The only thing better than an early morning start to a tour is when your allocated time passes and you're still waiting and waiting at the pick-up point. Luckily for me, one of the guys who works at the tour place turned up early for work and called the company to see where they were. They thought they were meeting me in Playacar, but somehow they were still there within 5 minutes which is weird since Playacar is further away than that. We set off ... ...couple and 3 Spanish families. First stop is barely an hour down the road in Tulum where we have a pit stop to use some lovely broken toilets with even more broken doors. I buy a fancy-ass Magnum (as eaten by Eva Longoria) and promptly drop half the chocolate down my top (the turquoise Tesco tank which exactly matches by fancy-ass rucksack).
2 hours and some interesting Mexican music later we are at Chichén Itzá. Gerry meets up with another tour ...
zoe_page 15.08.2008
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Advantages: Great beaches, great snorkeling, nice weather Disadvantages: Cancun can be a bit crowded
...the best places in the Yucatan to see ruins after the Mayans. The area is quite big and some of the stuff is spectacular. It costs about 75 pesos to get in but it is worth that. I do regret that we didn't go for a guide when we were in there because they seemed to be giving out lots of interesting details about the buildings and the Mayan history to their groups. The main building in Chichen Itza is great pyramid "El Castillo" (The castle). I was ... ...it but it was off limits when we were there. It was very hot the day when we went to this place (probably 35 degrees) so it was hard walking around there all day. South of Playa there is another eco park called Xel-Ha. One day we decided to go there but to save some money we decided to rent snorkelling gear in Playa instead of in Xel-Ha. When we rented the stuff the guy in the store recommended that we should go to a place called Akumal instead of ...
gard 26.06.2003
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...First of all the yucatan peninsula. The attractions are numerous second largest reif in the world so the snorkelling is fantastic. There are the mayan ruins, numerous throughout the peninsula we visited Tulum and Chichen Itsa but there are more. There are also the eco parks Xel ha and Xcharet, unfortunately we didn't get around to visiting Xcharet but we spoke to people that had been and we regret not fitting it in. We did go to Xel Ha, it's an eco ... ...go snorkelling and there are over 200 different species of fish. Lots of walking though as the park is very large. If you're interested in nature you will love the park. Xcharet is more of a cultural park which has an evening show parading different cultural attractions. Both of these parks are accessible from the hotel by a short Taxi journey which is very cheap and you don't need a guide so there is no point in paying extra to go through a tour ...
maria79purple 21.05.2005
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