September 18th - Cenotes , Peurto Morelos

Thursday ( September 18th) 

Cenote Buca De Puma

 One of the things that figures often in things to do in a mexican trip is the ‘cenote’ experience. Cenote is an underground pool, created naturally with stalactites and stalagmites and nice cool water and swim challenges. 

        Since none of us were swimmers, I just wanted all of us to have a taste for what cenotes were.  As concierge moves were good so far, I sought concierge advice again on the best cenotes nearby. Against that plan, I hit a cenote but as the water was deep, we tried the next cenote as advised by the owner of the first one. Cenote water is cool and nice, the uniqueness of the experience, the natural beauty that you see were good value even when we could not take in the full experience as we could not swim around and discover the cenote for ourselves.

Niya also had great fun and she ranked the cenote over the beach and she is a big beach lover. Divya took her turn at the swim as well. We had the cenote exclusively for ourselves and it was nice and fun.

      

On the return walk back to the next, there was another open cenote which was again deserted, probably because it was closing time already. 

         Cenotes had cost us our lunch but luckily none of us were hungry even as we were leaving after 5PM.

Peurto Morales

Driving through mexico is fun as the roads are straight and well shaded and nice greenery on both sides. Next up, we were to go to the fisherman's town of Peuoro Morales as that offers nice seafood and is an authentic town without the tourist traps. On the way, I gave a lift to Andrei, who works at the next cenote. And as luck would have it, he was going to Peurto Morales and helped us decide and reach the ‘Las Playitas’ restaurant. 

We placed one fish fry order which meant two fishes to account for the one kg served. The fish fry was soft and nice as were the shrimp quesadilas that Niya left behind. Also nice was the beach and live music.

 Cancun

Having taken a return flight from Atlanta to Cancun , the trip would be incomplete without at least some understanding on Cancun as put forth by Divya. So that is what we did and we gaped at the luxurious hotels in the ‘Zona Hoteleria’ and it seemed to be much much more than any of the US cities that we have seen so far. 

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