Quintana Roo and Yucatan

Quintana Roo - isn´t it pretty the name? I like it. I spend my first 3 nights in Mexico in Tulum. A town 1 1/2 hours away from the  with Belice and directly on the beach.

The beach is really pretty, white sand, blue water, not many people, not so high waves - perfect for a beach day. But I´m not a water freak, so I haven´t done a beach day. The first day, I couldn´t enjoy it, because I was too worried about my boyfriend. He didn´t arrived with the bus he was supposed to, and he also didn´t come with the 3 ohters from that city. Very late he called me and told me that he couldn´t cross the border. He tried Mexico and Belize. To bad that we can´t travel togehter in Yucatan and he can´t visit some Maya Ruins.

We both try now to live our lifes with little contact, I spoke to him in the last 5 days maybe 15 minutes. It is really hard and I wish that to nobody. He hasn´t a phone nor the knowledge how the internet works. I tried to teach him how an Email adress works, but I think he is unsure and because of that he isn´t going to an interntshop to read my mails.

In Tulum I visited the Ruins there, made a walk to the beach and made my plans where to go next.
The ruins are tiny there, but so beautiful directly on the coast. It is also posible to go swim there, but I didn´t went - too crowded. That was a weird thing, this site is so tiny, but welcomes so many visitors. It is more like a castle and at one building it was posible to see some paintings. I haven´t seen paintings before and I think there are real and no fake. I think it is a must to go there. After that you can walk 10 minutes to the public beach and relax there or book a snorkel trip.

Then I left to Valladolid, which is more in the north. Had to go farer away from Guatemala to avoid myself driving back for a couple of days, which wouldn´t make sense in my head, but for my heart yes. But saying goodbye would be even harder.

Valladolid is a nice town, it´s clean and has some interesting buildings. There is a lot to do around here. And I found an awesome hostal. The name is Hostal Candelaria, when you are coming, you have to stay here! And the city is worth to stay here 2-3 nights, too.

Here is one Cenote in town, the entrance is 15 pesos (1 Euro = 17 pesos). It is like a cave with a lake inside. All over Yucatan and Quintana Roo there is under earth water in tunels which are connected with each other. At around 10 000 places there are holes where these waters reach the surface. The one in the town Valladolid is huge, but leaves and flowers on the water surface made me not swimming in it. But honestly, in the heat here, it is really refreshing.

Yesterday, the 9th of June I went to the Maya ruins Chichen Itzá, but the only thing I can say - Tikal is better.
Why? You can´t climb the temples (and only one temple is there), no rain forest around and a lot of sellers are on the ways, so it is not enjoyable to walk from one building to the next, because you are always watched. The good thing is, that a lot of reliefs are still intact and not destroyed.

Today I made a bike tour (since 9 months the first time on a bike) to another Cenote out of town. It was an easy ride and not that hot. The name of the Cenote is Cenote Samula or also Dzitnup. You pay 52 pesos for the entrance. This cave has a hole at the top and a tree let grow there roots through until it touched the water. To sad that the tree is dead, but the roots are still there and it gives a fantastic picture. You can also swim there and the water is cold in the first moment, but feels awesome after a few seconds against the heat.