Mexico, Part 2

Well, this is pretty much our last full day in Mexico, we went on a tour to the ruins of Coba and Tulum, and also to a cenote, and a cute restaurant by Coba to eat lunch. It was my favorite day of the trip. Totally recommend this trip, it was small only 6 people where on it so we got to talk with our tour guide alot, and the other people in our group, and we also got to get to know the history of the people. That was by far the best because these people where from the Book of Mormon times, and it really brought it to life for me. Next time I think I would like to take an LDS tours just because it would be amazing to see it from that point of view.

This is at Coba, it was huge, we had to rent bikes to ride to the big pyramid or it would have taken to long to walk their, plus there was ruins all the way to the big pyramid to stop and talk about. This is the ball court, it was a game, kinda like basketball.

The bikes we rented, it was about 2 miles to ride to the big pyramid, and it was HOT!

You could also rent these, people would peddle for you and take you down. After having climbed up and down the big pyramid, plus riding down there and back I kinda wished we had done this route but the bikes where pretty sweet as well. Totally worth it to go see it.

One of the ruins on the way down to the big pyramid, I think it was the astronomy tower.

The tallest pyramid in Mexico, Coba, I can't remember how many steps, I think it was like 127 steps to the top. Totally worth it to go up and see the top, but oh my heck was it steep! Very scary to climb down! Climbing up wasn't so bad because you weren't looking down at how steep or how far down it was.

How steep it was to climb up and down, and the stairs weren't exactly big or like the stairs in my house all sorts of different sizes. This is the only one in this part of Mexico that you can still climb for now. I don't know how much longer it will be that you can climb it but totally an very sweet experience.

View from the top!

This was the ruins at Tulum, this was really cool because it has all be excavated and it wasn't to big, but had lots of buildings in it, and the beach on the other side was gorgeous! This is the main pyramid at Tulum, I think it's called El Castillo, but not sure about that one. You can't climb any of these ruins. But very cool to see the city. It was completely walled on all three sides, the one that wasn't walled is a cliff next to the ocean. Pretty protected from invaders.

One of the buildings.

The beach behind the ruins, absolutely gorgeous! Totally recommend it!

More ruins!

This was the restaurant we ate lunch at, VERY HOT SALSA! Burned my poor mouth! We had just finished the Coba ruins, and had went swimming in a cenote, which is an underground fresh water cave. It was amazing! I didn't get any pictures just because there wasn't a place to set our camera, but you could jump in from about 25 feet and me and Riley both did it, I was the only girl from our tour that did jump in from it. I ain't chicken!

More of the beach behind the ruins at Tulum, I absolutely love the clouds in the background, makes it look so mystical and cool.

View from the top of Coba, alot of trees is what you can see, but again totally worth going to the top just to say that you did. There was a lady climbing down in front of me that was bitter about going to the top and telling people the view was just as great from half way up, well it bugged me because if anybody stopped they wouldn't have the satisfaction of saying they climbed to the top. I wanted to say something but didn't I held my tongue. But I am so glad I made it to the top, it was definately worth it!

Well, that was our trip to Cancun, the airplane rides were a little rough for us but so happy that we went and got to experience this amazing area of the world. It was totally worth it! I loved the trip! (Keep reading updated with the other half of our trip).