Blogs from Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, North America - page 37

The first night in Mexico was definitely an interesting one. After missing the bus from Cancun to Playa, I took one of the famous crazy Mexican cabs. We made it to Playa, two hours later, and I got checked into my hostel. There was only one other person in the dorm, a guy named Ben. He immediately put my travel experience to shame by telling me about the 100 countries he had visited in North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. He was from Perth, Australia so hes got about every contintent covered. He had been away for 2 years traveling, which is way too long for my taste. He ended up in the hostel I had chosen because he had to leave the last one in Playa at 2AM because of hundreds of bed ... read more

Buen Viaje which literally means good travels. We have been here about two weeks and have a few more to go. We have had some really, really rainy weather but that is what happens when your at the Caribbean coast during hurricane season. The rain has been awesome with heavy, hot and windy down pours, how liberating to the soul. These crazy storms would be called squalls by the proper sailor. Everyday is another day in paradise as you look out and see the sea and all it’s magical colors and tones even with heavy, dark cloud cover. With all the waves and churned up seas snorkeling has only happened once, however it is perfect weather for boogie boarding and boy are we enjoying the “like totally tubular” waves we have surfed with my uncles body ... read more

September 19th started out with heavy rain on Caye Caulker and last preparations for leaving on our part. I exchanged my flipflops (my best friends on my travels!) for my sneakers, which were ruined since the ATM-Cave anyway, put on a raincoat, wrapped my backpack in a garbage bag and stepped out into the rain with my fellow travellers, to catch the water-taxi to Belize City, our first stop on the long stretch to Playa del Carmen / Mexico. We didn't need to hurry out into the rain, though - it turned out the first water-taxi of the day wasn't running for some mysterious reason, so we had to wait for an extra hour. By then it had stopped raining, though, so most of hung out at the dock, took some last goodbye-pictures of the island ... read more

Hi all, When I last wrote, I was in a town called Flores in Guatemala, about which the least said the better. Our hotel was very grotty, run by very lazy staff, and our sink had a leaky pipe so the bathroom floor was sopping wet. Gareth (my roommate) and I had a bit of a nightmare with our laundry. We gave it to reception at 2pm on the Saturday and were told it would be ready on Sunday morning, but Gareth spotted it still hanging on the line at 9pm, dripping wet (it had started raining at 5 pm and our washing was still hanging out!). We finally got it back at 10pm, not particularly clean or dry. Needless to say we didn´t pay them. We got up the following day at 2.45am to view ... read more

So I´ve spent the last 10 days exploring the Yucatan peninsula. In hurricane season. Luckily I didn´t experience one myself but we were told to expect rain everyday and so we´ve actually been extremely lucky and hardly had any. Although the weather does have a habit of going from bright sunshine to torrential rain in the space of a minute, which unfortunately I discovered on my walk to the internet café this morning. The tour started off in Cancun and there isn´t much to say about the place - it has a very westernised hotel strip stretching for about 10 miles where all the McDonalds are located. We were staying downtown which gave us a slightly more authentic experience but I still managed to find Burger King. We only stayed one night before heading off to ... read more