Blogs from Quintana Roo, Mexico, North America - page 130

After Tulum we went to what I would say was our first non-real tourist Mexican town, Valladolid, about 80 miles from the coast. We both liked it here as it was a very warm and friendly place and what we expected Mexico to be like. We arrived on a week end which was a bonus as they had a mini festival in the local park and it was nice to see all the locals out with the family enjoying themselves and having a great time. It felt like a real nice community and we were made to feel very welcome which was nice. They had lots of food stalls, which were great and beyond cheapness nothing over a pound. I always thought I would never have anything hotter than a curry but Mexican food bring heat ... read more

Life here is so relaxed that it´s hard to know what we have been up to since we last wrote. Also this is the first entry that I write alone, having left Henry A at Cancun Airport this moring (which was quite an achievement considering we were still drinking on the roof of our hostel at 5am!) Cancun Airport on a Saturday morning is not a place you want to be hungover in...a drawled shout of “HEY TEX, HURRY UP OR WE´LL MISS OUR FLIGHT” can really grate. Anyway, I managed to book my flight to Cuba... another massive performance - of course you could only get the cheap fare from the office in town and not the desk in the airport...3 hours later of wrong directions I had booked ten days in Cuba (from the ... read more

can i tell you all ITS VERY HOT...just like me..you know.. spent 3 days and 2 nights i cancun and man im sooooooo glad to be out of there.. met up with this swedish chick pernilla at a hostel...went out first night and got a feed for 8 pesos..which is NOT alot... next day i went with a Nico, german guy whos all fluently aussie like me.....and Blair ...just a tipical english bloke really..we went to Chitchen itza..which is probably one of mexicos most famous maya ruins..might be the biggest one but i dont know....that was pretty cool...walked around all day took heaps of photos... it was hot as hell but it was cloudy so that was probebly good.....sweattin like pigs we were again.... when we got back to cancun we went to this resturant nico ... read more

Trying to feel how it is to be a Maya. It's just amazing to know that a population like this still exists nowadays! After a few hours, we arrived to Chichen Itza, a Mayan temple surrounded by soldiers' shelter, game field and astronomy. There were something like 50 000 Mayans living there with all the rituals and sacrifices between the 11th the 15th century if I have a good memory. That day was fucking hot, and we also had rain for 10 minutes (the only moment we had rain since we came!). I could discovered that their belief in their god (the sun) was really strong, it was mainly related to the weather. As they need to feed the population, there was a lot of pressure on agriculture and so they pray and made sacrifices to ... read more

Well, that day wasn't sunny at all, so I decided to move and see other things than Cancun. We took a small bus for 35 pesos to Playa del Carmen, another beach, and a different one actually. After an hour or something, we arrived at the 5th avenue, it's a shopping avenue where there's a lot of restaurants and many shops selling swimmwears and the same stuffs as in Cancun, you know silver, sombreros etc... The beach wasn't as beautiful as in Cancun. I used to see white sand instead of yellow one. What is good is you can't find huge buildings hiding the sea, it's more typical, but anyway, very touristic!... read more