Carmen Teresa

... Mal Pais and Santa Teresa. We are staying at Charlie´s Cabinas 100 meters from the beach in Playa Carmen which is halfway between Mal Pais and Santa Teresa. This is certainly another piece of paradise despite it being gringo ville. It´s great how ...

... from the Caribbean to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica!  We were staying directly between Mal Pais and Santa Teresa at Playa Carmen.  Everything about this spot was amazing; cool bars, restaurants, hostels and shops...however it rained the ...

... the weekend i was there. THe area is made up of thre different towns along on long stretch of beach. Mal Pais, Playa del Carmen, and Santa Teresa. The towns are just one road with lots of stores, surf shops, bars, restraunts lining it. THe place was a ...

... there was little more to do than surf. However, we arrived to a rather large town comprising of,  Mal Pais, Playa El Carmen, Santa Teresa and Playa Hermosa. All of these small towns string along the coast making a nice sized town of shops, a thousand ...

... are just in wicker bowls with netting on top, stinky little truckers! ========================================================================================= Part 2 of playa del carmen involves me in spanish school, oh yes i am back in school! The ...

... , surf and catch up on the works in between (new ideas stream in whilst relaxed in paradise!)...  Onto some quick blogging, we are racing through Central America, focusing on the highlights in order to be in Playa Carmen, Mexico for New ...

Everyone raves about the view at the 'Brisas del Mar' restaurant in Playa Carmen. Tonight is our last one in Santa Teresa… tomorrow we are starting our descent towards Panama and we don’t know when the winds will blow us back here. Since our ...

... We managed to find some really nice clothes stores, much better quality than anything else I have seen except probably in Playa del Carmen. Daniela was a really good personal shopper :-) There was a great dress in the first store we went in but I wanted ...

... a firm conviction to move rooms asap.  There wasn't one to be had so after much solicitous effort on C E F's part we moved from Santa Teresa down the hill to Lapa and a fairly basic hotel but with lifts and a bed on the floor. Since Ros could hardly ...

... whilst I was jumping in, over, through, and all too often underneath them (more scars to show I was dragged along the seabed), Carmen was catching rays and turning local heads!! We spent all afternoon there - would have been all day but we spent 2 and a ...

... tent was clearly made for four Peruvian men, not a 6ft 5 Pablo, so we had to engineer some kind of diagonal arrangement with Carmen crammed into a corner so that Pablo´s feet didn´t poke out of the tent and drop off due to frost bite!! 26th April - ...

... open-mouthed, wondering why two tourists were sitting on the back of a Park Ranger Golf Buggy and laughing!! Such a laugh.   The Carmen Miranda museum was a complete shock. This is the actress, who moved to Brazil from Portugal as a child and who ...

... pousada, one night booked in Santa Teresa - a place that had appealed because it had been used for fashion shoots. Secretly I think Carmen wanted to visualise herself in a swanky shoot for ´Elle´ or ´Her´ magazine. To be fair it was stunning with ...

... ; Admission to that museum was only 2 Euros.  The museum has lots of artifacts from the life and times of Saint Teresa.  I thought one exhibit was very interesting; the recreation of her room in the monastery.  It was very spartan.  ...

... tagged along and played in the surf as we made our way down to the beach bar at Playa Carmen. Playa Carmen is at the T intersection that divides Santa Teresa from Mal Pais so we go by it every day but have not stopped at it before yesterday. The beer was ...