Acuario Tulum

After a boat journey, 2 busses, a taxi, Mexican boarder crossing, another bus then another taxi, we arrived at Tulum about 1am and found a hut made of branches on the beach. By this time the hurricane must have taken a turn away from Belize and decided to head here instead so the hut probabaly wasnt the best choice as we could have been blown away!<br><br>Woke up the next morning and looked a bit overcast. After breakfast (which we got away without ...

... I am a Daquiri not a Margherita girl! I bought some fruit and avocado (of course) with lime and we ate bowlfuls at the hostel. Shane had burned himself to a nice lobster shade so we obtained some aloe and he doused himself in that for the next couple of days.<br><br>The next morning we got up early again (not hard when its warm and bright from about 6.30am) and went to the ruins of Tulum.<br>We didn&#8217;t go with a tour and saved a HEAP of money. The ruins are among jungle ...

... And we are dropping down, backwards, into a part of it. Shall I say that I was just a little apprehensive about falling backwards 8m, into a pool of water below. The first drop, into a sitting position just beyond the rim of the opening, is the worst part of it. At no point did I feel unsafe, though. The guys in charge of the safety ropes and guide lines did a fantastic job, making me feel like I was in charge of my own descent and pace, but keeping ...

... t exactly a refresher course. I'd always though that cave diving would be the most petrifying as there really isn't much of an escape route to some air if necessary... Despite all of this I was quite excited. We headed back to the beach for an hour or so of sun and sand before having to get ready for our dive. In total we were to be 4 divers - Alex, two men from the Czech Republic and myself. We were picked up by Antonio who thankfully wasn't going to be our instructor for the dive ...

... that led to the lagoon. We continued down the road a bit afterwards, and on our way back, we stopped and hopped in the ocean for a dip. Frank got fried. SPF 15 my foot. For dinner, we went to Luna Maya on the beach. It was a lovely restaurant and we had a great meal, but halfway through we were both dead to the world. We both actually put our heads on the table at one point ...

... ll be able to ask some questions (although it does take us 5-10 minutes to create a question or sentence), the chances are slim that we´ll understand the answer, unless it´s sí, no, or no, se! Our weeks have consisted of 5 hours in class studying, followed by a couple hours of homework along with the mandatory lie on the beach and swim in the sea (when it hasn´t been raining, which has been far too frequent of late). When ...

... for kids and knock-em-down can and throw a feathered dart at the balloons and win a picture of Jesus kind of games. Spanish pop music was blaring and most people were dressed from adult supre`. Photography was not allowed here because it was all a little dodgy with bootleg CDs and DVDs the big hit. There was a rodeo in the middle of the whole thing but no bulls tonite. All the men congregated around a central square and drank beer all night. Nadine ...

... food in the cart as well. We need to eat too. As the cashier was putting through our purchases he was placing our liquor to the side. Confused, we asked if there was a problem. This is when we learned that alcohol sales were not allowed until 9:00am and we were 20 minutes too early. We snacked on a muffin and chatted to pass the time until our alcohol was ready for sale. It took us a bit of time to find room in the van for all of our new bottles, but we ...

... from Cancun to Tulum is very comfy though, so we eventually rocked up to El Paraiso beach cabanas in not too bad shape. El Paraiso had been recommended personally as well as in Footprint etc, but although the rooms are perfectly nice and the beach is beautiful, our gringa charms are so far not working on the Mexicans as the staff have proved to be completely unhelpful... Must try harder! They also don´t do breakfast (moan moan) and the restaurant is only open ...

... We sleep in Yun-Kax hotel (Corregidora Av. number 87): excellent! The dinner every day was marvellous ... Although i was determined to taste 'Tamal' and I did it ... but it is horrible ... arrgg. Yaxchilan and Bonampak offers a solitary and beautiful visits. Misol-ha is a fall where taking a bath and Aguas Azules has a impressive landscape. Finally the Bec river route ...