Mexico!

Well, we're back from another trip, this time 10 days in Mexico. Sharon has been hankering after a relaxing holiday (apparently youth hostels don't do it for her), so this was Craig's compromise - a luxury resort, but with a few things to do nearby so he didn't get bored sat by a pool all trip.



The hotel was lovely, although the all-inclusive food and drink was a bit of a temptation... champagne breakfasts followed by a couple of mid-morning cocktails meant that by the afternoon we were pretty much slumped on a sun-lounger!



This was our local iguana. He wasn't as good as the little geckos at getting rid of insects for us.



We did get out and about a bit though - there was no way Craig was going to be so close to Mayan ruins and not get to them!

First off was Chichen-Itza.




Apparently, they liked skulls...




The Yucatan peninsula is full of sinkholes and underwater rivers. This is one of the sinkholes (or cenotes as they call them), where we went for a bit of a swim.



Next up was Coba, with the tallest Mayan pyramid in Mexico. It was absolutely pouring, and the whole place was pretty much submerged.



Coba is also the only Mayan pyramid in the Yucatan that you can still climb, so we trekked up to the top to look out over the jungle.



Next up was a trip to Xel-ha, billed as the worlds largest natural acquarium. Actually, it's a river inlet which they blocked off from the sea so all the fish are stuck in there and you can guarantee seeing them. Did some snorkelling, inner-tubed down the river, and Craig did some cliff-jumping (very unelagantly!), but the real highlight here was swimming with dolphins, especially doing the footpush.



The final set of Mayan ruins we went to was Tulum, which had a lovely setting with jungle on one side and beach and ocean on the other side.



After Tulum, we went and did a activity day type thing, which mainly meant zooming over the jungle canopy on a series of zip-lines! It was great fun. Then we did some rappelling down into a cave, and did some swimming and snorkelling in one of the underground rivers.

At some point, we may even put up our Slovenia photos, which we've so far failed to do...