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North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum April 13th 2012

The second dive on that friday the 13th... Also beautiful!... read more
exit area
stalagtite and daylight
view through the water

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum April 13th 2012

Friday, April 13th, entering the Maya underworld... Into a cenote called the temple of doom. Any questions about this coincidence?? I can tell you, it was great and nothing happened to us....... read more
Entry - Temple of doom
Light
exit ladder

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum April 8th 2012

On arrival in Tulum on Sunday afternoon, we checked into the Weary traveller, which is on the main road (which happens to be the highway). Behind the reception there is a rectangular courtyard with a long wooden table running its length. On one side there are dorm rooms, and the outside walls and doors are painted with a brightly coloured mural. On the other side, is the communal kitchen and BBQ, as well as a small bar. At the back of the courtyard, there are a few trees, with washing lines and hammocks strung between them. It looks nice - but the dorms are crowded and the bathrooms aren't very nice - the toilet in my dorm had a corrugated iron door, for example, and there is no hot water. We had a walk around Tulum ... read more

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum April 2nd 2012

April 2nd 2012. My first dives in freshwater - Mexico, Cenote dos Ojos... Cavern diving. One of the most amazing dive experiences ever. The most amazing things are the visibility in these caverns. It is fascinating and amazing. looking through maybe 50 or more meters of freshwater and not really blurry. Just amazing crystal clear water...... read more
playing with shadows
Air bubbles like mercury
cavern ceiling

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum February 11th 2012

Our trip was one of extremes. Not in terms of high adrenaline extreme sports but in terms of a scale of enjoyment. I should have known that what happened when we arrived at Cancun airport would not be the only time I would get stressed out this trip. There are certain things that people should never say whilst at an airport, not even if they are a joke. Whilst waiting to go through passport control a very drunk man struck up a conversation with me. You know what it’s like talking to someone when they are drunk and you are sober, add to that the fact that I had been travelling for 25 hours and to say it was an effort to be polite would be an understatement. As we neared the front of the queue ... read more
Sunrise
My gorgeous wife
Us at Tulum

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum February 2nd 2012

"Experience, Travel - these are as education in themselves" Euripides From the miasmic gloom of London town where nearly everyone wears black or grey, looks a deathly shade of pale, misery etched on the faces as they face the return to work (if they haven’t been made redundant) after the Christmas break to the myriad of colour that is the Yucatan Peninsula - Part Two of my 2011/12 travelling adventure has officially begun. SE Asia, you will not be forgotten but now it is time to look to the next 3 months – travelling and volunteering right through Central America with the most wonderful Sandy Maletschek. From Cancun to Panama City – through Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, (possibly El Salvador) Nicaragua, Costa Rica and finally Panama itself – back to the UK to celebrate both our ... read more

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum January 21st 2012

I had been looking forward to Tulum for months - white sands, Caribbean turquoise waters, hot sunny days - it didn´t disappoint in the slightest. In my reading, I had noted the unwelcome developments and commercialisation of the area, slowly chipping away at its charm. So it was with some surprise that I arrived at my accommodations for the next week and saw how rustic it was. It was a very simple adobe hut with palapa (thatched) roof, a bed, a mosquito net around my bed, mosquito nets and shutters in place of windows but with a private bathroom and hot water. It was not much different from the simple room I stayed in on a beach hut in Thailand 14 years ago, albeit with a 21st century price. The beach itself is the stuff of ... read more
This patch of beach is home for a week
Playa Mambo
Hammock - good for afternoon reading

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum January 14th 2012

Campeche: To Dream Awake, that's what it said on the brochure handed to us at the Campeche Tourist Information Office. Our stay in Campeche had one dream-like feature: our hotel had 500 rooms and we were the only guests! Maybe there was a Legionnaire's outbreak the week before. Other than the brochure, the Information Office had no maps to help us prepare for our drive across the Yucatan peninsula on less-traveled roads. The fellow managing the desk tried to warn us not to take our proposed route. As near as I could translate he seemed to be saying that the roads were very bad. I got the idea that he had never been on these roads himself. Given the lack of maps in Campeche, maybe no one had. Trip Advisor also warned about shakedowns by rural ... read more
Sian Ka'an I
Sian Ka'an II
Sian Ka'an V

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum January 10th 2012

So here I am on my travels once again and this time it’s a whirlwind tour of Central America.My flight took me in to Cancun and it was full of sun loving Brits who would be spending most of the time on the beach – God love 'em:-) My first Destination was Tulum, a couple of hours south of Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. On my first night in Tulum I statyed up as long as I could to get over the jet lag (Mexico is 6 hours behind GMT) but had to hit the sack at 20:00. The next day I was still adjusting to Mexico time and was up very early to hire a bike from the hostel and set off to one of the main attractions of Tulum, the Grand Cenote. ... read more
Grande Cenote
Grande Cenote
Grande Cenote

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Tulum October 15th 2011

15th Oct ’11 Playa del Carmen and joining the trip Well it’s still tanking it down and the pool is nearly bursting its banks! We had to check out of the lovely El Acuario and go to the hotel El Elefanta to join the trip, the hotel is ok but rather dingy and no lovely courtyard pool but it does have a lovely comfy bed so that will do for 1 night. We were forced to spend the afternoon in a little reggae pub as the rain was to bad to do anything else! We met up with the group, who seem a nice bunch there are 16 of us in total. We all went out for a meal at a local Mexican place which ended up with a river running down the middle of the ... read more
Papaya Playa
Papaya Playa
Tulum




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