Ocean Maya Playa del Carmen

... crazy or what!

The next morning we signed up for a 1/2 day, 3 stop boat trip (see picture) to go snorkeling. The water is very clear and blue with may different types of fish, It was a great day!

Our last day we took a cab to the “Money Bar Beach” (I guess they call it that because the price of the drinks) and enjoyed a day of tanning and some snorkeling.

We next moved south to Playa del Carmen (about 1 hour drive), originally a small fishing town, tourism began with the passenger ferry service to Cozumel, an island across the Cozumel Channel and world famous scuba diving destination.


While passing through, many people realized that it was a nice place to relax away from the crowds of Cancun with the same quality beaches and turquoise waters. Based on the hurricanes damage since ...

... geworfen haette.
Mein Plan fuer heute ist dann auch gescheitert. Ich habe mich mit neuem
Pareo und Taucherbrille auf den Weg zum Strand gemacht. Ãoeber dem Meer
tuermten sich weit draussen hohe Wolken, die innert 10 Minuten ueber
meinem Kopf zu einem Wolkenbruch ausholten. 1 1/2 Stunden unterm
schuetzenden bananenblatt spaeter habe ich mich dann entschieden den
Rueckzug anzutreten. Bin klitschnass im hostel angekommen! Jetzt ...

"They're tryin' to drink all the punches
They all may lose their lunches
Tryin' to cram lost years into five or six days
Seems that blind ambition erased their intuition
Plowin' straight ahead come what may.                        J Buffett   "Cowboy in the Jungle"

Five days in and no blog.  What can I say ...

... have a gazillion tourist stores and franchises such as Mcdonalds, Burger King, Subways etc. And every night is Saturday and also ladiesnight. Who thought up of free drinks for girls from 2300 -0200 must not want to make a lot of money but I am not complaining. I was supposed to stay only two nights but the girls in my hostel convinced me to stay two more and seeing as I am not ...

... s shaved head and his body in general; the list could go on. That night we met some Mexican dude who took us to a nearby club. It was actually pretty cool - the usual mix of dancing and drinking etc - but with the twist that every 10 minutes a gay looking boyband would hit the stage and thrust their hips around to the vocal delight of all the screaming girls (and secretly to the less vocal delight of yours truly.....don´t tell anyone). Despite this persistently annoying interlude we had ...

... trip home reluctantly. Mark had to go into town to get the tire repair before turning in the car the next day and while he waited he found one of the great massages ...

... about a buzz-kill! So we scamper, hop, and (I) cuss our way across the highway to wait for a southbound ride. Once again, it is about a 5 second wait. Now I know what your thinking, "Hey Dan, what about that stop in the Cyber Café?" Yeah, that thought crossed my mind too as we're tooling south on 307. Oh well, there are a number of internet café's in Tulum pueblo which we saw the other day. So as soon as we hop off the ...

... you don't really know which flight you are going to get and you will be left with very little time for preparation - what places to see and what spots to avoid is hard to make out in 24 hours for your destination to be from pretty much all hard core tourist locations around the world. Well, it propably means to stay away from all of them and go off ...