Screw Cancun

Basically, Cancun was everything I thought it would be. We ended up having English military men staying in the hostel. Don't get me wrong, they were all lovely guys, but I don't think they had decided which way they swung yet. All of them had some form of encounter with the lady boys who were popular around our back end of Cancun (no pun intended). I'll leave what they got up to to the imagination, but they went out in dresses and came back missing most of their clothes. It was all very amusing to watch.

For the cultural side of things we went on a tour to a cenote (an underground cave with a lake in it) and then to Chcichen Itza. The cenote was gorgeous and Chichen Itza was very interesting as we had a guide explaining everything to us. However he was quite militant and I got told off a few times for falling behind which made me feel like I was on a school trip. But I am now officially quite nervous of the December 21st, 2012 doomsday predictions. By the sounds of things, the Mayans were so ahead of their time they put the 60's to shame. They invented mathematics and had a distinct understanding of time, much more so than us. I would recommend looking it up, but the Mayans over here firmly believe in either a massive change or the end of the world, and they make a compelling case.

We are now on La Isla Mujeres which translates to the island of women (it's misleading, so far I've seen crusty hippes everywhere and quite a few men). But it was named that by the Spanish for a reason I coudln't here as the tour bus had air conditioning that was so loud I couldn't hear the tour guide. We made it over on a ferry and it's instantly a different pace of life. Our hostel (Hostal Poc-Na) has a beach bar and stucco cubby holes where we sleep. Beautiful beaches and much quieter than Cancun - this is more what I had in mind! Not the hedonistic horror that is Cancun. I didn't come here to lose brain, I came here gain an adventure.

But as I sip my Corona I feel I am ingnoring yet another English traveller who has joined us along the way. But before I go, I'm just going to add that a Norwegian guy who was travelling around with us for a while woke up this morning in the middle of the street and had been robbed by a lady boy. He had no idea that he had left the club with a lady boy and the look on his face was priceless when we told him...