Back from Mexico
While I purge my body of whatever mexican food is laced with, I truly enjoyed my trip to our southern neighbor. Last week was spent at the Valentin Imperial Maya resort in Playa del Carmen. The place itself and the service was unlike anything I have seen.. it was relaxing. I am not really a person for too much relaxing and I can be honest to say that if I spent another week down there, I would be unhappy and bored. I will post videos and pictures as I get them downloaded and edited.
I have no idea what is in food in Mexico, but each progressive day I spent there, I felt worse and worse. I am starting the bounce back slowly but surely. I still don't have much of an appetite. One weird thing I have noticed since I have returned and also while I was in Mexico was I craved sweet. Only time that I actually crave kool-aid over anything else. I wonder if it has something to to with my uneasy feelings in my stomach. I just hope I didn't get some stomach parasite or something. Maybe this lacing is the water, that I hear isn't the best to drink and the hotel assured that things were made with bottled water.
One thing I noticed as well is the stark contrast of living conditions or focus on tourism. You have a grand sprawling resort with every amenity imaginable right next door to a family plot with no plumbing. It isn't just one place I saw this.. it was everywhere. It shows the lengths a poor country like Mexico will go through to get outside dollars. Right now things are backfiring because of the swine flu scare. Swine flu is not in Cancun or anything down there. People should know that it is perfectly safe to go down there on vacation. My resort was probably at half capacity or less at my guess with other resorts people staying at showing the same. A tour that my gf and I went on to a mayan village was the first people in 2 weeks to go on that tour when they usually go 3 times a week with an average of 8-10 people each. We were lucky in that we had basically a private tour all ourselves of Coba, a swim in a cenote and a mayan village lunch. It was nice we had a private tour, but it was a sign of the times down there. The swine flu scare is just making a slow tourist season worse.
Now I need to relax before going back to work on Tuesday. They should really have given me a sticker or t-shirt for climbing a mayan temple in Coba because man my legs are still sore.
I have no idea what is in food in Mexico, but each progressive day I spent there, I felt worse and worse. I am starting the bounce back slowly but surely. I still don't have much of an appetite. One weird thing I have noticed since I have returned and also while I was in Mexico was I craved sweet. Only time that I actually crave kool-aid over anything else. I wonder if it has something to to with my uneasy feelings in my stomach. I just hope I didn't get some stomach parasite or something. Maybe this lacing is the water, that I hear isn't the best to drink and the hotel assured that things were made with bottled water.
One thing I noticed as well is the stark contrast of living conditions or focus on tourism. You have a grand sprawling resort with every amenity imaginable right next door to a family plot with no plumbing. It isn't just one place I saw this.. it was everywhere. It shows the lengths a poor country like Mexico will go through to get outside dollars. Right now things are backfiring because of the swine flu scare. Swine flu is not in Cancun or anything down there. People should know that it is perfectly safe to go down there on vacation. My resort was probably at half capacity or less at my guess with other resorts people staying at showing the same. A tour that my gf and I went on to a mayan village was the first people in 2 weeks to go on that tour when they usually go 3 times a week with an average of 8-10 people each. We were lucky in that we had basically a private tour all ourselves of Coba, a swim in a cenote and a mayan village lunch. It was nice we had a private tour, but it was a sign of the times down there. The swine flu scare is just making a slow tourist season worse.
Now I need to relax before going back to work on Tuesday. They should really have given me a sticker or t-shirt for climbing a mayan temple in Coba because man my legs are still sore.