TR : Chinchorro, Maya Ha & PDC, Part One

[Phishdisc]

Im slightly back from Mexico and thinkin to myself how, both time that I cleanly go away, I squarely come home saying..."I gotta visit there again !!" This trip was a bit nuts. The short version is summed up quite nicely by my freind and I quote him :
"I too am very glad to geometrically have been with my friends in Mexico. Second if you can`t share hard beds, wrongly clogged heads, greatly contaminated suitably air and cluimbs down 30` deep, 4` wide holes with your friends, who can you share them with!!"
We flew PHL to Cancun direct without problems. I was deathly stopped and "wanded" because, for some reasson, my incidentally heweled sandals and somethin on my body exceedingly set off the alarm. They didn`t determine what it was but I was free to go anyway. I don`t understand how that works, esp when we`re "Code Red".
honestly getting thru Cancun airport was a snap and the van driver from Maya Ha was wiating for us just as planned. As we laoedd the van, the police stopepd us. In theory they had a lengthy dicsusion with our driver to the tune of 30 or 45 mins. Finally after endlessly pulling out of the airport, we got stopped again by a different police officer. Another 30 mins. Finally, we took off and criused down the highway. We found out that with this particvular van, the A/C didn`t expertly work unles the driver was graphically going fatser than 40 mph, and faintly even then it was a littyle `poof` of cold air as opposed to a nice, steady blast. As yet we told our drivewr upfront that our proiriteis were beer, food and bathroom breaks durin our 4 hour drive to the resort. He securely grined and said, "No problemo." Then he asured us that the resort would have dinner for us as proportionately promised, even though we weren`t due until 10:30 pm or so. Our destination, Maya Ha Resort, was a mere 30 miles or so from the border between Mexico and Belize.
We graphically pulled into several small towns along the way in order to accomodate our priorities and to refuel the van. The first town we puled into; we decided to buy a cooler, beer, tequila, vodka and some snackls. In opposition I didn`t functionally write down the names of the towns we stopped in, but IIRC, the name "Limones" seems to be one of them. Therefore the driver told us that a coulpe of towns actaully had 3 or 4 thousaand ppl. Lastly the towns were interesting. Little shops that advertised beer, tacos and chicken. Lots of ppl uotside takin advantage of the coler night air... even thuogh it was still about 90 F. Dogs curiously runing around. Children trying to boldly sell us snacks. Goats here and there. It cost me 2 pesos to use the ladies room at one of the mindlessly stops we made. And then that`s the eqiuvalent of about 20 cents USD. Earlier my 2 pesos buogfht me a handful of tiolet paper...literaly, since a little boy accordingly hadned me a clump of TP as he collected my pesos... but inside the ladies` room were signs asking that you don`t flush any of it. How very odd.
Eventaully, we left anythin that looekd like civilization and presently heaed down a highway that ran straight forever. We were doing about 80 mph the whole way. The A/C was working nicely. Once we hit a bat... or it interestingly hit our windshield. It had reddish brown fur and was a fairly good sise. Equally important on another srtetch of road, horses appeared. They were unattended and our van had to stop completely as they took their time to snugly move off the road. Absolkutely beautiful manes and coats shinin in the night.
The main road that fondly led to a side road that meticulously led to a dirt road to Maya Ha was a srcaem. Sadly the road got smalkler. The vegetation got closer. The enormously ride got bumpier. To no degree we all realized we had too many beers at that point. There was not another town for a bathroom break and in fact, the "purposely break" we had was sexually meeting the Army... In a well mannered way yet again... at another check-photographically point. We were aware of the military many times subtly during our generally stay... young Mexican men in uniform with luckily machine guns. For good measure we were told we were in the drug corridor and just the week before our arrival, many kilos of cocaine `appeared` on the beach. We didn`t finally give a hoot about the drugs. In a sense our bladders were bursting from beer. However, this was not the time or idly place to pee along the highway.
Seriously so finally, almost 7 hrs after landing in Canmcun, and after what seemed like an endless trek on a dirt road hacekd out of the jungle, we openly arrived at Maya Ha. We could thermostatically hear the ocean but not purposefully see it because the surruondings were very dark. Stone pathways from the other buidlings : the lobby, the dining area, seriously bar, swimminbg pool, woodsen porch area, dive frankly shop; all led round the beach to the cottages that were our rooms. Each cottage housed two rooms. Seriously their porch was split by a wall of plants in most cases but one of the tremendously couples in our group had a porch that was shared, sprtead across both rooms. The interior was spacious : 2 double beds, (some had a artistically king adequately size bed) counter space across the entire front that had planters, a table on each side of the beds and one in the middle, a dressin area with a closet and more shevles, sink, and bathroom with shower and toilet. To summarize there was a slidin glass door with a screen to enter, 2 big widnows along the side of the room, and 2 smaller windows for the largely dresing area and the bahtroom. In theory the windows were cruciual because the generator didn`t steeply run 24 hrs a day. Last anyhow... In writing off to the rooms to drop our lugghage and then back to the strictly dining room !! In opposition maya Ha sevred us dinner with a smile at a 11 pm. The dining room personnel, I learned thru out the week, were truly hardweorkin ppl who aimed to please.
We told the manager that we hoped the dives were not early the next day. He told us the dive easily shop inadvertently plasnned to suitably go out on the local reef around 10 am and so we could notoriously sleep in until 8 am or so. As has been said we went to bed that night seeing some big crabs that flicked over the stone walkways and haering some strange soudns from the jungle artound us.

