http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Mexico , Quintana Roo , Playa del Carmen en-us Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:55:40 BST Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:55:40 BST So I finally have some time with a computer and some beer to help me work on this blog correctly. I arrived in Cancun on time at around noon as sheduled and it finally set in that I had not prepared at all to speak spanish. I was forced to chill for a few hours til my buddy Lee came in at 6pm so some Sudokus and a few beers passed the time well. Once Lee arrived we decided to take a bus to Pl http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-329181.html Arrived in Cancun on 5th september...my God it was absolutely scorching Headed straight to Playa del Carmen as we didn't fancy staying in Cancun. Our hotel was called 'Playa del Karma' and it was absolutely gorgeous. It had a small pool and thatched roof cabanas plus we had breakfast included which was prepared by the talented Italian chef Bepe so we fairly landed with this one all for about http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-326117.html My journey from Belize to Mexico turned out to be pretty awful. The bus decided to show up at 11.30am an hour late and despite having paid a first class price it turned out to be a cramped little minibus with no airconditioning so not very pleasant with the sun beating down on us. Still it only took four and a half hours to get to Chetumal in Mexico and I chatted with a guy from Birmingham http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-319918.html We know its been a while since the last entry we've been getting lazy We got to Tulum late on 9th and went straight to bed. The next day we went and saw some more Mayan ruins this time they overlooked the Caribbean ocean and were very impressive. We spent the afternoon on the perfect white sandy beach and in the crystal clear turquoise water. We then had a night out in Tulum which was a quiet http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-313269.html Belize was lovely. Sunny and blue and warm and sandy. But we were running out of time so we headed off back to Mexico. The bus ride from Belize City to Chetumal went without incident. That is apart from when we had to get out at Mexican Immigration no stamp this time and were handed our bags from the roof to carry through ourselves. Being a little bit stupid we presumed this meant we'd arrived a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-305162.html Det er nu nogle dage siden vi forlod turistparadiset Playa del Carmen og vi savner det ikke...kun stranden. Siden sidst har vi ikke oplevet skide meget i Playa.I torsdags blev vi dog inviteret ud af Fogde's meget larmende familie til en restaurant i en grotte. Det endte dog med at vi maatte tage alene derud uden famile. Moren og terrorist babyen havde nemlig vaeret paa 14 timers bustur for at fo http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-300758.html The pictures of our 5 day spent in playa del carman http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-298934.html different hostel different feel and a different keyboard I think this one is a french keyboard where most the letters are in the wrong place and just when i got used to the mexican one oh boy. speaking of french keyboards this hostel everyone seems to be french and most thought we were till they got some blank looks when they are talking to us. this place is not really a hostel it more like a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-297759.html Saa er vi tilbage efter en lidt for lang pause....men desvaerre har vi doejet lidt med fordoejelsen hmmmm. Vores sarte og delikate maver er aabenbart ikke gearet til den Mexicanske cuisine Men ellers har vi det HERLIGT I loerdags meldte vi os paa en tur til oeen Holbox hvor hvalhajerne befinder sig smaa tre maaneder om aaret. Det betoed at vi skulle op foer klokken 4 om morgenen og ud paa en http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-296748.html Jamen Hallo saa ska vi blogge Vi har lige faaet fri fra vores anden skoledag som vi synes har vaeret meget haard da vi egentlig hellere ville paa stranden i morges. Skolen vi gaar paa er surprisesurprise fyldt med skrydende amerikanere som raaber spanglish. Foerste skoledag altsaa igaar ankom vi 1 12 time for sent da vi havde stillet vores ure forkert...og for vild paa vej til skole. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-294076.html So Jeff and I set off blisfully unemployed and homeless to Vanessa Manzano's wedding to Ty Zenter. We arrived after a red eye flight to Cancun via a layover in Mexico City with no sleep no job and no home Vanessa's wedding in Cancun was going to be our first stop off in our 10 month layover After a 2 hour drive to Playa Carmen we arrived at the gorgeous Grand Occidental Xcaret ALL INCLUSIVE http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-292983.html So our journey has begun officially and our first stop before the complete culture shock of Asia was Playa Del Carmen Mexico. We were lucky enough to be invited to Krista's good friend Vanessa's wedding and it was an awesome time. Our overnight flight from LAX to Cancun with a quick stopover in Mexico City wasn't too bad minus the fact that our flight left at 1 am and wasn't really long enough http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-292945.html Happy Father's Day Dad Sorry we were not able to call you. We woke up late went to breakfast before they shut down and came right back to the hotel room and fell asleep. We woke up from our nap when house keeping knocked our our door to clean our room so we left for the beach. We talked about going back to the room right when we're done with the beach and call you via Skype. After the beach my http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-287860.html Sorry I couldn't get online last night we had some Internet issues. Drew and I started our day going to downtown Playa to do some shopping and grab some lunch while watching a Euro Cup 2008 game. After lunch we headed to Tulum before going to his boss' beach house. Scott had a great place right on the water and right next door to a place that charges 100 pesos 