Final Days in Mexico - the Carribean Coastal Ruins of Tulum then Chetumal Checkout was 12 (boo hoo!) but that still meant you could eat breakfast so with no avail Ads and I prepared our stomachs to eat as much food as we could so that we didn't have to pay for any more food that day!!! Breakfast appears to have about 8 courses; cereal, fruit, omelettes, meat pie, hash browns, toast, pancakes, refried beans, fruit, croissants and even cake!!! After managing about ...

The Carribean waters of Cancun's Hotel Zone! Our plans for the next few days were vague at this point, first we had decided to head down the coast to a place called Playa del Carmen as the expense of Cancun was eating the budget and neither of us fancied the 22km of high rise hotels that is the 'Hotel Zone', but the guys we met had said that they had been told that Playa del Carmen was like Blackpool, and that was from a girl that was from Blackpool a site neithe...

Day 16 and 17 - Capital Merida, breath-taking ruins of Chichen Itza then destination Cancun! Again the landscape reminded us of home and after just 2 hours we arrived at the capital of this state Merida. The feel as we got out the taxi near the square was not quite the same as Campeche and immediately we wished we had stayed there! We found a cheap hostel recommended as a place popular with Mexicans, it was okish, cheap at 180 pesos, cleanish but grubby on the ed...

Day 15 - On the road again to the ocean and UNESCO cultural village of Campeche! An early start, bakery stop (our new found eat of normally stale but cheap fodder!) and not so posh ADO bus saw us back on the road again, this time heading to a small UNESCO cultural heritage town called Campeche on the Gulf of Mexico. The landscape changed pretty dramatically from this point on and we could see why the bus journeys take an eighth of the latter, the roads were flat ...