Playa Del Carmen:
Well, when we reached Tulum, it was the beginning of the influenza epidemic. We followed the news by internet and that was not looking too good. Our first intention was to head off to Merida after Tulum but by precaution, in case of the situation worsened, we decided to move to Playa Del Carmen, 45min from Cancun Airport but far enough from Cancun to avoid the crowd of tourists.
When we arrived to Playa Del Carmen, there were some tourists. When we left the town was quasi deserted. Lots of tourists had taken a plane earlier than planned and lots of them had canceled flights. For us, we stayed in a nice hostel close to the beach, following the news and reassuring our parents that everything was alright and that the epidemic was not as bad as people were thinking at the beginning. Also in the Yucatan peninsula, no case of flu was detected. So after a week of farniente {white sand beach, playing cards, siesta...}, we decided to carry on our trip and we headed off to Merida.
- Playa Del Carmen is a touristic destination but less crowded than Cancun. A part of the coast is covered by hotel resorts like this one in the picture,- But we stayed in the town centre where the beach was quite empty and mostly used by locals,
- These pelicans were carefully looking at the sea for some food. Very impressive to see them diving at a good speed in the sea to catch fish!!- While we were staying at the hostel, this cat was visiting us every night just for diner time!! It was very shy, a little wild too. It would not approach us except if we were at 1m from it,
- But tempted by some nice food, I could take this close picture. It didn´t look very happy!
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