As promised back in May, I've finally got myself organized enough to post about our trip to Mexico!

Horray!

We stayed at the beautiful El Dorado Royale, in Playa del Carmen. It had superb ratings for food, which was very important. And on that front, it didn't disappoint. The food at all of the restaurants were amazing! My favourites were the Italian restaurant, d'Italia, and Pacific Rim restaurant, Kampai. We also loved the Health Bar for lunch - I had the same chicken sandwich and strawberry almond smoothie every day, and never tired of it!

We attended the "Islands" night at Fuentes dinner theatre, a five course meal themed around islands of the world. We opted for the wine pairing, which I had never done before, but I will definitely do again. Though it may be the reason for my missing a photo of the last course. The missing first course was just me being mindless!

1. Shrimp from Hawaii  2. Tuna from Japan  3. Pulled Pork from Jamaica  4. ?? from Iceland

While we were there, we took a day trip to the ruins at Tulum and the Xel-Ha water park. The weather couldn't have been more perfect for a day outside!

The ruins at Tulum was also known as Zama, or dawn, because of its location where dawn first breaks in Mexico. The community was a commercial port; it was an active redistribution centre for local and foreign products, from places such as Central America, the Pacific and Gulf coasts and Central Mexico. by sea, river and land .routes.  Its began at the time Hispanic navigators arrived on its shores and islands.

The ruins at Tulum

The bottom left picture is the building known as El Castillo, or The Castle, and it is the most imposing building at Tulum. It was likely also to have been the most important. Its facade would have been painted in bright colours and decorated with sculptures, and the corners had large stucco figureheads. On both sides of the staircase there are two small temples. Offerings that filled the air with scents and colours would have been placed on the altars here. The upper temple is where main religious ceremonies were performed.

Greenhouse!!

The rest of the days we sat by the beach or the pool. We only had about an hour of rain the entire time we were there, and it was on our first day - not too shabby!


I even managed to get a bit of my Dutch homework done!