Miércoles 10 Agosto

Hola amigos!

Time to leave Cozumel and go back to the main land. We are off to Tulum, but first we need to tack the boat back to Playa del Carmen (I am not looking forward to it).

really trendy new build pier in Cozumel

After the 45 minutes journey, and the 30 minutes I needed to recover, we headed for Playa del Carmen bus station one more time. This time we understood why we got lost when we arrived, the town has two bus station, an ultra modern one and an old one that not a lot of people use anymore.

When we arrived, I went straight to the counter asking them if by any chance they found a guide book, I lost mine when we came, and I was hopelessly hoping it was still there. The woman replied "in French", I said yes, she showed me the book and it was my guide book that I lost 3 days earlier that belongs to my grandma. I was over the moon!!

After that small incident, we took our bus to Tulum. Once in Tulum, we looked for an hostel called "Casa del Sol" that we found after a bit of a struggle. Tulum seems to be a really strange city, it is mainly a big road separating the town in two and on each side shops or restaurants but no more than 2-3 streets deep.

We took a "collectivo" direction the ruins of Tulum, we knew we would visit them the following day, but I wanted to see where it was and walk along the beach and rest!! I loved it, white sandy beach, turquoise water, a little bit of wind to keep us not too hot. I took a snooze, Damien went for a walk.

We decided to go back walking, we figured that the drive was not that long, so it should not be a problem. But we were (I was) wrong... After walking along the beach, we followed the road, but this one was the longest road ever, and our water supply was really low, luckily the sun was going down so it was not too hot, but we were really tired and it took us a really long time to arrive.

what we walked

I retraced on the internet our walking itinary, we walked 7 km !!! So no surprise if I tell you that we did not do much that evening, rest and slept a lot. Tomorrow we are going to try a cenote! Stay tuned!

Buenas noches!
Damien and Caro