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Isla Holbox, Mexico

One morning while talking with whoever was at the same table as I was over tea and toast I found out that they too found Mujers to be oppressively overbearing with fat white tourists in tank tops.

They said they were going to Isla Holbox (hol-bosh) geographically nearby but unconnected by coastal roads making it a three to four hour trip from Cancun. That sounded exactly what I was looking for so I packed by backpack in twenty minutes and got on the next ferry to the mainland, followed by a minibus to the main terminal, a bus to the Holbox ferry and then said ferry to a blissfully serene island.

Lazing on the beach, hanging around in hammocks and casting into a lagoon of fish after puttering across the island on a golf cart over sand roads made the time fly by.
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Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Over the few days I spent in Tulum I went to the beach and didn't do much else. After hearing less than flattering reviews of the ruins of the same name from others as being overcrowded and unimpressive the closest I got to the ruins was taking a picture of them from knee deep water.

After moving around Central America for the last two and a half months trying to absorb as much as possible it feels nice to sit back and do nothing for a while. Nothing is more than a lack of something; it is in itself a beautiful thing.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Home again, home again...

I'm ready right about now to start planning my next long term backpacking trip.
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Isla Mujeres, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Mujers is said to have been tranquil and beautiful beach. Apparently the thirty minute ferry ride from Cancun is no longer enough to keep Cancun-style development out. High rise hotels and beach side bars with phalanxes of beach chairs now blight the beach. It looks like I need to find another beach town to ride out my last few days on this trip.
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Caye Caulker, Belize

The name of a local fruit the coco plum, morphed by pirates to the act of patching and caulking their ships in the island's tranquil waters is now a beautiful patch of white sand and turquoise water. I haven't worn shoes in the three days since I arrived. Walking on the beach and the sand blown street populated only by golf carts doesn't seem to warrant shoes.

Snorkeling today at various sites around the island by boat we saw stingrays, sharks, flying eagle rays, and various and sundry coral and tropical fish.
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Punta Gorda, Belize

I took the launcha from Finca Tatian to Livingston. I found out that there was not infact a daily boat from Livingston to Belize, so I took a boat from Livingston to Puerto Barrios where I later in the day caught a boat to Punta Gorda, Belize. Once in Belize, I stayed the night in the quiet border port town with the seven hour bus to Belize City on the next day's agenda.
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Livingston, Guatemala

Half way between Rio Dulce and Livingston there is a small tributary called the Tatian. The Finca Tatian is a great place to relax in the jungle and kayak through said jungle.

I read a book they had in their book shelf called "Tales from Margeritaville" by Jimmy Buffet which enlightened me to the existence of a travel book by Mark Twain "Following the Equator" and got me eager to get back to the beach.
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Rio Dulce, Guatemala

Staying in the town of Rio Dulce, on the river of the same name, for one night I was underwhelmed based on the glowing reviews I had gotten from other travelers. It wasn't a bad town, but I found no great point of interest or redeeming quality other than being on a river.
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Poptun, Guatemala

Halfway between Flores and Rio Dulce is Poptun a small town whose greatest claim to fame is a relaxing place to stay with great food.

In the two days I was here I went on one self-guided hike around the finca with a few other guests for a couple hours and spent the rest of the time reading, eating, and hammocking.
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Flores, Guatemala

Tikal, the ruins of a Mayan civilaztion previously surrounded by and now enveloped in the dense jungle, is an awe inspiring sight. The buildings themselves are impressive in stature in addition to the mental image of an entire large city swallowed by the jungle in less than 500 years.

I wonder how long it will be before people take tour boats through the ruins of a sunken New York City.
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