Tulum, Mexico
Trip Start
Oct 09, 2006
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Trip End
Jun 15, 2007
Tulum,
Mexico
Friday, December 8, 2006
When you are travelling itīs always nice when you return to a place that youīve already been. You know the layout of the place, you know where the shops are, where you can get good coffee, where the post office is, etc.
We spent 3 days in Cancun, and did nothing really, nothing to report!
We heard from many people that Tulum is a nice place with a lovely beach, so we headed there to get in some relaxation time before Central America.
Well.... Tulum.... had to be the biggest let down for us!
Just to explain the layout of the place. You can stay in 2 places... the first is in the town itself (one street and thatīs it), and the second place you can stay is about 5kms outside the town on the beach in cabanas (basic wooden huts). We said that weīd be clever about this!
We stayed in the town on the first night. The accommodation was lovely, but it wasnīt worth the 350 pesos that we had to pay for it (twas the cheapest we found). There are loads of restaurants and one or two nice shops in the town, but once you have walked up one side of the main street and back down the other side then you have seen Tulum town. Yaaaaawwwnn!
Next day, we moved to a "hostel" which was close to the infamous Tulum Ruins and 750m from the beach. The room we got was right next to the reception area, never a good idea, and the room stank of stale water. After a quick bit of investigation, we located the source of the stale water. In an effort to be "funky" the shower head had been replaced by a conch shell... how bohemian!!! The problem was that once you were finished your shower, the water just sat in the conch shell until somebody came along and had another shower... put a little hole in the bottom of the shell to leave the water drain out... DUH!!!! The "kitchen" in the hostel was absolute rank.... flies everywhere due to the left over food lying about!!!
Ok.... "lets move from this dump".... so we said weīd go for a walk along the beach to look at the cabanas. We walked, and walked, and walked.... felt like we walked for about 4 days. We should have taken our pet camel "Hump" from home, heīd have come in very handy on this occasion. We looked at loads of the cabanas, and to put it very bluntly... most of the places had a nerve to even ask people to pay for the accommodation that they were offering. The majority of the cabanas were wooden poles stuck into the ground in a tight circle, a bit of thatch stuck on the top, throw in a bed with a mosquito net... right... thatīll be $55 US dollars a night please!!!!!!!!!!! When we were in Indonesia, we stayed in exactly the same type of cabana for ... €2.50 a night... how the hell they can charge $55 for the same thing is incredible, and moreover.... how the hell people actually pay that much just to sleep on a beach and get eaten alive by mosquitos is scary!!! BUGGER THAT... in FACT.... BUGGER TULUM....
Oh yeah.... the beach was nice enough..... a bit windy though!!
We didnīt even take a picture in Tulum ....can you believe that!!!
Leaving Mexico..... going to Belize.
