Tulum

It is my second full day in Tulum. Chris and I just moved lodgings from a nice-r hotel near town to a cabana on the beach. This is the real Tulum, I have been told. The hotel was great to get our bearings, I had been told that a lot of cabana establishments on the beach cannot be booked online, so we took the free bikes from our hotel and visited a couple of different ones yesterday.

 

Tulum is amazing, full of interesting things. Its a tourist town, so a lot of things seem overpriced (like all touristy beach places) but its still cheap by Canadian standards. Yesterday we visited the mayan ruins that are located on a cliff above the beach. These ruins were cool, but they were also overrun with tourists. We want to go to Coba, a larger ruin that is about half an hour away. I am hoping to go on a snorkel tour of the reef and also to visit some Cenotes (freshwater sinkholes) or the Sian Kaan biosphere reserve, but we havent booked anything yet. I am also ok with just hanging out, because I will have more opportunities to snorkel or see monkeys, but I wont be able to spend time with Chris.

Tulum is a really easy town, its basically just 10 straight blocks along the highway which turns into the main street. Lots of tourists, also lots of expats, so its easy to get by in English although people have also been tolerant of my slow, broken spanish. I think it was a good decision to start my tour of Central America here, because I am generally understood when I speak a mix of spanish and english, because there are a range of amenities for foreigners, and also because it is just a really chill place!! I am really happy to be here.