Mexico – Day 2/3

Day 2 – Sunday

After a good nights sleep, we started the day off with a fantastic buffet for breakfast! There is something for every taste! From fruit to chimichangas to scrambled eggs. We then attended an information session about the hotel and some of the recommended tours and things to do while in Mexico. From this information session we decided to book a few activities that sounded really fun!

We booked these activites/tours with the Transat rep here at the hotel.

Sun = Afternoon swimming with the dolphins

Mon = Full day trip to Coba. With lunch, a visit/our of a Mayan Village as well as a swim in a cenote.

Wed = 1/2 day of snorkling, investigating/swimming with sea turtles and swimming in an underground river .

Swimming with the dolphins!! We swam with dolphins! There was a group of 4 of us. We got to interact with the dolphins for a little over an hour. The two we swam with were both pregnant females. What gentle and caring creatures! We even got to do the ‘foot push.’ This is where you float on your tummy with your arms out to the side and your legs straight behind you spread apart a little. The trainer then gets the dolphins to come behind you – you lock your legs and up and out of the water you go! What a rush!

Night 2 was a relatively early one as we had to be up just before 7am on Monday for our Coba tour.

Day 3 – COBA!

The day started off very early with a friendly wake-up call in Spanish  We got ourselves packed for the day and headed to the breakfast buffet and got ‘a to-go breakfast.’ The bus picked us up at the front of the hotel and off we went. We learned about the Mayan culture and their self-sufficient way of life. The Mayan village that we visited later in the day, was only discovered 8 years ago. Just before we got to Coba we saw a lake created by a meteor that was filled with crocodiles. Our tour guide was FANTASTIC! So full of information! We saw 4  pyramids with Coba being the largest! The info on Coba is too indepth for this blog, but well worth asking us about when we’re home! Today was the hottest day yet this year in this area of Mexico. Imagine walking 4km in +40 weather. People were dropping from our group like flies from heat stroke. Once at the largest pyramid ‘COBA’, Melissa was too tired and hot to climb the 120 stairs to the top. David was a trooper! Up up and up he went! 120 stairs later he got an amazing view as Coba is the highest pyramid in the Yucatan Peninsula. David said that coming down was much harder than going up. The stairs are very narrow and steep. The rock is slick from all the foot traffic. Coba will no longer be able to be climbed by the end of 2009. This truly was a once in a life time experience for David!

Tomorrow will be a day at the resort enjoying all it has to offer!

Hope you are enjoying our updates!

David and Melissa