Back from Cancun

Wow, that was a great holiday. Before I left I checked the pictures of the JW Marriott, the hotel we would stay in most of the time and the pictures just looked fantastic. I thought there was some Photoshop going on but except from the people shown it looked exactly the same.

After we landed we went to Tulum, a little city 130km south of Cancun and honestly the better place because it has a lot of amazing sights and endless beach with little bungalow resorts which I like really much. We visited som Maya ruins which were just incredible. Also I checked out crocodiles in a lake which where around 2m long.

After 3 days there and several other interesting trips we headed over to Cancun. Basically this part where we stayed, called Hotel Zone, consists only of high class hotels like Marriot, Hilton, Le Meridien, Hyatt, Riu and so on. As I mentioned we stayed in JW Marriott, a AAA 5 Diamond hotel, which was absolutly above everything I expected. Several indoor and outdoor pool areas as big as football fields, spas, Jacuzzi, Tennis fields, amazing breakfast, all rooms with large flat screen TVs, 7 restaurants and so on. I mean this was just a blast. Check out some pictures:

I thought that the pictures of the beach would just one day of the year look nice but the water is even in the low season green, blue whatever. Paradise on earth if there wouldn’t be all these massive hotels. As I have read Cancun 50 years ago was a village of 2500 people basically living from fishing. What you find now is hotels, bars, restaurants, shopping centers, activity agencies and as it is a loved place by the Americans you can find your Hooters, CNN, US candy and all these things which annoyed me a bit.

The Mexican food is very nice, I thought that Hungarian food is somewhat spicy but the salsas offered next to your Tacos, Burritos and Fajitas are just hot hot hot. But good. You still could feel it the day after. And what you get next to every food is some kind of bean puree which I hated before we went there but now I really like it but I can’t see Tacos for a while anymore.

I did the tours I wanted to do. 2 tank diving including the boat was 61$, fishing including the boat and drinks 100$. Not too cheap but definetly worth it. Two things that for sure stayed in my mind, when we were diving down in around 15 meters in one of the reefs the dive master was “calling” us towards him and when he was putting his hand under some reef a shark came out. I was shitting my pants even though it was a not dangerous shark as I heart afterwards. But swimming with a shark wow. Second thing was catching a Baracuda which is a hell of a big fish with teeth like a monster. It was not too hard to get him out but it tooks some work and a beer afterwards. Check out this one:

All in all it was an absolutly amazing holiday which I don’t want to miss in my book of places I have visited but if I should go to Mexiko again one day it will not be Cancun. It is just too touristic.