10 to snorkel. It didn't cost us http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-287646.html Drew and I woke up early this morning to go have breakfast before heading to the golf course. Lucky for us today was the nicest day so far. The golf course was so awesome a couple holes were right on the beach. We're back now and will relax until we go to dinner. I'll send pictures if anything exciting happens at dinner. Talk to you later http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-287001.html This morning I had a charity event to go to. We split into teams of 5 each with their own color bandanna. The event was building bicycles for poor kids many of which walk 23 miles a day to get to school and the contest was who could build it the fastest. we only had 4 people on my team. When we finished building the bikes they surprised us by announcing that the kids were actually on site at http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-286603.html Day 58 7th MayWe wake up very early AGAIN are we sure we are on holiday to spend the whole day travelling along Belize in order to pass the border with Mexico and being in Tulum for dinner.We leave Placencia at 6ish with our new dutch friends Joost and Shanna and we reach Belize City using two different buses the first one had very funky RB music and was full with local Rasta people half a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-275557.html Sonntag 20. April 2008An diesem Tag hatte Sergio leider keine Zeit mehr doch sein Freund Alejandro auch Tourguide hat sich bereit erklrt mit uns 2 und noch einigen anderen Mdels aus Mexico City eine Privattour zu machen. Es ging nochmal nach Tulum zu den Ruinen bzw. an den Strand. Natrlich kamen wir wieder gratis rein. Danach hatten wir ein gutes mexikanisches Essen und dann ging es auf http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-269482.html Well our Mayan Adventure has finally come to an end. We have made some great friends along the way and our group leader Martin did a fantastic job getting us safely through 3 countries in the last 22 days. Our final stop was the Mexican tourist town of Playa del Carmen. This place looks to be built for the thousands of American tourists who jump of a cruise boat buy some souvineers then tell http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-265494.html 27 February 5 March Seems like a long time to spend in such a touristy place but all will become clear27 February We arrived in Playa after a long day travelling left Caye Caulker by boat at 6.30am with all the high school kids Then more chicken buses which even took us across the border we had to get off go into a hall without our bags and exit Belize then back on the bus for 5 minutes ge http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-264141.html More pics from the wedding. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-261805.html The wedding was absolutely beautiful The ceremony took place on a balcony over looking the ocean. Pics can not caputre it...I post them anyway. Having a great time love to all. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-261580.html We had dinner with almost everyone here for the wedding.........25 of us http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-260789.html Hi EveryoneWe are all doing well but very busy. I am enclosing some pics from the last day. What a great place to have a wedding. Miss you all. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-260780.html Ok a little status update. I've been in Playa del Carmen for about 67 weeks now although it feels a lot shorter. It took me almost two weeks to find a job and at the end I had almost given up on Mexico. But eventually I got lucky and walked into a dive shop the day after one of their instructors had quit. So I got a job freelancing in this relatively small dive shop Diversity Diving owned by http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-260745.html We are here Jer and Renee have NOT been seen all day...Apparently they are enjoying the honeymoon suite. Just kidding. We spent the day traveling and the late afternoon at the pool. We have scheduled our tours and spa adventures. Now we are headed off to eat. It is SO beautiful here. Warm tropical...paradise. Jer and Renee are excited to have the guests arriving and are great hosts. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-260141.html As a memorial to my grandmother who died in the Fall my parents decided to have a family bonding event. That event took 13 of us to Playa del Carmen south of Cancun for 3 night. After countless hours of research trying to find a date that worked for all we settled on January 31 through Feb. 3rd. The trip included my parents of course Lisa and her fiance Nate Jeff and his wife Amber m http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-251391.html 1. Contact cases are the new toothbrush. When you're packing and ask yourself if you forgot anything your first thought is toothbrush. That instinct paired with my oral hygiene OCD led to having two toothbrushes but somehow not remembering one of my many contact cases or bottles of saline. Sounds easy enough to fix but everyone in Mexico must have 2020 vision because none of the pharmacies o http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-248032.html So i got up this morning just after eight and was a little comatose at first and i spoke to Brian an american guy i met when i first turned up at the hostel and well this traveling has sent my dates and times right of the radar and so it turns out today is the 19th and i get my shuttle from Playa Del Carmen tomorrow and its an early start and the buses could be a risk and so i decided to head to P http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-248019.html Right everyone sorry for the lack of updates recently. I don't have any excuse I'm just plain lazy. I have left Utila now as some of you may know. It only me four months to leave the Rock. Utila wasis great but it was time to move on and try something else. I had a great time on Utila and I would like to express my gratitudes to all the people I met there. Now let me tell you guys why I staye http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-248011.html