Tuesday, February 3, 2009

El Caribe: Dia Tres

One member of the group has a guidebook that lists the top 10 things to do in the Yucatan. We have already done several of the things. One that we hadn't done yet was watched the sunrise from Isla Mujeres, so we woke up super early to watch it. It was a beautiful morning, except for the massive clouds tat blocked the sunrise!

However we did find an Indiana Jones truck! Liscense plate Belize, which is next weekend!

driving out of Cancun we went through the backside, the more unseen side where the people who work at all the fancy hotels live
from there we went through Valladolid again and I bought this awesome pair of leather sandals. this is where the cattle are raised and products are made to be sent to touristy spots to be sold for 5x more than what I paid ($10 USD). the soles are made of tires!!
the process of making them is as cool as the sandals


we then went to climb the ruins of Ek'Balam




this is a respected tree of the Maya

2 comments:

Rebecca said...

What is the name of the respected tree? It is so spiky!

Amanda said...

It is a Ceiba tree.http://www.buriedmirror.com/yaxche.htm