Tulum - September 17th

Today is when we go for the Tulum conducted tour that was awarded to us grudgingly after the failed promotion event a few days back.  We reached just on time and got a chance to interact with a few other guests at the Mayan Palace / Grand Mayan.

        A slightly elderly couple that we had considered to be from one of the African nations befriended us and we realized that they were from Guyana and were originally from India three generations back when the forefathers had been brought in as plantation laborers. They still have indian names as Shekhar and Neenavanti and they have named their son Rajendra. They don’t know exactly where in India they are from and they were looking to settle around Santa Fe for the reason that it is easy to blend in the crowd. I think it is a case study right there.  

            Then there was another couple, the wife who has worked twelve years without leaves and is currently taking more than three weeks every year. Nice friendly people. 

         Since this was a promotion tour, we had to start off with a tour of the jewelry factory called Lapiz Jewellery where we ended up buying a color changing ring from a Turkish salesman. I was just reading through the reviews of the jewelry now and see that they are not the most trustworthy around. 

 After that, we had our complementary burger style lunch and then a guide took us to the Tulum archaeological sight overlooking the ocean. We took turns to babysit Kitta while we climbed to the edge of Tulum bordering the ocean. 

Niya is clearly a budding photographer judging from her serious concentrated captures. 

         Then we just had enough time to quickly see the sights the guide had explained about and then get back to the hotel. 

We just rested in our room for a few hours and then went again to the beach which was getting dark and just had some time on our favorite swaying cot. We had our dinner from the italian restaurant Tremonto within the resort. This was a pretentious restaurant where you come in suits and not the kind you walk to because you have not planned where to have your dinner. For the first time so far, I received a tad unfriendly service. But to make up for all that, there was an awesome live performance of the violin by a single senior person in his suits , the amplification and the output from the Bose speakers were so perfect that I just closed my eyes and listened to the violin dissolving into the music. However, this dinner holds the rank for the least pleasing of all dinners we had as the prices were uncomfortably high and the place was too pretentious for the general warmth and down-to-earthness of the people here that we had come to love.

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