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Published: November 14th 2006
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us at tulum
us in front of el castillo. its bloody great to have someone to take pictures of us together! Claire:
after a day of playing on playa delfines in cancun and visiting an iguana infested mini ruin opposite it, we met our tour group in downtown cancun and went out for dinner. the next morning we headed down the coast for an hour to playa del carmen, another tourist type resort. its still quite american here and reasonably expensive for food, etc. we spent the afternoon after we arrived on the beach with a little snorkelling just in the shallows (i found loads of little fishes!) then had dinner with our tour.
the people on our tour all seem very nice and are mainly aussies/kiwis with a swedish couple and a girl from kent thrown in. we have more trouble getting them to understand our scottish accent than we do getting the locals to understand our rubbish spanish!
theres not much to do in playa del carmen that cant be done better and cheaper elsewhere (mainly the snorkelling trips that we're planning on doing in belize) so we are mainly bumming about in town, drinking cocktails and waiting to move on somewhere more exciting.
today ross and i (and another girl called claire from the group) went a
big pyramid thingy
El Rey ruins in Cancun little further down the coast to Tulum, a ruin site right on a beach. the weather was stunning and we had a little wander around the ruins in the sunshine before heading down to the beach there for some swimming. the beach was gorgeous but a bit busy with other tourists. i snorkeled for aaaages but didnt see anything more than a few fish and ross tried out his new goggles. we might have spent a bit long in the water as ross is a bit pink and im lobster style red.... oops!
nicely burnt, we got the bus back to playa del carmen to find the rain hammering down with thunder and lightning to boot so it was just as well we went to Tulum for the sunshine really! (the girls on the tour who had stayed in playa del carmen to laze on the beach seemed highly unimpressed)
thats about all for now other than the cocktails here are fantastic... pina coladas for 2dollars! heaven!
next stop belize (after about 11 hours of travelling!) for paradise islands, world-class snorkelling and hopefully some more sunshine...
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Craig Webster
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Tasty rocks!
I thought you were going to say "these rocks are tasty; we tried eating them..." how big are the rocks? No sense of scale. I'll be visiting there in a few years to do the climbing thing I think ... when I own a plane and can smuggle myself across the Atlantic. Yay! Gorgeous pictures!