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Campeche, Pomuch, and Whole Lot of Dead People

I'm in Campeche.  I'm having breakfast with the owner of the house I'm staying at.  She has dug out maps, history books, and magazines, to show me what I might do while in Campeche.  She is an amazing woman. Originally from Mexico City, she came to Campeche five years ago, fell in love with a house and bought it.  She rents out rooms, to make up for the expenses.   Campeche is the most beautiful city I've seen.  It has a fortress that surrounds it, built hundreds of years ago, as a defense to keep pirates out.  The entire interior of the fortress was named a UNESCO heritage site, almost 20 years ago.  Each building inside the city wall is...

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