Akumal

Travel Blogs from Akumal, Mexico

Sort by Newest Best first

Day Twelve, Akumal, Q Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day Twelve

A travel blog entry by nwcreolelady

5

Our last beautiful sunrise......and we're packing it in.  It's Going Home Day......boo hoo!  But, all good things must come to an end.  We will forever be touched by our experiences here in the Roo.  We loved it the first time, we ...

Day 8 - The Great Camera Fiasco, Akumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day 8 - The Great Camera Fiasco

A travel blog entry by austxdan

... pretty cool.  That was fast.  I see Keith's posts, and realize that if I had actually used the Cyber Café in Akumal I probably would have grabbed a seat right next to him.  I estimate he was posting as we were downing beers in the rain a ...

Day 7 - Akumal and LG Party (and our 6th Anniv.), Akumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day 7 - Akumal and LG Party (and our 6th Anniv.)

A travel blog entry by austxdan

5

... kill of me, is there?  In seconds that ambulance passes me using the southbound lanes.  Yes, driving in Mexico is fun. We make it to Akumal and park.  Our first stop is Lucy's for some of her highly rated shrimp tacos.  Can they ...

Day Nine, Akumal, Q Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day Nine

A travel blog entry by nwcreolelady

23

... to the turnoff to Coba.  Funny, we are seeing more of these at home but it was the first I'd seen anywhere in Mexico I'd been.  The ruins here are not as popluar as at Chichen Itza but are every bit as important archaeologically.  Built in ...

Day Four - Creative titles, eh?, Akumal, Q Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day Four - Creative titles, eh?

A travel blog entry by nwcreolelady

5

... the list.  The food and service were fabulous!  The atmosphere was great sitting right in the middle of the "real" Mexico eating dinner with the locals.  This restaurant is located north of Constituyentes.  I will make a special trip ...

Snorkel with Julia, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Snorkel with Julia

A travel blog entry by karawilson

2

... where Sponge Bob was playing in Spanish. Julia said, " I'm impressed Sponge Bob speaks pretty good spanish." 2) In some places in Mexico you have to throw your toilet paper in the waste basket because of their spetic systems. Julia asked why. I told her ...

Dominos Amigos!, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Dominos Amigos!

A travel blog entry by karawilson

2

... in Half Moon. Check out the videos below of a Sea Turtle's adventure and many beautiful fish. For those who don't know about Akumal it's a diver and snorkerl paradise! ok folks...that's it for now. love keeping in touch with you all. Shout out to Tim Yag ...

Mexico, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Mexico

A travel blog entry by guruzers

43

. ...

Day Eight, Akumal, Q Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day Eight

A travel blog entry by nwcreolelady

5

... many different kinds of colorful fish. After snorkeling for a couple of hours, we actually got chilly.  I have never been chilly in Mexico before.  We get out of the water and dry off and decide to have the lunch of sandwiches and chips that we ...

Half Moon Bay, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Half Moon Bay

A travel blog entry by karawilson

3
1

Well...we've arrived! The plane trip was ok. I mean ok my kids were not kicking other people's seats but they could annoy me at times. For example Tommy wanted to potty train for the first time on an airplane. Yeah right that's not happening. Sorry ...

Polar Bear Superbowl Splash, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Polar Bear Superbowl Splash

A travel blog entry by karawilson

1

Well...even though we are not in Long Beach right now our hearts are still there and we were thinking of all you polar bears as you jumped into NY's freezing waters yesterday for Superbowl. (we decided in order to participate we must create a video of us ...

New Friends, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

New Friends

A travel blog entry by karawilson

3

... to travel to new places and to meet new people. It just so happens that the people we met while in Isla Mujeres followed us to Akumal. We met up once again and had the children swim and play in Ya Kul. Like I said earlier this is a wonderful place for ...

Akumal, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Akumal

A travel blog entry by sethandkate

1

Much more expensive than anywhere else we've been (in our lives), this small American colony fortunately has a Mexican village just the other side of the motorway. Even so we still had a wonderful time, snorkelling with turtles and rays, watching ...

4 tubes of sunscreen..., Akumal, Mexico travel blog

4 tubes of sunscreen...

A travel blog entry by karawilson

3

... a trip with your family and to steer away from  mega resorts. Happy travels to everyone! If you are looking to stay in Akumal- Try using a Condo service. There is plenty of them! Lol Ka Naab was wonderful and Elio the condo manager helped us get set ...

Happy Valentines Day, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Happy Valentines Day

A travel blog entry by karawilson

3

Happy Valentine's day everyone! All the days are starting to run together I need a holiday to tell me what day it is. Do you realize that people live here fulltime and have this problem everyday? what a problem! Yesterday, was a very relaxing and ...

