Our first day in Mexico was punctuated by two things, thundershowers and ATV's. We didn't stay in Cancun as we were fleeing from the resorts, tourists, souvenir shops and other tourist traps. Instead we rented a condo just two blocks from the 'strip' in Playa del Carmen. The town is one of the fastest growing cities in the country if not the world. With mega-resorts and condo development, the quaint city with boutique hotels lined along Quinta (5th) Avenida resembles something more like San Francisco's Pier 39 but with turquoise water, white sand beaches and local police/federales carrying M-16's.
We drove north to Puerto Morelos and happened upon an outfit that offered a virtually unsupervised ATV tour on brand new ATV's and a swim in a Cenote- a natural water swim hole where it's rumored that the Maya's sacrificed virgins. I went swimming before I noticed the bats in the cave and heard about the sacrifices. We ended the day by zip lining into the bigger cenote and splashing through the rough terrain in the rain, freakin' awesome!
Ziplining into the cenote (yep, that's me!)
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