Mexico, vacation, sun, sand and palm trees, part 1

Winter of 2018 wasn't really cold and exhausting, but it was long (as usual) and it was still a winter. And it is always nice to escape the cold weather and enjoy some bright sun, blue sky and turquoise sea, isn't it? Just relax and forget about everything, leaving all troubles somewhere else for a while... 

The Idea of escape was very appealing, but we didn't want to fly across half of the World and be exhausted after this flight... so Mexico looked like the best choice ever. Caribbean coast of Yucatan peninsula, nice climate, warm ocean and always Summer, what else can you dream of, huh? :). So one early Thursday morning we met a sunrise at the DIA and boarded the plane on our way away from March in Denver.

 

After just 4 hours in the air, we landed in Cancun, which wasn't our final destination point. Everything was different there - humid air, green plants all around and heat... not really heat, just around 80F, but still much hotter than Denver those days.

We discovered our luggage and ran to the Alamo office to get our car. Yeah... it would be much easier to get a shuttle and not have any hustle with renting the car, but we can't resist having some freedom and to be able to move around just because we wanted to, without any schedule or dependency. That was a busy time for the rental company, but soon enough we were driving along a highway through the jungle to find our destination - Sandos Caracol Eco Resort next to Playa del Carmen town.

We will talk about this resort a lot, I believe this is a pretty unusual place (or at least we found it this way), but later. Not at this moment...

After about an hour of driving we got there, dropped our bags in the room, grabbed a cup of coffee and went to explore the surroundings... We wanted to see the sea and even to start sunbathing (not really our thing, but how can we didn't?).  

Don't be surprised... there will be a lot of palm trees, flowers and animals in the pictures. As well as blue sky and turquoise sea. So hard to resist catching all of these again and again. But now I just would like to start with our first impression of this amazing place and I hope you enjoy it (in pictures) as much as we did (in person).

Everything looks different at night... The colors are not the same and the shadows... oh these huge shadows, they change everything!

Please, don't be surprised to see tables with souvenirs here. It is still a resort even if it looks more like a fairground at night time. So many people never left the resort, so every other day the market came to them, offering everything they could wish to buy and bring back home. Pretty convenient, isn't it?

To read the next part click here Mexico, vacation... Chichen Itza, part 2

Pictures were taken in March 2018.