Tulum

Tulum is my ultimate favourite beach destination in México. It is tranquil and stunningly beautiful. If I ever retire myself from the real world and decide to become a real hippy (which I’m sure many of you don’t doubt will happen in the near future) this is where I am going to live. It is also a very romantic place with little love huts on the beach and nice boutique little bars and restaurants along the beach serving amazing seafood and cocktails just a short beach walk away. It is heaven.

So myself and my lover Steffi made our way to our own little love hut on the beach. Unfortunately we were a couple on a tight budget so we went for the cheapest nice option we could find. This turned out to be a yoga resort. It was a beautiful resort but ironically I don’t think you could find two more anti-yoga personalities than myself and Stefania. Keep calm just doesn’t exist in our dictionaries…(half Italian, half Bosnian; you can thank our mothers for that). So while everyone else did yoga we drank and played music on the beach and generally were our loud usual selves. Besides on one occasion there were some particularly kinky-sounding groans coming out of the main yoga hut, which made us both sceptical of what kind of “yoga” was being taught here….this is Latin America after all.

The most fun part of our hippy-esque hut was that after 10ish they would switch off the lights in the whole area and we would use our torches to get back to our hut. This, as you can imagine, was a fun experience even on a sober night. On the night that we discovered 2for1 cocktails in a local karaoke bar where we were the only guests all night and the bartender was extremely generous with his alcohol to juice ratios in an eager attempt to keep us there and get us to sing (the latter he didn’t succeed in thankfully), it was a down right adventure. Either way it was a lot of fun and nobody was hurt or eaten by any jungle/beach inhabitants (despite a few false alarms).

And before you go judging us, we are of course classy and cultural ladies, and despite our busy schedule of relaxing, eating and drinking, we still managed to fit in some Mayan ruins as well. The Tulum ruins are on the coast and this makes them to me the most beautiful ruins of them all and if it’s really hot while you are there, you just pop into the sea to cool off. Amazing! The ancient city was also called Zama (dawn in Mayan) back in the day, because it was so close to the place where the first rays of sun hit the coast. It was one of the most important port trading communities in the region and because of its privileged location it could trade with all of México, Central America and beyond.

It is such a lovely place, I honestly recommend it to everyone and I couldn’t think of a more beautiful place and a more beautiful lady with which to spend my final days in my most beautiful México 🙂