Blogs from Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico, North America - page 19

Blogger Doug We woke early today but not due to a departure time. I had a shower and packed my pag and then noticed that the music from the night clubs was still pumping outside. Funny thing to be happening at 6am I thought. Turns out Bec was a little too eager and misread the time on my watch. It was actually 3:30am! We went back to sleep. At the real 7am we left to travel by bus to Tulum. We dumped our bags at Hotel de Custado (custody?) on the corner of the main road. Unfortunately, we also dropped off two bags that were not ours. Whoops! In the hurry to get our stuff and due to the laziness of the driver, we removed two bags that were not ours from the luggage bay ... read more

(This entry is a stop on the cruise that is discussed in THIS ENTRY: ) We arrived into Cozumel where we took a (very quick) ferry to Playa Del Carmen. A bus ride later, we arrived at the ruins in Tulum. I think I was expecting to only see a couple buildings, based of images I had seen online, so I was rather suprised at the amount of structures that were present. Tulum is a city with 3 walls and a cliffside/water serving as the 4th wall. There are a total of 7 entrances into the city on those 3 walls. (This is an excellent image I found that maps the structures: CLICK FOR MAP) The building that demands the most attention sits on a hill, the castillo. It was here that they believe the human ... read more

ANGLAIS Time for some sun sand and sea. Home is a thatched wooden shack thing right on the beach. We're doing nothing for a few days. There are ruins nearby and freshwater caves called cenotes to paddle in, but mostly we're doing breakfast, hammock, beach, lunch, hammock, beach, dinner, wine, dark Mexican rum.....breakfast etc. As the shack is costing more than a few pennies, cheap tortilla and barbecued chicken dinners are in order. Eating in places with plastic chairs seems to be the answer. Also wine by the carton at 20 pesos (£1) helps with the budget, but 100 pesos corkage means it makes more sense to drink it in the street. Très chic! On one of our "adventure" days we went to swim in 3 cenotes (limestone caves whose roofs have collapsed and that are ... read more

After the trials and tribulations of Playa Del Carmen, it is good o hit the road again (not the sidewalk) and get to Tulum. Again the photos will have to wait, though for those too impatient I´m sure a quick search of travelblog.org would reveal any number of Tulum pictures. Tulum is just a short bus ride, or in this case a short collectivo ride south from Playa Del Carmen. Hooked up with two americans, Marty and Keith, on the way to the collectivo departure point. Had met Marty up in the hostel in Cancun; hadn´t met Keith before. Ended up sat next to Keith on the collectivo and got chatting about some of my travel plans ahead. He outlined a number of destinations in Thailand I might look out when I´m there. When I got ... read more

Back in Mexico after our wonderful weeks in the somewhat chillier but beautiful Guatemala and the super laidback lifestyle of Belize. Our last night in Caye Caulker had been spent in the local dive "Oceanside Bar" where a local band (which means they were actually two old guys from the US who have settled in San Pedro on Ambergris Caye) It had become a late night (about 2am, which is pretty crazy over here) so our initial plan of taking the 8.30am ferry back to Belize City had failed. The 10am would have to do. And that left at about 10.30 so we were off to a slow start. Next we took a very old looking bus to the border city of Chetumal, and thinking this would be a very short trip (not often the case ... read more