17/7/14 - Tulum costal ruins, another paradise beech and no room at the inn

17/7/14 - Tulum coastal ruins, another paradise beech and no room at the inn.

About 4 am both me and Ceri woke up shaking in our bed as if we'd been skinny dipping in the Antarctic! Turned out that the air con in our room must have mal functioned and gone from cool to Baltic! It was a bit like that scene from dumb and dumber when they get of the mini moto in aspen "Harry, you're hands are freezing". Ceri used all her strength to yank the plug out of the wall though and we both quite quickly stated to thaw!

8am and I made a sharp exit to go meet Adam and Rich to make our way to the ruins before the crowds started to swarm ..... this place was a whole different experience to Chichen Itza and although the ruins were not as well preserved here the site seemed much bigger and you got much more of a sense of it having been populated by an ancient race.
The coast was again completely stunning and it made such an incredible back drop for the ancient ruins. Once we'd had a good look around and taken in the views we made a rush for the exit just as the first jam packed tour buses started to arrive. We walked along the beech for around half an hour before finding a nice spot for breakfast. The lads left and Ceri came and met me later.

Me and Ceri stayed at the beech all day and slept and had a bit of a swim. We discussed our journey to Caye Caulker in Belize, and decided that we would both prefer to take the morning bus to Chetumel (on the Belize border) then the ferry to the Island rather than the night bus to Belize City. Although this meant another night's accommodation in Tulum i was happier with this plan as trying to sleep on a bus with still having a bad back would just not be an option. We decided against the ice box of a hostel room for our second night's stay and instead opted for a cheaper room with a fan..... not sure which was worse though as last night's sleep was awful...... I felt like I was in a wind tunnel in the furnaces of hell as all the fan achieved was to blast hot air at us and keep us both awake with its racket.

Before bed we headed off to the ADO (bus station) to book our tickets for tomorrow's journey and lucky we did as there were only two seats left on the bus.... when we got back to the hostel we got onto booking our accommodation for 4 night's in Caye Caulker only to find that every where on hostel world had competently booked up..... seemingly Caye Caulker is the place to be on a Friday night. Ceri did a fab job of trawling the net though and managed to get us one night in a hotel and the other 3 night's in the hostel where some peeps we'd met in Cancun and arranged to meet up with were staying.

Small world: when I was at the beech i was chatting on Facebook with one of the Israli's we'd met on our first day and had a look at some of his pics.... anyways when I got back to the hostel that evening I saw 3 girls who i recognised from his photo so I asked if they knew him and they'd met him the night before in a place further north!
Also we keep bumping into the same people.....seems EVERYONE is going the same way and to the same places. I want new people......!!

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