The beach can be a bitch
Not much time so I will keep it short. Palenque the ruins were amazing, everything I had hoped. Misol-Ha was amazing and I can't sum up the beauty hopefully my photos later will. I can't believe that the tour guides universally give 30 minutes there and 3 hours at Agua Azul which was not as special in my opinion, at least some balance would've made sense. Agua Azul had potential but being the wet season it wasn't Azul so the magic was missing really and it was packed. All the tour guides offer the exact same schedule so it leads to you seeing the same people over and over again.
I caught a night bus to Tulum and got in at 7am. After a quick nap at the hostel I went to the ruins hoping to avoid the heat of midday. What I didn't realise that Tulum is hot for 18hours of the day and there is no avoiding it unless you get up at sunrise (when the ruins aren't open). The Tulum ruins were exactly what I expected, disappointing but with the most awesome setting. Unfortunately it was after being at the ruins that I succumbed to sickness for the second time on this trip and spent the remainder of the night alternating between kneeling before the toilet and sitting on it, sometimes with no time to switch! Obviously I was in no mood to be at the beach especially with the heat as it was. I made a tactical decision to head back west to Xalapa in Veracruz state to visit Anilu. While this cut short my beach trip by a day I was just so freaking depressed that it made perfect sense.
The next morning I awoke feeling recovered and made a 6am trip to the beach. It was nothing short of magical and this is definitely one part of Mexico to return to, from what I have heard Isla Mujeres is the place to be and would've been where I would spend my last day on the Yucatan. The main theme of this journey through Mexico has been that I need to come back, I have only scratched the surface, not to mention my long desired trip to central and south America.
So I continued with my plan to head back west to Veracruz a day early and in a way I am glad. It will give me a chance to see a fair portion of what the state has to offer. Thus bus trip was alternatively calm and frantic. I have decided that if heaven is the beaches of Quinta Roo (Canun, Playa del Carmen, Tulum) then hell is the Yucatan swamps that dominate the rest of the peninsula. The ferryman is the bus driver on a second class bus between Valladolid and Merida stopping at every freaking one donkey town along the way.
Oh and I caught a cold on the bus.
I caught a night bus to Tulum and got in at 7am. After a quick nap at the hostel I went to the ruins hoping to avoid the heat of midday. What I didn't realise that Tulum is hot for 18hours of the day and there is no avoiding it unless you get up at sunrise (when the ruins aren't open). The Tulum ruins were exactly what I expected, disappointing but with the most awesome setting. Unfortunately it was after being at the ruins that I succumbed to sickness for the second time on this trip and spent the remainder of the night alternating between kneeling before the toilet and sitting on it, sometimes with no time to switch! Obviously I was in no mood to be at the beach especially with the heat as it was. I made a tactical decision to head back west to Xalapa in Veracruz state to visit Anilu. While this cut short my beach trip by a day I was just so freaking depressed that it made perfect sense.
The next morning I awoke feeling recovered and made a 6am trip to the beach. It was nothing short of magical and this is definitely one part of Mexico to return to, from what I have heard Isla Mujeres is the place to be and would've been where I would spend my last day on the Yucatan. The main theme of this journey through Mexico has been that I need to come back, I have only scratched the surface, not to mention my long desired trip to central and south America.
So I continued with my plan to head back west to Veracruz a day early and in a way I am glad. It will give me a chance to see a fair portion of what the state has to offer. Thus bus trip was alternatively calm and frantic. I have decided that if heaven is the beaches of Quinta Roo (Canun, Playa del Carmen, Tulum) then hell is the Yucatan swamps that dominate the rest of the peninsula. The ferryman is the bus driver on a second class bus between Valladolid and Merida stopping at every freaking one donkey town along the way.
Oh and I caught a cold on the bus.
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