Ahhhh back to Playa Del Carmen and Starbucks!!! Yes a Starbucks only half a block away from our hotel. Traveling around Central America one would think the coffee would be exceptional. It’s not. In fact, we found it terrible. There were few espresso bars and the coffee used at guesthouses and hotels were schwill. We […]
We realized we hadn’t really had many beach days to ourselves, only a few days left on the trip, so today we are going to the beach!! We took a cab to Tulum Beach where we bought a hammock and table-cloth from a little salesman with dreadlocks, who was into “Lucha Libre” (or professional wrestling). […]
We left Tikal at 7:30am after a wonderful birthday trip to Tikal. Heading from Tikal, we thought we might spend the night in Chetumal, Mexico and then move on to Tulum in the morning and then spend the rest of our time there, before flying back home from Cancun where we had started. Leaving Tikal was hard, and we […]
Tikal Sunrise Tour – A Birthday to Remember Often traveling around, you get the chance to pow-wow with other travelers and get some ideas of where YOU want to go. We had heard from some other travelers, that watching the sunrise at Temple IV of Tikal was something special. We knew right then, that this […]
Tikal National Park is to Guatemala what Angkor Wat is to Cambodia or the Taj Mahal is to India. The Guatemalan people are very proud of the history and culture the Tikal Ruins represent. And rightly so considering it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. We were excited to be able to explore […]
Traveling via bus in Central America is common for travelers and locals alike. Not being familiar with how the transportation system works can be frustrating for foreigners. You are typically sold a ticket for a certain kind of bus and told vaguely how things will work. More often than not things do not go as […]
We woke up refreshed and found out we were doing our wreck dive today!!! The dive is at a wreck of a ship called the Halliburton. Evidently this was a ship that they used for some sort of shipping and was going to be destroyed or dismantled. The people of Utila bought the ship and […]
Yesterday we missed out on the whale shark excursion due to a hangover. Evidently we really missed out since they saw 8 whale sharks. Today we started our PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course. You can pick 5 “specialties”. We chose Deep, Navigation, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, and Wreck. We did two dives this morning, and […]
Today was our rest day. We were out late last night partying with our Instructor, Divemasters and friends we have met on the Island and slept in today. Spending the entire morning doing nothing and most of the afternoon, we did go catch a great sunset with our friends George and Christina while waiting for […]
Well, it we did it! We got our PADI Open Water SCUBA certification and our instructor said we did great. We both got a 90% on our final and got our picture taken for the ID. We were pretty happy! We had two dives today. And they were even better than the first two. I […]