It was a long journey from Caye Caulker to Playa Del Carmen - 12 hours of cramped local buses! To make matters worse one coach played the S Club movie... can you believe that made it all the way to Mexico. Very wrong indeed!

Our day in Playa Del Carmen was devoted to sun worshiping on the beach and a few drinks in a beach bar in the afternoon. For a change we stayed in a posh hotel with a lovely pool, towel sculpture on the bed and kitchenette in our room!

From Playa we headed to Cancun, our finishing point for the trip. We said goodbye to the group over a few bottles of Corona and a nice meal in a restaurant with an opera singing Mexican in a giant sombrero!

On our last day in Mexico and our last real day of the whole trip we headed to the famous Cancun beaches to top up our tan. We enjoyed a relaxing 4 hours gazing at the turquoise Carribbean before our idyllic afternoon was interrupted by a giant freak wave washing over us and washing all our possessions into the sea. Mark dived for our passports and memory cards whilst Kim grabbed the camera and ran down the beach after her clothes, worrying about walking through Cancun in just a bikini! She spotted her skirt bobbing up and down in the sea and rushed in to get it, completely underestimating the strength of the waves. She was knocked down by a wave and couldn't get up again until Mark waded in to the rescue! Sadly our mobile phone and (new) camera now no longer work but at least the local population weren't inflicted by the sight of Kims bikini-clad body strolling through town!