we reached the city of Carillo Puerto. At Carillo Puerto we decided on traveling west across the peninsula leaving the Mexican Caribbean to arrive to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. We needed a map so we began searching the town. Usually a gas station would be a good place to search. Without luck here, we began looking in “papelerias” or a stationary shop. The best we could find was an elementary map of the Yucatan that we had to blow up in order to see the roads. So there we go, 4 hour trip across secondary roads through Mayan country with a black and white blow up copy of a state map.
The Yucatan region is rich in history and ruins from the ancient Mayan culture. You will find world famous pyramids such as Chichinitza, Tulum, Uxmal. But the locals say that there are still thousands of sites that have not even been revealed nor have been found throughout the deep thick jungles. That is very interesting and exciting to think about the many artifacts and articles that are still laying out in the countryside, waiting to be discovered. The history of the Mayans have been examined closely due to their surprisingly advanced knowledge of mathematics and their understanding of the solar system, the sun, Orion Nebula and many other astronomical observations. I picked up a high interest myself on this civilization and started collecting and trying to understand some symbols here and there so I could try to identify and recognize on ruins. Below for example are the symbols used for counting and you can see these symbols on the Mayan calendar. The seed type of symbol represents the 0 and the bar is equivalent to 5. Very interesting.
Our road took us zigzagging through many small villages where we would see the traditional Mayan huts. No corners, but rounded oval walls and thatched roofs.
In one little village we saw in the center square an old church that was built in the 16th century. Haciendas were also seen in the trip which were large plantations of farming communities.
We stopped during our trip at an orchard where many trees for lime and Maymey were being harvested. At the front end of this large parcel of land they had an outdoor, road side kitchen with fold up chairs and tables. They were announcing Maymey fruit, rabbit barbecue food, and roasted chicken tacos. It all sounded good so we stopped and to our pleasant surprise… we had an extremely delicious lunch with Maymey ice cream to round off the meal.
Two hours later, we started to pull into the capital city of Campeche. It was night but immediately we noticed that the downtown area was extremely…. clean. All of the electric wiring had been wired underground and all of the buildings had color combinations that ran the length of the streets. There was not one corner that my wife yelled for me to stop in order for her to take pictures. The Campeche real estate area was looking very exciting as the city was looking very tourist friendly, there were people on the streets and it felt full of life, and the boardwalk along the coast line had people jogging and biking. Campeche definitely had a comfortable inviting curb side appeal.
To see Day 2 visiting the downtown Campeche real estate market
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Thomas Lloyd graduated from Purdue University Krannert School of Management with a degree in Management/Financial Option Investments. He has been living, investing, and working professionally in Mexico for over 15 years. In the summer of 2009, he received the first federally applied Mexico Real Estate Degree and Mexico Professional Real Estate License S.E.P. #5978657. He is the current president of TOPmexicorealestate, you can contact him at (512) 879-6546 or through the company’s web site www.TOPmexicorealestate.com NETWORK
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