As you all know…just like you, we love Mexico, especially,
Playa. We’ve backpacked up and down the Yucatan coast and the number of places we’ve been keeps growing and we cannot get enough of the Mayan culture, Spanish language, tropical atmosphere, great Mexican food and wonderful beaches. I recently counted my Mexico trips, and since 1994, I’ve been to Mexico on 8 occasions- 7 since 2005, of which 6 of them have been
Playa! You know what that means…. there will be a lucky #7 trip soon!
Our first backpacking trip to
Playa-2005.
We love travel, I make it a must since my career is too demanding without a tropical get-away. I conduct Mental Heath Assessments and am also a Therapist and need to escape the negativity of others people’s stressors.
We wanted badly to go to Merida on this trip, to do some major shopping. As a side business we sell on ebay and are in the process of expanding the online sales outside ebay and would love to sell Mayan merchandise! Perhaps that will be our reason for our next trip, for we decided the 6 days just wasn’t enough time! For this trip we wanted to be near the ocean considering the June heat.
Just like every trip, Scott could not leave home without his fly-rod and fly fished from shore where-ever we went!
Besides Scott’s participating in his fishing obsession, this vacation, we… beached it, ate out, shopped, helped at the Peanut Shelter dog wash, was in attendance at the Coco’s Fundraiser at the Luna Blue, attended a peep meet at Zenzi’s, visited Paamul, Xpu- Ha and got a tad touristy on this trip by visiting Kantun Chen and Xel Ha. Oh...and Yes, Scott did get a haircut that has become his tradition when visiting
Playa!
Were sooo cheap…so we opted to stay within our budget traveling style and found an incredible deal with Hotel Fiesta Banana for around $30 USD a night!!! Hard to pass up!
I always start the reports with a reminder of our passion for Mexico. (Our wedding in Cozumel Island a few years back)
Anyway….more about saving money!….We took up a mule offer here -intheroo- and muled some judo uniforms in exchange for free transportation from the airport! We would have muled the uniforms anyway, but didn’t pass up the opportunity, given we were arriving at 9:00am and the ADO bus doesn’t run at that time of the morning. A big Thanks Jamnkats! While in route, we phoned the hotel who told us check in was not until 3pm, so we discussed with Jamnkats the possibility riding with her to Paamul (one of our favorite spots on this earth) spending the day there, then cabbing it back to
Playa later—great plan! It allowed us to meet Jamnkats beautiful family who given the unexpected guests, were very accommodating!
We love Paamul and know exactly why Corona has filmed advertisments there and I also agree with numerous publications that ranks Paamul as being one of the most beautiful beaches.
Our day in Paamul
...Before exploring, were off enjoying the pool!
...just love my Olympus Stylus 1050 SW camera! I call it my James Bond 007 camera, this photo was taken from in the pool looking up at the trees/sky...
Okay...stay tuned for more of our day in Paamul!!!!