Rolo on Tour

When I arrived in Tulum in the Weary Traveler Hostel, the first persons I saw where fellow travellers, whom I had met in Playa del Carmen. Luckily, as I arrived relatively early that day, I could still get some breakfast, the only problem was that I had to prepare it myself. So I got some pancakes and it turned out to be a complete desaster, but at least I was the only person having to eat that ;-). Afterwards I went to the internet cafe next to the hostel in order to write my last blog entry. Well, while I was there, I got surprised by Dominik and Jeremy, so we were back together again. We decided to see the Maya ruins of Tulum, so I went back to the hostel to grab my stuff and ran into Rob and Claire, the australian couple we had played cards with the other day. It seemed like almost the whole Hostel had moved from Playa del Carmen to Tulum!
At the ruins we asked some information guide about the ruins and he said something like: „You have two options to see the ruins. First option: You get there by bus, an informative guide will tell you anything about those ruins and later you will get back by bus. Or you can walk there, just see some rocks and go back.“ Of course we were totally into rocks ;-).

The next morning I decided to be on the safe side and not try pancakes again. Afterwards I got ready for a snorkeling tour, which was offered in the hostel. Unfortunately my expectations for that did not get fulfilled at all: We spent approximately 1,5 hours in preparation for getting to the sea to see some turtles just to find out, that you are not allowed to go in there,  so we were heading back to snorkle in so called cenotes. Cenotes are caves filled with water, where you can swim, snorkel or even dive. The problem was that my fins sucked and I also had problems with my mask, so I could not really enjoy it. Afterwards we were shooting some pictures and I hope I will be able to post one of them, which turned out to be a great shot, really soon here.

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Edit (9.4.11.): Well, I never received that pic, too bad…

When we were diving in the cenotes, we met an underwater fotographer, who was shooting some pictures of us. Afterwards he was trying to sell his pictures by showing us the pictures he made on his laptop. Well one french guy decided that he would rather make photos of the laptop showing photos with his own camera. But what amazed me the most was the fact that the had absolutely no understanding that the thing he did there was clearly wrong.

After getting back from the snorkeling tour I ran into Anastasia, a Journalist from Sweden, who had witnessed my pancake cooking skills the other day. As we all had the same plans, we went to the beautiful beach of Tulum with Rob and Claire.  When we were there, I noticed some big wooden sticks on the beach and I was very eager to get a good picture there with us:

Most Credits here go to Rob, who pushed the self-timer of the camera and managed to climb up there in 10 seconds (and look totally relaxed!).

The next morning it was time for me to say goodbye to Tulum, so I went to catch my bus to Mérida. After some boring 4 hours of not seeing anything remotely interesting on the road I arrived there and went to Hostel Zocalo, where I was planning to stay. And again the first persons I met were Moni and Ingo, whom I had met in Cancún. After I was done getting a haircut we went out to grab some tacos (as I have done nearly every day so far). Later I was shooting some christmas pictures for them on the big square in front of the hostel where I also happened to witness probably the worst clowns I have ever seen in my life.

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