Barcelo Maya Colonial Beach Puerto Aventuras

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... for) this had turned into a torrential downpour and we checked into the hotel up the road which Nadia liked the look of. Turns out that it was a 5* all inclusive place but we managed to get a good rate after bartering with the manager for about half an hour. Room was amazing with hot tub and they forgot to lock the adjoining room meaning we had 2 rooms, 3 double beds, 2 jacuzzis, 2 huge bathrooms and minibars all to ourselves...one of the best ...

Well, tomorrow officially marks the half-way mark in our 10 week "odd"essy in Mexico. And it has been such a great time! Can't wait for the nest 5 weeks! It's going to be tough missing Thanksgiving with friends and family, but hope to make up for it when we're back home in December! It is hard to believe that we are already ...

From Lisa: Week 2!! What an amazing week!! In the past 7 days we've successfully passed our Advanced Open Water Scuba certification! Woo Hoo!! That involved a deep dive (100ft), navigating underwater by compass, boat skills, learning peak performance buoyancy, and naturalist fish and coral identification. For base underwater monitoring work, Cheryl passed her FISH ID test first try (way to go!!) and I also passed my CORAL Latin names test ...

We are continuing to have a fantastic time. The weather has been amazing except true to form I have become sunburned and lucky for me was reading a magazine while lying on my back and have a distinct line across the bottom half of my face where I am white. Very attractive. On saturday we are going swimming with dolphins, sea lions, stingrays and manatees, not all at the same time though lol. We are excited about that. Then next week we are going ...

We decided to make one final stop before heading to our final Mexican destination: The Caribbean coast. Valladolid is a small, bustling Mayan Mexican town, which is nice, but one day is sufficiente. We arrived quite late yesterday afternoon and once the tropical rainstorm had passed, we headed for a hostal that we heard was good and economical. Because we`d spent the past 2 nights ...

Up early again so on the road to Coba by 0730. The highway towards Coba, just past Tulum, started quite wide -- obviously redone since our last visit. But after about 10km, it became the narrow, pot-holed road without shoulders of our memory. Arrived Coba just as a busload of Italian tourists was unloading. We purchased our tickets and entered the park. Made the decision to NOT visit the close group of structures immediately but to proceed right ...

Today we visited Coba, our first Mayan ruin. It is supposed to be one of the more remote of the commonly visited ruins, and, as we were frequently hiking through the jungle paths alone, I would concur. I'll attach a clip I took while standing awestruck and still in the jungle, trying to capture the birdsong and light filtering through the developing canopy. It's really a very poor representation of ...

Obviously, somebody upstairs felt really guilty about last week. This week has not just been better--Parts of it have been nothing short of magical. We´ve had a few days of great visibility, around 25 meters (80 feet?). In that kind of visibility, I don´t even feel like I´m underwater, I feel like I´m floating around in a sunny room full of coral. On Wednesday, the sea was too choppy to go out, but the weather was gorgeous. This left us new folks (basically the only ...