Mexico, the Yutacan with its ants and an expensive bag of crisps...

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Hey all, Im currently sitting in an internet cafe at the busy bordertown of Chetumal, as we await to board a bus to a new country, Belize! But let me tell you what we have been up to in the last week!<br />
Hey all, Im currently sitting in an internet cafe at the busy bordertown of Chetumal, as we await to board a bus to a new country, Belize! But let me tell you what we have been up to in the last week!

Since I last wrote, we satisfied our culture vulture needs, and visted the ancient Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza. A good tip is to get there early, because plagues of tourists tours bombard the area by noon. Luckily, we managed to have the pyramid almost all to ourselves. Its a fascinating piece of ancient architecture. Its mighty challenging also - with no rope of safety net to hold onto, it is a case of get on your knees and start climbing pyramid - but the views at the top are well worth it. The whole complex is quite awesome and extremely interesting to see the mystery of the Mayan remains, including a ball-court where it is believed that basketball games were played, where the players played their hardest to become the winner - rewarded with the most bizarre trophy of all - their sacrifice to the gods! Sounds very much like a Mayan version of "Mad Max" gone wrong!

We got out of Chichen Itza early afternoon to move away from the swarms of snap-happy touristicas and pressurising ornamental sellers; and venture into another brilliant cenote lake. This one was much more bat-friendly than the previous cenote, and included a massive 15 foot jump off a cliff. I plucked up the courage and bombed off it, slapping my body to worried cheers on the way. Despite Dad being severely scared of heights, me and a few Italians persuaded him to run and jump - he did, made a splash but lost his contacts and googles! Whoops. Take a look at the photos to see how pretty this place is. Definite recommendation.

We retired that evening to the cinema and watched a hilarious, if not confusing SPANISH version of Charlie y Fabricad Chocolate - which I hope you can guess which film that is, although Jonny Depp with a Spanish overexcited dubbed voice, isnt quite the same!

Valladoid is worth going to for the ruins, but not a lot else. There simply isnt much else to do. In our time there we only found two very average restaurant/bar combos, so by the next morning it was time to get out.

So we grabbed a bus to Lonely Planets "backpackers haven" known as Tulum. We wanted to stay in a beach cabana, so got a taxi to another LP recommended hotel. It looked awesome, 20 metres from a tropical beach, own beach bar, restaurant and disco, and lots of other travellers. However, be wary of the true standing of the idyllic sounding "beach cabana", it turned out to be 30 US dollars for literally as basic as you can ever get. They asked us to wait to clean it out, but we werent quite sure what they did to it! The beach cabana is about 6foot by 7 foot, and contains two beds, two holey mosquito nets, and a slab for a table. Thats it! For 30 dollars! More importantly, it had no fan (or window!).

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