Mexico - Tulum

After sucessfully avoiding the great herds of tourists that sweep across these parts of Mexico, we had to finally bite the bullet as we hit the so called "mayan riviera" - the carribean coast of Quintaroo famous for the likes of Cancun and Playa Del Carmen...

Back on the road again, we spent the best part of a day driving from Merida back towards the coast and to Tulum. Had a great lunch in a small place we stumbled in to in Valladolid - almost died from eating the wrong chilli... long story


TULUM (11 photos)



Here's a few pics at the hotel - Om Tulum - by the beach...
if you want a place to take a spa, be seen and be supposedly eco-touritsy on an overdeveloped beach, then I recommend Tulum. If, however, you actually want to relax and not see another tourist for days - then you're in the wrong place...





One of the most fun things we did was hire a couple of snorkels and a beach bum and drive around the area doing some cave diving at dos ojos, sea-turtle diving at Akumal and then some reef work later. Very cruisy day - I think at the end, we left our guy at a bar somewhere with the gear and headed back into town for some awesome fish tacos...oooh yeahh

Unfortunately, we didn't have cameras whilst doing all this underwater work, but it was so cool the guy who was showing us around emailed me a few he had...




(you're not allowed to kill the mozzies, coz that's what the bats that live in the caves eat)

We didn't know it at the time, but apparently the hundreds of ceynotes (all linked by miles of under ground rivers and caverns) are the result of a massive meteor impact - the one that killed all the dinosaurs (or so they say) - quite cool. Check it out here.