These Are The Best Places To Visit In Merida, Mexico – Hand Luggage Only

If you want to know the best things to do in Merida in Mexico, this is the post for you because the very next day, i.e. on our second day in Merida (after our first evening at La Negrita) we started the day poring over our plans to visit the city as we had breakfast.

I realise now that this is one of my favourite things to do when we travel – long leisurely breakfasts while making a list of all the places I want to visit.

There’s just an extra level of excitement that comes from being in the destination while making these plans.

Also, you get the perfect opportunity to double-check your plans with the locals on-ground who can add a lot more context to the plans.

So after a two-hour breakfast (fine, it was more like a 2 and half hour breakfast), we got ready and headed out to explore Merida.

Our first stop was the Museum Palacio de la Musica which was actually not on my list of places to visit but seeing as we were walking past it, we just decided we might as well check it out.

The original place that was due to be our first stop was The Rectory of Jesus of The Third Order (or Rectoría El Jesús Tercera Orden) which is right next to the Museum Palacio de la Musica.

Alas that was actually closed inside so all we could do was appreciate it from the outside.

With that, we carried on to the main area where a lot of the sights you’d want to see are in and that’s the Grand Plaza.

The main cathedral is here, as well as some of the palaces so even if you don’t go anywhere else in Merida, this is one place you have to visit.

We actually started off our visit here with Museo Casa Montejo which is a 16^th century palace that’s one of the oldest buildings in the city.

It’s not overly huge inside, at least not the parts you can visit and it’s free to visit.

It has a lot of interesting artwork in here as well as some revealing key parts of Spain’s colonial history in Mexico so it’s really important to visit.

The dining room is arguably one of the most impressive parts of the architecture here as it’s so detailed, especially the ceiling.

Leave Museo Casa Montejo, we decided to go to Palacio Municipal de Mérida which is effectively the town hall.

This was a bit of a mistake in parts, partly because (and I think a lot of this was lost in…