Playa Del Carmen - Mexico

Day 2 of the tour we took a bus an hour south of Cancun to Playa de Carma. It is so chilled and relaxed here I think I could easily spend 2 weeks here just bumming around the beach....in fact anyone could. (Mum and Dad- I reckon you´d love it here) The beach is absolute post card material, beautiful crystal clear aqua blue water and white as white sand. It is absolutely breathtaking! Spent the afternoon on the beach just taking it all in. The guides came to take us for dinner that night but not before our Official Welcome drinks....This involved the biggest bottle of Bacardi I have ever seen (1.75L), a full bag of limes and lemonade...yum! ...Needless to say by the time we left for dinner the bottle was empty...and we were full! After yet another amazing feed they took us to a place called the ´Swing Bar´right on the beach...in the sand....not your regular swing bar...this actually had swings the whole way around the bar so you can sit on your swing, swinging back and forth while you sip your drink...It was lots of fun. Here we tried a few of the different Tequila's´s available of which there are sooooo many you have NO idea!! They have whole shops devoted to it throughout Mexico and the varieties are unbelievable.....I have thought about buying a bottle to bring home but I know it probably wont make it that far, plus I have to carry it, so am not going to bother. Next on to a beach night club where they played nothing but hip hop and it was absolutely teeming with Spring Break kids....quite repulsive really! Didn't stay here too long as it was making me feel quite old.

Needless to say after last nights effort, I woke up feeling a little under the weather this morning. Today we took a bus to Tulum a small town about 45mins south of Playa de Carmen, where right on the beach front, there are these fascinating Mayan ruins, set infront of another post card beach, which explored before hitting the beach for a swim. The weather here is much cooler at night than I was expecting but the days are still amazing and warm. The beach we found near the ruins was covered in little huts which are teaming with Hippy-type people who have dread locks, live on the beach and sleep in hammocks hung from palm trees. There was a big green double decker bus there and the guys living on it have driven the bus all over Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and are now doing South America...they had quite an amazing story to tell, so we hung with them for the afternoon and had some lunch at this dodgy looking place near the camp which actually had great food. Tomorrow is our longest travel day, about 10 hours on the road. A bus to the Mexican border, another bus to Belize City, then a boat to a tiny island of the coast of Belize for a couple of days of snorkeling etc. Cant wait!! Plus everyone in Belize speaks English which will be nice for a bit...though my Spanish has improved. Internet and phone calls there are about 6x the price here so it´ll be a few days before I next get on the net. Love to you all. Miss ya heaps, but am having an absolute ball! Adios Amigos!

they took us to a place called the ´Swing Bar´right on the beach...in the sand....not your regular swing bar...