Akumal
Travel Blogs from Akumal, Mexico
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Day Twelve
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
... 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.)
... 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
... 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?
... 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
... 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!
... 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 ...
Day Eight
... 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
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
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
... 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
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...
... 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
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
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!
... 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
... 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
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
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
... 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)
... 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
... ;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
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
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
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
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
... 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
... 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
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 ...
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