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Day 161 - Monday 9th August
Met a Spanish guy and a couple of Mexican girls in the hostel and we all headed down to the beach. Incredible white sands and crystal blue waterl Fairly quiet too so we had a whole stretch to ourselves. At the end of the beach some cliffs rise up and at the top is the set of Tulum ruins. Nicely restored but nothing mindboggling, they're more impressive for their location including a private secluded beach!!
Day 162 - Tuesday 10th August
Cave diving!! First dived 'The Temple of Doom' with my instructor Edwin, literally just the two of us there. Just a hole in the ground with a 3m drop down to the water level you jump in with all your equipment. Best diving entry to date! The cenote system is a series of caves and passageways eventually leading to the sea. The guys who map it dive with 6 tanks and are down for 7 hours! Anyway, there is a halocline where you have salt water and then fresh water above it, separated by a short hazy mixing zone. When you're above it, with no air above you due to the cave, you can see a definitive line and it feels like you're flying over water. Epic. Plus the salt water is much warmer than the fresh water above and so it's very strange to swim between the zones!
Dived Grand Cenote second with better formations but no halocline and more people...
Day 163 - Wednesday 11th August
Visited the Coba ruins, really nice jungle ruins with well preserved courts of the strange Mayan ball game where they have to knock heavy leather balls through concrete hoops on either side...
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