Day 3 - Tulum

Day 3 - Tulum #mexico2021

Good morning (30 mins ago) but still in bed until everyone (1 person) is awake.

It looks like the forecast changed and there might not be rain today which would be excellent.

We left for Tulum and after a fairly straight and boring 2-hour drive we have arrived at our hotel, LiveTulum. The room isn't ready yet but we can leave our bags and then I guess maybe we'll go see the archaeological zone and there's like a food walking tour we got later

On the highway we got to see really great motivational signs like "drive safe your family is waiting for you", and "after an accident nothing is the same"

Now walking towards the Tulum ruins

Waiting for a guided tour to fill so this is the outside of our hotel tonight. There's a sign here saying Coba is closed but I can't verify, that was part of tomorrow's plans...

Cool iguana while waiting for the English tour to fill

The main temple

Apparently Venus was a fertility god for Mayans too but male, the guide said it's due to other civilizations also being around the tropics meaning Venus was correlated with growing and harvesting seasons, here's a sun temple

Back at the hotel for the day and checked in, it's such an adorable little room, pool is right next to us

I'll put up a few more Mayan pics in a bit but gonna relax before a fold tour thing we booked at 5

Saw that Coba, one of the places we were going to to tomorrow is closed for maintenance which is really unfortunate...

Maybe it's just the ability to walk up the pyramid which still sucks as i was looking forward to that anyway here's wonderwall

Now on to the food walking tour

We're back now and I'm not fully sure what tomorrow's plans will be... As an aside it's so hard to travel blog when you're not alone

Hotel isn't the greatest to be honest, pictures looked better but it's serviceable now onto food pics from the tour

The general idea was that it's a tour of places that aren't necessarily the fancy ones, more things locals would eat at, and aas we're in Mexico it started with tacos at Taquería Maya, i can't recall the names but they were pork

Then it was a tamale with cream cheese and some spinach like leaf that was very good with the red sauce they had at Don Taco

Guide, Jonas, was fun, he plans to start a sports podcast so be on the lookout, place 3 was elote, I'd tried I'd before but I'm still only so so on it

Then mole enchiladas here, mole was a bit sweeter than I'm used to but otherwise good

Finally we had some Al Pastor tacos that were pretty good, we finished it off with some coconut cream based ice cream that would make a killing in cities. The vanilla was yellow for some reason and we all panicked when it was being served thinking they misheard

There was another couple on the tour, one working in FB (now Meta) and the other a school principal from California that had ended up in Mexico because Morocco closed its borders, poor guys

Sidenote boba is everywhere

Bonus super official disney in a Christmas decorated plaza

Ok now it's bed time since we plan to start at 6 to beat the crowds.