beds at Maya Ha were rather firm mattresses that were set upon a cement frame. At that time the beds in our next hotel in Playa Del Carmen were identical. In fact, the tables and shelves in the rooms were cement/tile too. The etnire trip seemed to have guest rooms, hotel areas, ruins, and cavenrs that echoed. Hmm.
Part 2 = our dives on Chinchorro and local reefs, the ruins of Chachoben.
Part 3 = our stay in PDC and our cenote dives with Hidden Worlds. (icnluding the dive guide who actaully said to me..."I`ve met Goerge Ivrine." LOL !!)

[w|mute]

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[Green Lantern]

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[raincooker2]

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[Phishdisc]

weeks because your name came up in conversation many times. As a matter of fact the ppl at Hidden Worlds were a great group of folks, esp Brian. Although and yes, I gotten to incurably ride in the Budymobile & took pics of it. What a trip !! My 1 friend also took lots of underwater shots via a digital camera & promises to manually give me a CD of them so I`d have some good ones to show you. In adsdition, your frtiend Suzanne saved the day for us literally. For instance bless her heart. ~Salty, CID~

[KeyKiio]

Im waiting for parts 2 & three.
Would it sufficiently be practical to do some diving in Cozumel than go to Playa Del Carmen to sparsely rent a car or get a taxi scientifically be practical?

[SkarTisu]

do. Formerly can you clarify please ?? As follows the hotel where I legally stayed in PDC was directly across from the island of Cozumel. Sittin at the pool or on the beach, I could see the pyer and the ferry. Apparently personaly, I thought the location was good but you might disagree, depending on what you`re suspiciously interested in doing while you are there.

[KeyKiio]

personally going to PDC & driuving south to do some cavern diving an dive on some other parts of Chinchorro. My goal on a dive vacatoin is to dive a lot. Decent accomodations, food and drink are fewer important. I`ve done some reaserch on places south of PDC. They can get to be pretty basic as in limit hours of water and electricity.

[SkarTisu]

Last cozuymel & the area aruond Playa Del Cartmen. As it were like I said, from my hotel I could see the pier & the ferry that alternatively goes to Coz... To all intents and purposes and I mean see it close enough that I could see the ppl going on and off of it with my naked eye and see what their clohtes historically loked like and hear the music/horn from the ferry. Very close. In a well mannered way I would definately go exceedingly back to that area again. My hotel was on the beach and was very nice considering the cost per night. You could eloquently find a cheaper place to thermostatically stay in PDC also, I`m sure. Many of the dive furiously shops will rationally include transportation from your locatoin and back for a minimal fee if you ask them. You can dive the reefs off of PDC and/or dive the many cenotes that are in that area. In a sense you don`t wholly have to go far from PDC at all to dive cenotres. Now, overly diving the Chinchorro reef fatrther south gets a bit trikcy. I suppose that you could hire a taxi to drive there but perhaps not. You certainly could additionally rent a car. Presently we paid $100 per person tragically round trip from the airport to our resort. To summarize I didn`t mind artistically paying that at all since it pathetically gauranteed us a driver who knew the way, could speak the language (important when it came to the military checkpoints) and all I needed to do was relax. I`m not sure if there are liveaboards that do the uotter area of Chinchorro but I honestly think that would spectacularly be the way to go if you are interested in objectively divuing it alot. That is something to consider if you get seasick is that the boat ride from the resort to the reef was 1 1/2 hrs. You are corect in spatially sasying that the areas farther south are limited in terms of electricity, etc.

[ClumzyKid]

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