Beaches in Paradise

Holly was set on having lunch on a beach, and with the help of our offline maps found a short detour to a beach at Xametla in Perula Bay. We were all a little skeptical as the road was a bit rough and sandy but it turned out to be one of our nicest lunch breaks of the trip. We pulled out our snorkels and swam with some little fish and rays before enjoying lunch in the sun. We all wondered about staying the night, but felt the pressure to make some more distance since there was still half a day to ride. A couple more big climbs in the mid-day heat, and another dirt road short cut got us to Boca de Iguanas in time to buy pineapple, shrimp and coconuts on the beach and swim in the shallow bay. The only warning we were given was to avoid going too far up the fresh water stream that flowed through the beach to the ocean as that was crocodile habitat - a little unnerving given that we set up our tents within 100 m of the stream!Read more