Tulum

Our Mexico holiday continues to be nothing short of extraordinary! We’re all becoming more relaxed as each day goes past; with such a beautiful setting, it would be hard not to be relaxed though! We have even discovered a new favourite cocktail – the Leaping Lizard. We have no idea what’s in it, except probably some melon liquor (think: Midori), but it’s very tasty, and very green!

One peculiarity that we’ve discovered with the resort however, is that they can’t seem to set tables correctly. This has been an ongoing theme for the whole time we’ve been here. For example, this morning at breakfast, there were no teaspoons (for coffee/tea, or eating yoghurt), and only two glasses of orange juice were poured even though the setting was for four people. Last night we ate at the French restaurant here – the fanciest of all the resort’s restaurants – and only three of us had dinner forks. No matter what meal or what restaurant, there is always at least one or two things missing from the table. It’s really quite bizarre!

But asides from that, everything is pretty much perfect. Yesterday we joined a bike-ride excursion from the resort to the ruins at Tulum – about a 4 mile ride. It was hot!! By the time we got to the ruins site, we were all sweating up a storm.

The Mayan ruins were extremely well preserved, and the site itself was immaculately maintained. The paths between the ruins were adequate, but unfortunately a few of them seemed to be a long way from the structures themselves, which meant for the most part, you were viewing things from a distance. Still, very impressive, and well worth the ride to get there.

Apparently, on the two equinox days, the sun casts a perfect shadow through the building at the top of the hill. Wicked! Would have been good to be here on the equinox but we missed it by a couple of months!

One thing that’s extra cool about the Tulum ruins is that they overlook two of the most immaculate beaches I have ever seen. One of them is easily accessible by stairs, and as I said it was freaking hot, so Ben and I jumped at the opportunity to go for a swim.

It was a pretty easy ride home to the resort, and we certainly the BBQ lunch that we enjoyed when we got back!