and there's even more news...

...yep, that's true. i still haven't finished my "report" on all the things i saw and did here. hope it's not boring!!! well, not for me anyway.

so, after having been to that nice club med hotel (great pool) in uxmal on friday we went on to valladolid. on our way there we climbed into a real nice cave where we saw mayan remains that were dated thousands of years ago. it was a 2 km walk - all under ground and very impressing. you can see hand printings quite similar to those found in europe (which are about ten thousand years old).
and the whole cave was full of bats, bad bat shit and stalaktites.

after having seen that, we went directly to valladolid, a quite big city in the center of yucatan, where we spent a nice evening and the night.

early sunday morning we went to a lovely cenote, which is an undergroound cave (again - the whole peninsula is stuffed with caves) half-filled with water, where one can swim in. these cenotes are spread all over yucatan, some of them are closed, others are kind of half-open so that there's sun light hitting the surface of the water.

after a quick stop and swim there we drove to coba, which is another huge site of mayan remains - mostly pyramids and monoliths. it's such a large site, that we rent some bikes to be quicker. that was fun and quite different to the visits on other sites before.

well, and in the evening, after my sister and i grapped some stuff of hers - in the small town where she's normally working and living - we went via tulum to playa del carmen, where we are since.

playa is a very touristy, but nevertheless nice city on the caribbean coast of yucatan, or better, quintana roo, as the state here is called. a lovely but very thin beach (due to the last hurricane last autumn) with the whitest and coolest (temperaturewise) sand i've ever seen and beautifully coloured water. a lot of u.s. american tourists gather here, but i can live with that - for a week...

after the busy last week it's really cool chilling out a bit now. reading and swimming as much as possible, hanging around the pool and in bars at night - what a leisure. mmh, that's holidays!

i hope i made you're a tiny bit jealous now and if: i don't mind, hehe!

so see y'all later and have fun.