We mostly stayed on our resort named Melia Azul for most of the time, only escaping to the flea market across the beach or the Island not far away to go snorkeling.The resort itself was gorgeous, it had everything needed, it had multiple pools, a mini golf course, games, and a beautiful beach.
And FOOD! The food was wonderful, there were so many restaurants onsite some of them were buffets others were a la carte. Also there was food from all over the world not just Mexico, there was Italian, Chinese, American, Seafood, a grill and some fancier places.
With all these things to keep us busy it was a vacation and not a trip. For those who don't know the difference a trip is when you go to a foreign area and visit as many tourist attractions and you get very little rest. It's one of those things where you use a guide book and go to the tourist information centers and just go go go all the time. A vacation on the other hand is when you go somewhere with the plan just to relax, no plans, no guidebooks.
Our Mexico vacation was a Vacation we lounged and read most of the time, we went swimming in the ocean (the pools were too cold). we played volleyball, drank various blender drinks.You get to see a crocodile here and it was down the beach not even a kilometer away it was "fenced" in with a big gaping hole in it so the crocs were known to occasionally get out of their area. Thankfully they are well fed so there haven't been any incidents.... or well that we knew of.
The people hanging upside-down are Mexicans doing a sunset salutation. This consists of 5 guys climbing this super tall pole tying a wound rope around their ankles and throwing themselves down this pole with one of the guys staying on top of the pole doing some drumming and throat singing while they come down in a spiral. It is quite wonderful to see, as well as mesmerizing how people have the guts to do this because this is not the safest equipment.
This last picture is the view from our hotel room, which was wonderful because all the rooms in the hotel had an ocean view. as well as a different animal on the bed. My favorite was the elephant with the fresh flowers. and that spot of land in the distance is where we went snorkeling and had an awesome Pina Colata served inside a carved pine apple with a face made of fruit on it. It was called Coral Island and rightfully got it's name with all the beautiful coral and fish that were there, plus they were attracted there because people were feeding bread to them allowing them to become very friendly with people and letting us get really close to them without them freaking.
It was a wonderful vacation, if anyone wants a good resort in Mexico, I haven't seen others but I loved this one plus they came to pick us up that the airport with Coronas for us to be dropped of at the Hotel.
With wishes of warmer days and the sound of a beautiful ocean this is where I finish!
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