Day Seven, Akumal, Q Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day Seven

A travel blog entry by nwcreolelady

2
5

Another beautiful sunrise.......and then off for coffee and muffins at Turtle Bay Cafe in our little vacation "hometown" of Akumal.  We did a little shopping afterwards while Mark walked back and picked up the car.  Cute shops if ...

That's coconuts!, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

That's coconuts!

A travel blog entry by karawilson

5

... have to say this town has got me saying , " I heart turtles!" Yesterday, we decided to set up on the beach downtown, Akumal. I've scoped it out before and noticed lots of families and my kids wanted to play. Mission accomplished. We met a nice family ...

Beach camping, Akumal resort, and Scuba diving, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Beach camping, Akumal resort, and Scuba diving

A travel blog entry by missiaaron

5
9

... and the first leg of our great adventure!  We opted to kick off our travels with a trip south of the border to Akumal, Mexico where Aaron's parents were vacationing and the sun was shinning. Let the adventures begin! Tulum / Akumal - 2/22 In a ...

Day Ten, Akumal, Q Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day Ten

A travel blog entry by nwcreolelady

11

Today we visited Xel-Ha, an ecological park for both kids and adults alike.  We've never felt the desire to visit these places when traveling on our own, but with Sara as our travel companion we thought what better time to do this, plus we ...

Day 9 - Back to Akumal, Akumal/Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day 9 - Back to Akumal

A travel blog entry by austxdan

5

We have a clear cut goal for today.  Go to Akumal, meet Keith, get camera, return.  So our first step is to taxi to Tulum Pueblo and hopping a collectivo.  Now before we left Austin I had researched the collectivos.  I was reading ...

Day Six, Akumal, Q Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day Six

A travel blog entry by nwcreolelady

... I suppose now you could just go into Starbucks and buy some.  For me, that sort of takes away from vacationing in Mexico when I end up in a corporate American company though.  You can also find beans in several good restaurants like Cueva del ...

Chasse a la tortue (FR/EN), Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Chasse a la tortue (FR/EN)

A travel blog entry by ccheng

3
8

... Claudia (qui traversait parfois la moitie de la baie pour suivre et essayer d'en attraper une). (English) Every 2 years, the turtles in Akumal bay are checked to see if they still have their tags on, how much they have grown and if they ...

Day Eleven, Akumal, Q Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day Eleven

A travel blog entry by nwcreolelady

2
32

... ;end of the day we were ready for a great meal and decided to spend our last evening at El Cuevo de la Pescador in Akumal.  This restaurant was on our list of places to go, so this was our last chance.  The service and food was ...

CEA Festival, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

CEA Festival

A travel blog entry by ccheng

19

The annual fund-raising festival was a big event for CEA as a significant amount of funding comes from this event alone. We were all excited at first to be part of it, but it didn't turn out to be as fun as it was. Suddenly we were invaded by a group of ...

Day Five, Akumal, Q Roo, Mexico travel blog

Day Five

A travel blog entry by nwcreolelady

28

We woke up hungry and knew it was our last chance to eat at another "must do" on our list.  So we walked north of the hotel a few blocks and towards the beach.  We found La Cueva del Chango down a cobblestone street.  It is such a groovy ...

Lagune de Yal-Ku, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Lagune de Yal-Ku

A travel blog entry by ccheng

Yal-ku est un lagon a une 20aines de min de marche de notre logement. Dimanche un peu maussade, l'orage gronde au loin, « ok Cloclo on va faire un tour a Yal-ku ». On arrive la-bas, ah mince c'est payant. « Ola buen dia, estamos del ...

Kayak Adventure, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Kayak Adventure

A travel blog entry by karawilson

2

Tomas is really starting to like it here. His conversation to himself went something like this..." Are you happy...I'm happy...I love it here!" Yesterday, was just a chill day by the beach. "chill" I mean hang out not cold. We grabbed one of the condo's ...

Diving and Español, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Diving and Español

A travel blog entry by themcallens

1
16

... had been diving in a snotty!!!) which is the worlds third largest cave system (no. 1 & 2 are also in Mexico) - Dave dove through the depths (well 12m anyway) seeing underwater limestone stalagtites/mites and columns, while Kirsten snorkeled ...

Debut du projet a Akumal, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Debut du projet a Akumal

A travel blog entry by ccheng

... de poissons multicolors, raie pastenague, raie aigle et bien sur de jolis coraux. Le centre ou l'on fait du benevolat (centro ecologico Akumal) se trouve sur la plage. Derniere, se trouve un chemin, un petit parking, 2 restos, puis la ou on loge soit a ...

Research dive, Akumal, Mexico travel blog

Research dive

A travel blog entry by ccheng

12

Here are some pictures taken while we were doing our research dive. Voici les photos de nous en train de faire la recherche sur les coraux et les ...

Sort by Newest Best first