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| Sidewalk down the road to the beach |
Later in the day, the wind kicked up and it started sprinkling. At some point we paid our tab and left and started walking towards town where we grabbed a taxi back into town. When we got to our room, I realized I didn't have my tennis shoes. Tennis shoes are a crucial element when you're walking lots of kilometers. They were nice tennis shoes at one time, but thank goodness the tread on them was wearing down and it wasn't like I'd gone off and left a brand new pair of $100 shoes for the daughter of the taxi driver to wear. They probably had 200+ kilometers wear on them. What to do? Try to find another pair of tennis shoes while looking around for our driver/taxi just in case he still had the shoes in the backseat.
Note to self: start writing down the taxi number of any taxi we get in because I'm sure to leave something again.
Scoring Tennis Shoes
We wandered around for no more than 15 minutes in town when I looked across the street and above a storefront I saw I sign that read: Zapatos - tenis, etc. etc. We went inside and within a few minutes I walked out with a pair of $15 USD Nike's. I guess they're knock-offs but they fit and look nice and I was good to go celebrate our good fortune.
Food and drink is cheap in Tulum town. It's the one thing I suppose I have to thank the European wandering deer-in-the-headlights backpackers for. (I'm not a fan of theirs, you know. Generally speaking, they tend to be dirty, unappreciative, insensitive and never leave tips while demanding impeccable service IMO) If you happen to be a European backpacker and this shoe doesn't fit then put the shoes back in the taxi! OK, I ranted a little.
We walked and looked around town, ate pizza for dinner and people-watched the night away sitting at a sidewalk restaurant.
Iffy at Ziggy's
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| Sauntering Along on the Beach |
The next morning we got up, ate breakfast and asked if our room was available for another night. It was. We put on our tennis shoes and walked the beach road again. We walked until we arrived "at the curve" and the sidewalk becomes non-existent and then we caught a taxi down to Ziggy's beach club. Again, a 6+ KM walk. The weather turned iffy on us so rather than pay the pesos to hang out in the impending showers at Ziggy's we walked the beach until the rains came.
Naked Neighbors
We ended up taking cover under a structure that we were told was for a Mayan fiesta. While hanging out there, we ended up sharing it with a photographer, his beautiful, thin, and naked subject and his assistant. He was photographing naked girl with a cute hat on, on this bed-type thing made of bamboo that essentially rolled down the middle of the structure up above our heads that ran on a rail when you cranked a huge handle at one end. We met the guy that built it as well and he was very proud of it. I was glad when the rain stopped; Terry not so much.
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| The Mayan Festival Thingy made for Great Cover from the Rain |
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| Beautiful Naked Girl Came Along Up Above Us |
Back to Ziggy's
Once the rain stopped, we walked back to Ziggy's and had a nice lunch in their restaurant. Later on, we headed back to the beach sand and walked all the way down to the end of the hotels along the beach. Yes, it was a long way on the beach but it was fun to see all the beautiful beaches and beach clubs, and reminisce about the area from the last visit we took to Tulum some 4-5 years ago. There were quite a few more hotels built "at the end of the road" since we had visited. At the last hotel, we walked through the beautiful, jungly grounds to the narrow street and caught a taxi back into Tulum town.
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| Walking Through the Jungly Grounds |
The Restaurant with No Name
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| Delicioso Pulpo for Dinner |
Deciding where to eat dinner is always fun. After walking the streets, stopping for drinks, getting cash, and going to the bus station for tickets for the next day's journey, we headed to the restaurant we had eaten the coco shrimp and squid at, and I got my pulpo. We're going back to that place again.
What??!!! A Mirador
We were curious about the stairs that led to somewhere beyond a third floor of the hotelito. When we took them, we discovered a wonderful fourth floor mirador! We love having a mirador and it's one of the things we look for when deciding where to stay. We never asked and the hotel staff never mentioned they had a huge mirador with tables, lounge chairs and a great view of Tulum town. After dinner, we had drinks up there and watched as the bars next door filled up with all those people that sleep all day and stay up all night. There's a lot of them in Tulum town. There's the day crowd and a whole different night crowd. We're members of the day and early night crowd. This night, the music wasn't quite as nice as Stevie Ray Vaughn but we had a great bed, a loud a/c, and all was good with us and the world.
Tomorrow is travel day.
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| Looking from the Mirador |
Next - Beautiful Beach #2
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