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From his ramshackle shop, former baseball player Antonio “Negro” Aguilar provides information, sells sports goods, and rents out cheap rooms and bikes at low rates.
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Ticul produces huge quantities of ceramics. This family-run store stands out for the owners’ skills and careful use of traditional and even ancient Mayan techniques.
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Isla’s main street, and its main drag for leisurely browsing. Here and in parallel Av. Juárez small shops offer painted wooden birds, original T-shirts and local shell and coral jewelry.
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This semi-official handicrafts market is packed with stalls selling every kind of Yucatecan and Mexican craft work, some of it excellent, some rather tatty.
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Valladolid’s main street has everything a country town should: shoe stores, electrical shops, barbers, and stalls selling fruit and herbal medicines.
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Campeche’s state handicrafts store has ceramics, embroidery, basketwork, and many other top quality items that are beautifully displayed.
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The Yucatán state handicrafts store has high-quality local work, with many beautiful, usable things especially in textiles, basketware, and wood.
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Not a plush modern mall but a rambling jewelry and handicrafts bazaar, a few steps from the Forum. In among its many stalls you can find fine traditional craftwork, as well as a lot of junk.
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A little hat shop opposite the market, with a very friendly owner who will show you piles of handmade panamas in all sorts of styles and sizes.
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The best local boatmen’s cooperative has a kiosk on the waterfront, just left of where the Tizimín road runs out. They work with the nature reserve and have good boats and experienced guides (see Río Lagartos).
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