Chac Mool Hostel Cancun

We made it to Mexico after 30 hours of travel. We had a great feast of mexican last night while listening to a mariachi band play and the flambe waiters make all sorts of desserts, coffees and lobster. It felt great to sit in the humid heat and be on vacation.

My pina coloada was the length of my arm! Watched Buffalo clobber ...

Sooo......

We heard from the people at our Hostel that we would not like Cancun beacuse it was too touristy. I figured how bad can it be, it should have a nice beach, I can drink beer and walk around and look at stores.

Wrong! We eventually stopped going to any stores because the people were too aggressive trying to sell you things. This is the only time this happened to us in Mexico. It was driving us insane we ...

The alarm went off at 7 a.m. and I did NOT want to get up. I need a vacation away from my vacation. It was the last day of our month long trip and we were on a mad dash to squeeze as much into the day as possible. Off to the Gran Cenote, 3.7 km away from Tulum town. Luckily we caught a colectivo headed towards Valladolid that gave us a lift to an ATM and hitchhiked the remainder of the way in the back of a pickup truck.

We were the first ones there at 8 a.m. The sun wasn't out ...

... and were pretty unimpressed hard to beat home and Fiji... There seemed to be a lot of bleaching or just coral damage maybe from the most recent hurricane, there were lots of cool fish though. And we got lunch included BBQ fish very nice! The 20th we hired a little golf cart and cruised the island it only went about 30km an hour so was pretty funny. We also checked out the ruins on ...

... komme på stranden, må man ind gennem lobbyen mv. på et af mega hotellerne og lade som om du hører til der. Det var i sig selv ikke noget problem for mig at spille luksusturist, og på så stort et sted er der INGEN der har noget overblik over hvem der hører til eller ikke. - Dog vil det sikkert blive et problem for Pedro og hans familie fra puebloen at komme forbi på denne måde. - Men stranden er offentlig - No Problemos !

... do something about it like give us extra towels (hotel fully booked so we couldn't move). Eventually we managed to get 5 extra towels (which it turns out were all of their extra towels!). I had happened to mention to my tour leader the previous evening that I wanted to get a copy of the new Harry Potter in English. When I got on the bus in the morning she presented me with a copy that she'd managed to find at the supermarket! So ...

... a bill of 150, 50 and 30 using a calcualator, even after checkin 2 times she wanted 250 pesos until we showed her how to use the calculator. But i guess it was our day to loose somethin, as Kyle got mugged on the bus after fallin asleep, realising later that night that his phone and 100 bucks were gone. He took it well though, and refrained from taking it out on the security guard of one of the resorts that spoils an almost perfect beach, when they yet ...

Cancun!
Una hermosa ciudad, arruinada por el afan de lucro y el turismo desmedido, los hoteles en la playa como una selva de concreto. En este maravilloso lugar entre por primera vez a Mejico, pero esta tan enfocado al turismo que se pierden las tradiciones y costumbres locales. Disfrutamos en familia de las maravillsosas playas, de la comida, de la bebida no pude porque era chico todavia y ni me interesaba. Pero ...