We are in Palenque, Chiapas right now at a nice little restaurante drinking a bottle of cab sav to celebrate chad's 29th year of birth! We got here on the night bus this morning at 10am and pretty much went straight to a hostel that was recommended by some other travelers who we have met along the way. Its called El Panchan and is right in the jungle across from the entrance to some ruins that we plan to check out in the morning. I slept the entire 11 hour bus ride despite having an army dude rumage through my bag at 4 in the morning and ask what my pepto bismol tablets were for! haha. For some reason another nap was in order (adrienne would be proud) and we slept until 3! We caught a collectivo and did our usual walk through the town. Found a coffee place that does not make thier coffee with nescafe!!! i will be back in the morning!
The past 9 days have been absolutely beautiful! We spent two nights in Cancun that was relatively expensive and not really interesting in the least bit. The beach was pretty however. Then we caught the bus to Playa del Carmen and spent two nights eating and drinking to our hearts content. The last night there was an electronic music festival night thing until 430 in the am. no sleep for us and our cabana neighbour was hiccuping all night from excess drunkenness so ya lots of fun.
Took the collectivo to Akumal for a snorkel day which was pretty awesome. I bought some gear at Walmart for a ridiculous price. Saw lots of fish and a stingray that i almost stepped on! That beach is famous for sea turtles but we went late in the afternoon so didnt get to see any. Chad was a little freaked out by the sea creatures and his tendancy to sink so he decided to leave the snorkeling for another day.
From Playa we decided to take the collectivo to Tulum. Excellant choice!! Tulum is wonderful. We stayed at a hostel called Posada De Mapaches. It was amazing. A bike and huge breakfast was included with the price. Family run place with super friendly staff. Two of the staff were canadians from Ottawa making $4 an hour but love the lifestyle. We did a lot of biking around and went to Grand Cenote the first day. Saw some turtles and little fish! not well described in words! The next day we went to the beach and were blown away by how beautiful! We went with another canadian named Rory who is a lawyer in Vancouver and muchos margaritas at a bar called the Mezzanine. Much discussion about the world in general was had and not remembered due to excess drinking. The bike ride home was rather interesting.
The next day the owner of the hostel, Jauquin, did a trip to Dos Ojos Cenote in his truck. 13 of us wanted to go and in mexico this is no problem! as long as there is squish room its all good. 7 in the box and 6 in the front! the mexicans were looking at us like we were crazy gringos trying to be as cool as they are! The cenotes were great. Juaquin took us on a route that went through some dark caves and i almost freaked out a couple times! We loved tulum so much, chad was obsessed with the taco stand down the road and had at least 6 a day and at 10 pesos each who could resist! But alas it was time to move on.
It rained all yesterday so we spent the day eating pizza and then a trip to Playa to buy this mini laptop. From here in Palenque we plan on heading to San Cristobal for a couple nights and then off to Antigua, Guatemala for Spanish classes. Its getting tiring trying to fumble with the language. I can't wait until we know what everyone is talking about! Well that is all for now. Now that we have the laptop, updating the blog should be a little more frequent.
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