We left the beautiful Isla Mujeres for the hip Playa Del Carmen.
Playa del Carmen is a mix of Cancun and Isla Mujeres: 100% touristy, like Cancun but with some of Isla Mujeres charm.
The beach is full of bars with loungers, load music and American girls.
The srteets are full of tourists shops where you can find tonnes of sombreros, dresses, coctail glasses , shity and good tequila and all the kind of crap possible.
The locals speaks only english and are still surprised when we answer in spanish.
So we spent our 4 days chilling on the beach, for one time we payed a little extra for stay on a bed with mexican food and mexican beer( it's a corona mix with tabasco and spicy stuff, quite good)
Digby went diving in a cave: Playa del Carmen is famous for there beautiful cave diving.
It was amazing, a really good dive experience for Digby.( See last pictures of the post)
Sophie was enjoying the sun and the nice beach..
Unfortunately the huricane season is here, and the rain came back!
We decided to go spend 3 days to Ilsa Cozumel to enjoy the beautiful diving spot and beaches..
The day when we arrived it was pissing it down with rain, so we were stuck in our hostel ( and internet bugged we thought we reserved for 3 nights but it reserved only one night so we had to change!)
Day 2 , pissing down again, can 't do anything except stay in our bedroom, watching TV and hoping the strom will calm down: it's so noisy it feel like a hurricane will arrive and destroy everything in the next minute. Sophie is a bit scared, Digby is calm for now...
Also it's quite weird but all the beaches are full of deluxe resort and next to that an hotel or resort completely destroy by huricane and nobody don't do anything about it. They dont rebuild, just wait for some one to come allong and buy it. Apparently the cost of repairing is often more than just building a new resort, and some have amazing location. Also we are told the owners are just waiting for some one to come to buy them, as they will sell it as a building and land but basically your buying land plus costs to tear down a rotten shell.
Luckly the last day finally the rainfall stop and Digby went diving.Sophie had time to visit the city center and see a little bit of the island. Digby had a very interesting diving trip were the Divemaster and instructors were drinking beers with students before diving and smoking joints. Un-like Digby he refused and was quite shocked. He's seem some dodgy dive opperators but this one beat them all. But the dive sites were great, all the equipment worked if not a bit dodgy and leaky. None the less he thought it was totaly worth it as it was one of the most beautiful coral walls he has seen diving!
It's sad we could not see more of Isla Cozumel, but the weather is something we can not control!
It's time to go back toPlaya del Carmen and now to see the Mayan culture! As on Cozumel there are mainly jewlers and shit shops for the people on cruise ships that dock there every day.
S+D
xx
D+S
Playa del Carmen is a mix of Cancun and Isla Mujeres: 100% touristy, like Cancun but with some of Isla Mujeres charm.
The beach is full of bars with loungers, load music and American girls.
The srteets are full of tourists shops where you can find tonnes of sombreros, dresses, coctail glasses , shity and good tequila and all the kind of crap possible.
The locals speaks only english and are still surprised when we answer in spanish.
So we spent our 4 days chilling on the beach, for one time we payed a little extra for stay on a bed with mexican food and mexican beer( it's a corona mix with tabasco and spicy stuff, quite good)
Digby went diving in a cave: Playa del Carmen is famous for there beautiful cave diving.
It was amazing, a really good dive experience for Digby.( See last pictures of the post)
Sophie was enjoying the sun and the nice beach..
Unfortunately the huricane season is here, and the rain came back!
We decided to go spend 3 days to Ilsa Cozumel to enjoy the beautiful diving spot and beaches..
The day when we arrived it was pissing it down with rain, so we were stuck in our hostel ( and internet bugged we thought we reserved for 3 nights but it reserved only one night so we had to change!)
Day 2 , pissing down again, can 't do anything except stay in our bedroom, watching TV and hoping the strom will calm down: it's so noisy it feel like a hurricane will arrive and destroy everything in the next minute. Sophie is a bit scared, Digby is calm for now...
Also it's quite weird but all the beaches are full of deluxe resort and next to that an hotel or resort completely destroy by huricane and nobody don't do anything about it. They dont rebuild, just wait for some one to come allong and buy it. Apparently the cost of repairing is often more than just building a new resort, and some have amazing location. Also we are told the owners are just waiting for some one to come to buy them, as they will sell it as a building and land but basically your buying land plus costs to tear down a rotten shell.
Luckly the last day finally the rainfall stop and Digby went diving.Sophie had time to visit the city center and see a little bit of the island. Digby had a very interesting diving trip were the Divemaster and instructors were drinking beers with students before diving and smoking joints. Un-like Digby he refused and was quite shocked. He's seem some dodgy dive opperators but this one beat them all. But the dive sites were great, all the equipment worked if not a bit dodgy and leaky. None the less he thought it was totaly worth it as it was one of the most beautiful coral walls he has seen diving!
It's sad we could not see more of Isla Cozumel, but the weather is something we can not control!
It's time to go back toPlaya del Carmen and now to see the Mayan culture! As on Cozumel there are mainly jewlers and shit shops for the people on cruise ships that dock there every day.
S+D
xx
D+S
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