Mexico Day 9 & 10 - Playa Del Carmen

We didn't visit the 'Hotel Zone' in Cancun but I imagine it would be similar to the '5th Avenue and Tourist Beaches' of Playa Del Carmen. Walking on our first day exploring we found lots of American'isms from chain shops to guys dressed as Spiderman! However only a few blocks away from the madness we found so many great restaurants offering great deals and amazing food! We had burritos, pork tacos, falafel and various Egg based breakfast dishes all from £4-£6 each!

We had two quiet days really - exercising in the morning and relaxing on the quieter locals beaches in the afternoon! These days were easily the hottest since we arrived.

The first evening we relaxed in the room and played cards and the second we decided to check out some of the rooftop bars. Firstly a bar at the top of the Thompson, which had sofas in the swimming pools and lots of great views across the town, here we got chatting with the barman Juan about our travels and showed him our planned route. He gave us some recommendations from his hometown of San Cristobal De Las Casas (which was already on our list, something he seemed quite proud about).

The walk to the next bar was so brilliantly normal we both stopped to appreciate it, a bustling street (still probably only at about 30% capacity) with people all enjoying themselves made us feel so lucky! We arrived 5 minutes after the bar opened at The Palm Rooftop and expectedly we were the only customers, it was definitely more of a 1am club type place so we sat and took in the views with some good music for a drink but left just after to head back to the hotel.Read more