Mexico Day 23 - Bacalar & Valladolid

After pre booking a sunrise paddle boarding trip for this morning and getting a sensibly early night last night in preparation for the 5.40am alarm, everything seemed to be ruined when gem woke us up at 6.25am asking why the alarm hadn't gone off!

After scraping ourselves together and somehow climbing over the hotels locked front gate we luckily grabbed a taxi and made our 6.45am meeting point in perfect time! We were rewarded with the most amazing pink/purple looking dawn sky over the harbour which made us even more excited to get on the boards for the sunrise!

Our guide Hector was nice and we had a hungover Italian called Marco with us as well. The first stop was around 20 mins out into the lagoon where we tied the boards to a rope for coffee and sunset. After chatting and watching the sun come up we headed to the black cenote which we were told goes hundreds of metres deep before heading back to shore, remarkably nobody fell in!

Afterwards we had a long bus journey to Valladolid - which luckily had a 2 hour stop over in Tulum and knowing the area meant we could have one last lunch at 'Burrito Amor' to kill the time.

Arriving into Valladolid we immediately headed to the town square and watched the sunset around the local church, we also finally got our first mexican churros from a local stand and they were definitely worth the wait!Read more