Poor little pinata!

After all those adventures - its back to rafting, kayaking, chicken-chasing dogs and fiestas. Stay tuned for further excitement!

Taxco

Once all the girls said goodbye to each other I took another couple days to visit the colonial town of Taxco (2.5 hours from Mexico City). This is a silver-lover's heaven! Here you can buy silver in bulk and by weight. I picked up quite a few pieces with the plan to sell them in the yoga studio when I return... however its hard when I picked out everything that I would want to wear myself! Plus the girls here in Jalcomulco have also had a go at it... so hopefully I return with something!

Mexico City

After island life... it was off to big city Mexico! Spent a couple days here exploring the city by subway- we visited Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Trotsky's houses/museums, as well as various different neighbourhoods and markets.

Isla Contoy

We did a day trip to "Isla Contoy National Park" from Isla Mujeres... took us about 1 hour by boat and we took turns getting completed drenched on these rides! The island is a bird santuary for thousands of migrant birds (many from Canada). It was truly a paradise - only a certain number of people allowed on the island each day and only about 5 people actually live there. We saw loads of birds, iguanas, hermit crabs as well as marine life while snorkeling like manta rays and barracudas (which we also ate for lunch!).

Isla Mujeres

Isla Mujeres is a 7km long island off the coast of Cancun... used to be a bit of a "backpackers cancun" meaning it was cheaper and not so ostentatious as Cancun. I was there for a fantastic couple of weeks two years ago. The island is still beautiful but a lot of the beach has been washed away after last year's hurricane and there seemed to be a lot more old white guys wearing white socks and sandals than I remember from last time! Nonetheless, the girls and I managed to have a great time!

Beautiful Tulum!

some wildlife, our swing bar, the cabanas... oh and a naked bum

Grand Cenote

Off to the beach!

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So after a week of kayaking... it was time to RELAX! So off I went by bus (20hrs...) from Veracruz to Cancun. There I met up with Denise (new friend from the kayaking week), and Anne and Jill (on vacation from Ottawa).... We had an amazing couple weeks! First Tulum (beautiful beaches- although we someone booked into cabanas at the nudist beach!) A lot of naked dads playing soccer with their kids...

This photo is from our biking to day to search for a Cenote (underwater caves that you snorkel in...)

The group

Waterfalling!

This was the grand finale of our trip - 25ft waterfall! I managed to stay upright for this run... but the second one was a little less graceful! But it was awesome nonetheless!

Casa Esprit

Jalcomulco

So here I am back in Jalcomulco Mexico. I was here 2 years ago with Esprit Rafting for a month or so... its such a great little village. From here we run weeklong kayaking, rafting and multi-sport trips. I arrived in Jalcomulco around the 15th of January and will be staying here until our convoy of vehicles makes its way back to Canada sometime around the end of March! I'll post a bunch more pictures soon. This is a view of the river looking upstream... the little black dog is "Big Ears" a new adoptee and the purple guy is going to be smashed to smithereens at a fiesta this weekend!