Tulum/Xpu Ha

Well, it's our last full day in Cancun. We had set up our tours when we first arrived last week and had scheduled the trip to Tulum (a set of Mayan ruins on the Carribean coast) and a visit to palace resort's hotel Xpu Ha. Unfortunately this morning, we both woke up with stiff necks. But hey, we're troopers. :) So on with the tour....
Our first stop were the ruins at Tulum (also the name of the nearby city where we made all of our phone calls from during the hurricane trip). We actually liked these ruins more than Chichen Itza. Probably because they were about 2 hours in bus closer and their proximaty to the sea. They are newer than the Chichen Itza ruins (they guess around 1000 yrs old), but not really in any better condition. It was very cool to see.

After our visit to the ruins and a short stop at a souvenier stand, we headed over to the Xpu Ha Palace Resort for lunch and snorkeling. It was quite different than the resort that we are at. We were told that they had originally intended it to be a nature park, but later decided to add a few bungalos. It has a small zoo, nature walk and some natural inlets that we snorkeled in. There were a few cool fish. Pete enjoyed snorkeling quite a bit.

We got back and started to pack. We finish off the trip with the a short trip to the spa tomorrow before heading to the plane. Hopefully American Airlines will actually keep the flights on time.....ha, ha, ha, like that's a possibility.