Last week I was lucky enough to have Melody come down. It was so nice to have someone visit from home. Last year for spring break we did SPRING BREAK in South Padre Island, Texas, so this year we calmed it down and did ruins and beaches - still quite the adventure.
The first place we went to is the local city and cenote of Dzibilchaltun. This city flourished from 1500 BC to about 1540 when the Spanish conquered the Yucatan. We climbed the ruins and cooled off in the cenote. It is getting hot in the Yucatan.
A few days later we headed to the Carribean to the city of Tulum. Here we stayed in an awesome hostel - Casa del Sol - where we slept in this lovely cabana and spent our days in the hammocks.
My first time sleeping with a mosquito net!
The day we went to the beach was a sand storm!!
We went to Coba, just a short journey away from Tulum. Coba was an earlier city than those such as Tulum and Chichen Itza, peaking at AD 800. The architecture is similar that to sites in Guatemala and the surroundings are breathtaking as they are inset into the jungle. These stones remind me how easy and natural communication can be - just two large rocks in the middle of a jungle with carvings.
transportation
To get around we rented bikes and rode along the sacbes (Maya for stone-paved avenue).
We ended the trip on a good note - Melody's first time eating pescado frito! Clearly it was fresh.
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