Made it to Mexico

Ola.

I in fact managed after all to book a trip to Mexico on Wednesday night.

On Thursday morning at 5 my bus left, heading for Palenque in Mexico. The idea was to go there for one night, since there were supposed to be nice ruines and beautiful blue pools in a river. The trip there included two long bus rides and a 30 minute boot ride to cross the river at the boarder. In Flores already I had met a girl that was going to do the same trip, so we bought the tickets together and joined up for a few days.

In Palenque the first thing I did was try to get money with my card and I succeded, which really calmed me down a bit. Mexico here I come...
The lonely planet said,that the best place to stay was slightly out of town and so we headed there and found a place quite easily. We got two hammocks. It turned out that the full service of the hostel included that they gave us really really uncomfortable hammocks, which they just threw in front of our feet for us to set them up. It was reasonably cheap though.

There were a few things about the place, which could have really spoiled the one night there, which include:
- The toilet was dirty and the shower very simple
- We were staying with four hippis and a dog, who made and sold beads-stuff for a living
- In the village was a small stream that smelled like one would die instantly upon touching it
- It was so hot, that even after dinner, when I had a beer I was still sweating like crazy
- After 2 hours of bus driving we arrived at the blue pools and found about 100 people in them, 15 Restaurants and 50 people trying to sell us stuff. We left affter 20 minutes.

But the good thing was that the girl I met was german and we managed to use german sarcasm to the absolute max and we really had a very good time, just laughing and talking about how awesome the place was. But to defend the place I have to say that there was a good restaurant. (Which was unfortunately packed with package tourists who came from their hotels...). This all might sound quite bad, but I really look back at the time and think that I enjoyed myself. Quite proud of that...

So then on Friday night I caught a night bus from Palenque to Tulum. It took 11 hours and we had to get out twice at army checkpoints. BUT I had the best sleep I had in about a week. No hammock, a bit of shaking from the bus and a good aircon. I litureally fell asleep 20 minutes after the bus left and woke up 1 minute before the bus arrived in Tulum. I have to admit that I took a first class bus though, which was about twice the price of the second class buses, but it had an aircon and was not 30 years old and stuffed with people...

When I arrived here at 7 in the moring I walked to the Hostel I had found in the lonely planet and managed to get a bed immideately. At 12 I went on the bus to get to the beach. Stunning. Turquoise, warm water and white sand. Spend the whole day there, talking to people, hanging around and swimming. Awesome day. Just got back from that now and now starting t0 think what to do the next days. Might stay here for another one or two nights and then head on to Cay Calker in Belize probably. Supposed to be good diving and kite surfing there. Let´s see how it goes.