Your Walls Already Have Hammock Hooks — Epoche A2
Sleep the Yucatecan Way — Casa Fresca, Mérida Another hot night in May? In Yucatán the answer to the heat is older than the electric fan. Here the hammock is not a garden toy. For many Yucatecan families, it is the bed. Look at your bedroom walls. Most houses in Mérida are built with two metal hooks, the hamaqueros , set into the walls — new houses get them too. Your bedroom is already waiting for a hammock. Cotton hammocks from Tixkokob, from 450 pesos. Woven by hand in the town that lives from hammocks, half an hour from Mérida. Lie across it, not along it. A hammock is slept in on the diagonal. Across it, the body lies almost flat and the back stays straight, and the air moves under you all night. Along it, you fold like a banana. In the morning, lift the hammock off one hook and loop it up. The room is empty again for the day. That is why the old houses here have so many hooks and so few beds. Palm hand fans, 40 pesos. Three for 100. Casa Fresca, Calle 60 between 55 and 57, Mérida. Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. No hooks in your wall? A hamaquero pair, fitted, 150 pesos.