A Perfect Beginning to the End of Our Walkabout

Bienvenidos a la Playa en Puerto Moreles

We left Chetumal at exactly noon and rolled into Puerto Moreles via 2nd Class bus at about 4:30. The thing about doing this trip second class was that is was Labor Day so many people were not working and thus not taking the bus. Also, there aren't a lot of towns along the route which means there aren't a whole lot of pickups and dropoffs. The bad thing about it is that on "travel day" we eat/drink virtually nothing because we are never sure when we may get a bathroom break in there. We went through Bacalar and for the first time got a good look at Bacalar Lake that runs for several kilometers right along the highway. I read somewhere that it is actually about 50 miles long. It's referred to as "The Lake of Seven Shades of Blue" and after seeing it from the bus window we can understand why. Ironically, on one of our previous trips on ADO we had watched a movie that was filmed on the lake. There are some nice photos of Laguna Bacalar on this website. 

The total cost for this trip was $292 pesos...about $12US/ea. The PM bus stop is just off the main highway so we caught a taxi for $20 pesos and told him to take us to La Posada El Moro. The beach part of town is a short 3 km. or so from the highway. There are mangroves on each side of the rode and a super nice sidewalk the entire distance. Upon entering the town, you notice right off that it is clean, small, has plenty of restaurants and sidewalk cantinas, and it has a cute town square with the beach just across the street.

The Pool area from our verandah

We didn't have reservations but checking with the Posada was a place to start. Wow! So glad we made it here. Such a quaint inn nestled amongst a shaded courtyard with the nicest staff ever. There was a great pool area and a large 4th story palapa with a 360 view that overlooked the Carribean. We reserved for two nights and said we'd decide whether or not to stay or move elsewhere on day 3. Oh, and we had upgraded to an a/c room!

 

Second Story room

Rolling into a new place is so much fun. Immediately we knew we were in love with Puerto Moreles. It is a world apart from closeby Cancun and Playa del Carmen. After putting our backpacks in the room, we took a look around the inn and then decided to take a walk to the beach - a couple of blocks away.

The town itself has clean, white sand beaches with a few small hotels/condos, beachside bars and restaurants, some nice private homes, plenty of places for a massage, and Puerto Moreles has remained a fishing port so the pangas are moored off the big pier right in the middle of town.

We were both hungry for plain ol' Mexican food after the time we had spent in Belize. We ended up at a little restaurant called Dona Triny's on the edge of the square and ate at a table open to the sidewalk. It was just plain good Mexican food. After dinner we asked our waiter where we could go to get a bottle of wine. He directed us across the street and we bought a bottle of wine then went back to Dona Triny's and had our waiter open it for us. We sipped wine on the 4th floor palapa and took in the sights and sounds of the streets below. We could hear music playing and see people sitting in the little sidewalk cantinas and restaurants along the street.

Our room was very nice and had a super comfy bed. In fact, it was so comfy that when Terry asked me the next morning if I had heard all that thunder and wind or seen the lightning when the storm blew through I didn't know how to answer him. What storm?

Both us knew the clothing optional resort "Desire" was on the outskirts of the town of PM. Who wouldn't be curious to take a walk by just to see what you could see? Childish, immature...who cares?! We take walks every morning, right?