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Amongst the sun worshippers
... in front of us. On the horizon were the concrete skyscrapers of the island of Cozumel and nearly every day there were a couple of cruise ships moored nearby. Motor launches transferred the passengers ashore and we watched as they disembarked at the jetty and were marshalled into groups according to the excursion they had chosen for the day. There were jet skis zipping back and fore, dive trips embarking for the reef and tourists being ferried out to ...
No change
... igual para todos, longe de extorsões (já tinha saudades de civilidade em relações comerciais inter-continentais, devo confessar). “Ai tens uma mochila do tamanho de um anão, com um outra mais pequena, quase mais pesada que a primeira (que transporta um cadaver, pelo menos a julgar pelo peso)? Não há problema, o anão não paga mais por isso”. Sempre me lembro da viagem para Pushkar, na India, quando queriam (e conseguiram) cobrar mais 16 ...
My class and salsa
... On Tuesday the school put me in a "class". However, my class only consists of one other student, Gabriel (20 years) from Switzerland. He is really nice and fun. He has been here 3 months already. And he is a heartbreaker (un rompe corazon, as I learned this is called in Spanish). He has lots of mexican (girl-)friends and ...
Playa del Carmen, Cancun, and meat, meat, meat!
... make sure you have the straw or spoon (thick daiquiri) the other may have forgotten. There is an absolute feast of a salad/seafood/veggies/cheeses/side dishes to more than fill you up. But save room because the important part of the meal is yet to begin. The waiters bring skewers of all different meats and slice off as much as you like. Be Careful! There are 21 varieties and you want to sample a slice of as many as your stomach can handle. We tried: ...
Xcaret
... fresh oxygen in. I thought the experience was way better than the snorkeling we did yesterday. They let us touch some of the sea life and the fish were swimming all around us.
We tried to take in as much of the park as we could. The Mariposa area was pretty neat. I have never been around so many butterflies. We saw monkeys, jaguars, pumas, and many other types of animals.
At the end of the day, there was ...