After 13 hours of a very long day traveling, we crossed the border of Belize to enter Mexico. We are thinking to spend 2 months here, cause Mexico is a huge country that fascinates us.

Tulum is the place that we settle for 5 days. Tulum is a small Seaside town at 2 hours south of Cancun. Its beaches are beautiful with white sand and crystal blue perfect waters. We spend our first day at the beach.

We once again met Alice and Kate in our hostel and also Sara a Swiss girl that we have meet in the south of Colombia, and we have meet again in 5 different countries, backpackers always keep meeting each other’s on the road. We went with Adam an American and Celi an Australian all together to spend the day at the beach in Akumal, 30min from Tulum to snorkel with many green turtles and stingrays.

After that, we went to Cenote Cristalino. A cenote is a deep natural sinkhole, characteristic of Mexico that exposes groundwater, many times they are like caves and other times they are open. There are more than 6.000 of them in this region. Once under water it is another world, we loved it!

Watch the video of snorkeling at the Cenote:

The evening Alexis did a gig in the common area of our Hostel, the people enjoyed it and the owner offered him one night for free at the hostel.

As we loved the Cenote, we decide to visit another one the next day, this time a larger one, The Cenote Dos Ojos, we went there with a guide it is prohibited without one as we enter a cave. The water is cool but the place is amazing! It is in a blue and pure water that we visit the cave with many stalactites and stalagmites.

We stayed one more day to visit the famous Mayan ruins of Tulum. Visible from the beach of Tulum, this is not the most impressive ruins, but the most beautiful location for sure. The temples overlooking a cliff and behind the beautiful waters of the Caribbean sea.

Unfortunately, we got there at 10 in the morning, and even though we are in low season, it was that time with too many organized bus tours coming from Cancun… horrible! We felt like we were at Disney World. Annoyed by the mass tourism, we left the place pretty quick and spent the rest of the morning on the beach.

In the evening Carol had a Salsa class in our hostel. She had fun!

After only five days in Mexico, we are already delighted by what we have seen, done and eaten. The beaches here are the best we’ve seen in the world so far. We’re continuing our journey to the north of the peninsula.