Russ and I signed up with an off ship, small group excursion with Native Tours out to the Mayan ruins in Tulum. We walked from the NCL dock to the ferry dock, where we met our tour guide Audie, a Lebanese American, working in Mexico.
There were ten in our group from Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Disney, and Norwegian. We boarded a 45 minute ferry from the island of Cozumel to the mainland, transferred to an air conditioned van and drove another 45 minutes south to Tulum on the Yucatan peninsula.
Our guide was extremely well informed about Meso-American history and culture and kept us enthralled with wonderful stories from start to finish. Tulum was built around 650 ad. , destroyed during the Spanish conquests, recaptured by the jungle, refound in 1956, excavated, and opened for tourists in 1960. The setting of Tulum is on a bluff above the ocean where 10-15,000 Mayans once lived before being conquered by the Toltecs and then the Spaniards.
We returned to Cozumel about 3:30 in the afternoon with just enough time to do a little shopping and enjoy a walk along the Malecon enjoying the sculptures
and enjoying some ice cold beverages...beer and margaritas, before boarding the N Jewel at 4:30, casting off the lines and heading to Belize. This is definitely a Worrall Wind Trip! Sure is wonderful being back in Mexico, even if only briefly.
If it's Wednesday...it will be Belize in the morning.
Cheers from the Worrall Travel R's
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