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Location Date San Cristobal De Las Casas 1396825200 Palenque 1396566000 Campeche 1396306800 Merida 1396137600 Chichen-Itza 1395964800 Valladolid 1395878400 Tulum
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Location Date Tue, 25 March 2014 1395783960 Mon, 24 March 2014
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Our stay in Playa Del Carmen was always planned to be a holiday - a nice hotel, diving and not watching the pennies so carefully - and now it had came to an end. The diving had came to an end regardless, since Saturday evening David's ear was sore and likely to have an infection.
We had a last and long breakfast at the Spanish Cocina with extra mugs of cinnamon coffee while we finalised the next step of our journey on the internet. David then went round the pharmacies to see who would sell antibiotics without a prescription and fortunately one did.
The temperature had soared over the last few days and walking on the street was hard work so there was no way we were walking 15 minutes to the bus station with our packs on our backs. We hailed a taxi from the hotel which was driven by a surprisingly nice, chatty driver who took us the quickest and most direct route to the bus station.
Our bus ride to Tulum was very uneventful, we had driven the first half of the road a few times previously when going diving. Our hotel, in Tulum, was 3km out of town, by the Mayan ruins, so walking was definetly not an option and we already decided on a taxi. Unfortunately, our driver this time was at the opposite end of the scale when it came to service - he didn't know where Hotel Andreas was and got lost on the way, we had to rely on Google on our tablet to get us there.
We threw our bags in the room and took a quick walk down to the beach before the light faded. Day turns to night very quickly here, within 30 minutes or so, so we managed a photo before heading back.
We had missed lunch and were looking for an early dinner so we stopped in at the cafe opposite our hotel. Panuchos, a Yucatan speciality, were on the menu so we ordered some. We had no idea what it was but Alex, of Jalapeños Auckland, had recommended we try them. It was a fried tortilla filled with beans and topped with chicken, lettuce and red onion - very tasty!! We also ordered 'quekas', again we had no idea what that was but it turned out to be a quesadilla. Lucky for us we decide on the early dinner as they were closing when we left, before 7pm.
We had a last and long breakfast at the Spanish Cocina with extra mugs of cinnamon coffee while we finalised the next step of our journey on the internet. David then went round the pharmacies to see who would sell antibiotics without a prescription and fortunately one did.
The temperature had soared over the last few days and walking on the street was hard work so there was no way we were walking 15 minutes to the bus station with our packs on our backs. We hailed a taxi from the hotel which was driven by a surprisingly nice, chatty driver who took us the quickest and most direct route to the bus station.
Our bus ride to Tulum was very uneventful, we had driven the first half of the road a few times previously when going diving. Our hotel, in Tulum, was 3km out of town, by the Mayan ruins, so walking was definetly not an option and we already decided on a taxi. Unfortunately, our driver this time was at the opposite end of the scale when it came to service - he didn't know where Hotel Andreas was and got lost on the way, we had to rely on Google on our tablet to get us there.
We threw our bags in the room and took a quick walk down to the beach before the light faded. Day turns to night very quickly here, within 30 minutes or so, so we managed a photo before heading back.
We had missed lunch and were looking for an early dinner so we stopped in at the cafe opposite our hotel. Panuchos, a Yucatan speciality, were on the menu so we ordered some. We had no idea what it was but Alex, of Jalapeños Auckland, had recommended we try them. It was a fried tortilla filled with beans and topped with chicken, lettuce and red onion - very tasty!! We also ordered 'quekas', again we had no idea what that was but it turned out to be a quesadilla. Lucky for us we decide on the early dinner as they were closing when we left, before 7pm.
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