Felipe Carrillo Puerto

Check24 made it possible that we found a nice and economic Nissan X-Trail Jeep at Cancun Airport.

From there it was only a one hour ride to our first destination: Cenote Azul. Cenotes are natural sweet water pools wich sometimes are open and sometimes closed as caves, but kind of connected underneath.

Absolutely cool stunning waters with many fish inside wich eat your dead skin around your feet. Fish spa for free.
We could climb and jump from above the caves. Lots of fun.

After this refreshment we made our way to Tulum, the city in wich we all had very high expectations in the nightlife.
As it often is with expectations, they didn't got fulfilled.
Our hostel (The Mayan Monkey) was dope, but the rest of the center was kind of basic and there was not so much going on. After investigating and asking 1000 people I finally found a party in the jungle were we got happy. Not that many people, but great music. So we danced there all night and met some nice guys wich took us with to the after party at their Pool Villa.
When the sun came we made our way back home.

The next day we checked out the hotel area at the beach. On beach club / hotel after the other and all suuuper expensive. So for the most places you had to pay 80-100€ entry + additional minimum consumption fees. Not in our budget.
We founs a public beach were we stayed the afternoon. There was so much Seaweed though, that we didn't even wanted to get into the water.

Some people told us about the one beach club party were If you go early enough you don't pay entry. We went there as first people, got a stamp and went out again for some Pizza. After some time we went back and the club slowly started to fill up. We had a fun night but went home early, to get up in the morning for the Bacalar Lagoon.

3,5 hours drive to our accommodation directly placed at the lagoon. We rented 3 kayaks and 1 Stand up padel and made swum out.
Depending on the sun stand and the water depth you can see 8 shades of blue in the lagoon. There are also 360 ° Cenotes inside of it, wich we kept on searching until the locals told us that were already in the cenote wich was directly connected.

The next day we drove 3 hours further into the country to see the Mayan temples of Calakmul.
It is only 35 kilometres from the Guatemalan border. Calakmul was one of the largest and most powerful ancient cities ever uncovered in the Maya lowlands.
It was estimated to have had a population of 50,000 people. The largest building of which is the great pyramid at the site is over 45 metres high, making it one of the tallest of the Maya pyramids

We have been there almost alone because it's so far away from any civilization or tourist point.

From there we made the decision to drive all the way back to Cancun (8hours) and chill there one more day until my flight to Puerto Escondido takes place.

There I found a workaway at a eco hostel were I could stay for the next weeks to safe some money.

Chelsey also wanted to join but she lost her Passport at the airport, so unfortunately she's stuck in Cancun...Read more