About dreamscapes and other ruins

We have arrived in Peru now. 2 weeks of Mexico are over already 🙁

But that doesn’t keep us from reminiscing that wonderful trip and telling you, what places we’ve visited.

Have you ever seen some pictures on a blog or website and thought: yeah, sure, that’s how beautiful it looks there. Joke’s on you, buddy, good photoshop skills.

We’ve had that feeling before, which is why we want to let you know to keep that in mind for the next photos. Because in reality the places are even more beautiful.

In the hostel in Tulum we’ve met a nice couple. A german guy with whom we had some nice conversations and drank some beer who was there with his lovely wife. The encounter was even more lucky for us, since they were driving home the same day we wanted to move on as well. Our next destination was on the way to where they live, so they drove us to Bacalar.

Thanks again in case you guys are reading this 🙂

In Bacalar we couldn’t believe what we were seeing. I’ve never seen more beautiful colors of the water. And the tent in our hostel was not even 20m from the water away.

That of course meant a lot of swimming and swinging and lying in Hammocks.

The city of Bacalar was okay, but not much that you need to have seen. As an attraction we were told to go to the cenote, which after a relatively long walk along a boring street, turned out to be an unspectacular water hole, where you have to pay to get in and only get to swim with a life vest. Ah well, after a tequila the world was alright again.

Our transport from the hostel (which was a little outside the city). was an attraction in itself. Never would that have been allowed in germany, to drive on the back of the truck on the cargo area on the freeway. Here in Mexico, though, it is nothing out of the ordinary :D.

After Bacalar we of course had to go to Valladolid, because, you know, everyone knows Valladolid.
Well no, not really, we definitely didn’t. But it turned out to be one of our highlights in Mexico. Such a cute town with not really many tourists, you just felt like you were right in the middle of daily life there.

From Valladolid you can really easily visit Chichin Itza with a collectivo (our favorite way to travel short distances in Mexico, cheap and the way the locals travel). There we were able to take these awesome pictures.

An unbelievable atmosphere there. If you ever want to visit Chichin Itza, like most popular attractions, you should visit early, before all the tourist busses come at noon.

One more post about Mexico will follow, about Isla Holbox, which is our absolute highlight of mexico.

You’ll find out why in our next post.

Hasta Luego!