Tulum is a beautiful Mayan ruin built right on the Caribbean coast. It is absolutely stunning. It is a major tourist destination. One of the advantages of being a major tourist destination is all the fun stuff outside of Tulum.
Remember the cenote where the fishes nibbled on us? Check this out – they have marketed it!
There were people with monkeys and baby lions and a lemur. Boa constrictors, warriors, iguanas, street performers! And vendors selling lots of stuff that we could get much cheaper all the other places we’d been.
We spent several hours looking for a great place to stay along the coast. We couldn’t really find anywhere that fit our needs so we settled here. The location was super close to Tulum – just across the street although not quite as luxurious as the hotels next door and all around us. It didn’t have any electricity, water or other facilities and it was a wrecking yard, but hey, it worked for us – we stayed the whole weekend.
Being around this magical Mayan site brought up Castle’s intuitive abilities and he started doing palm readings 🙂 He read all the boys palms, I only caught Wade’s on video – he had us all laughing. Listen to his response when Caleb says, “Castle read Mom’s palm.” The boys thought it was pretty funny. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhqIC7qnWI]
- The Mayan Spa where fish nibble on your toes!
- Street performer
- Guy with an iguana
- Cool (empty) fountain
- Willie and Castle at a sanctuary outside Tulum
- Warriors
- Guy with lemur and monkey
- Baby lion
- Monkey!
- Noah has a monkey on his head
- John with a lemur on his shoulder.
- Lemur – his fur felt like sheep wool.
- Baby lion
- Shops outside of Tulum
- Doing laundry at the wrecking yard. We hauled water in 5 gallon buckets from the gas station across the street.
- Our only neighbor, the iguana.
- Home sweet home at the wrecking yard.
I just realized Jesus is standing behind John while he is holding the lemur. 🙂