Tulum Trip #2

My room in the hostel. I slept in the bottom left bunk.

My sweaty tanktop from the back after the tour through the ruins. Yuck!

My sweatyness from the front. This is equally disgusting!

One of the tallest ruins at Coba.

Another very tall ruin at Coba.

Last weekend six of us girls from the program went to Tulum for a long weekend again. We stayed at the same hostel as before and had great service from the owners and some pet therapy. =) We saw more of Tulum this weekend than we did the previous weekend because we had an extra day to see more things. We saw the ruins and turtles again, but we actually went down to the beach that is at the ruins and were able to cool off and jump with the very high waves that were there that day. The ruins were more busy because it was a Friday instead of Sunday but the beach was a great break from the heat and sweating! Later on Friday one of the owner's sons took us to a private beach and we got to snorkel over lots of coral. We saw lots of pretty fish but the waves were really hard to fight which made the experience less enjoyable. On Saturday we went to the ruins in Coba which is an hour away from Tulum. It was great seeing other ruins and having to do lots more exercise in order to see all the ruins but with exercise and moving around outside came lots of sweating for me! So a tanktop being drenched in sweat on the front and back was less enjoyable but I survived. Later we went to see the turtles so the other girls could see them and I saw another 8-9 turtles and a couple stingrays! It was again great to cool off in the water in the late afternoon and early evening. However, the tide was high once again which made the water very foggy, but I still got lots of pictures of the turtles with my underwater camera. We also felt very adventurous and excited that we found a Subway by the ruins!! We decided to save a little money and buy a footlong on Saturday for lunch and save one of the six inches for supper that night. It was such a great idea and it allowed us to just stay at the hostel and relax Saturday night instead of having to bike to and from the hostel late at night with the stars above us. Sunday I got to sleep in until 9:30 (which isnt much for me after dealing with mono) but it was still great to be able to do that! We left Sunday a little after noon and got back early evening on Sunday morning. It was great to talk to our taxi driver and hear a little about his life as he learned a little about ours. It is such a great experience to converse and understand native Spanish speakers now! The spanish speaking skills are definitely improving and becoming more natural!