Tulum - Tribal Village

Dean spotting from our cabaa window
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How amazing to meet up with Dean and Mike. It really made us feel like we´ve started our world tour and boosted our va va voom. They had booked us into Tribal Village which is a backpackers paradise right on the coast. We had a cabaña next to theirs with sweeping views of the caribbean out of every gap in the walls. It was fantastic and it was here that we got over our jet lag and got into the swing of things - we just chilled out, laughed a lot, read books, got advise about where to go and what to see and tried to get used to the heat (sunburnt knees are very painful).

Chesta has been trying to improve his swimming and went out for an early morning dip one day, returning after 20 minutes without his middle toenail. Probably best not to practise swimming in this neck of the woods as it can be fairly gnarley (for someone who can´t swim).

Tribal Village is basically a load of sheds with beds full of really cool people. We´ve already met a lot of people who we want to stay in touch with, including a fantastic Greek couple Costas and Sylvia, Stefan from Montreal and Rebecca from NZ.

We all met up for a sort of leaving do on Tuesday evening at the Acabar. Charlie was drinking strong Cuba Libras throughout the evening with tequilla chasers and can´t remember how she ended up in the sea with Dean and without clothes.

On Wednesday she had her first hangover on the bus to Chetumal.