Yucatan Peninsula — Day 2 — Punta Allen

Step 1. Leave Tulum head­ing south. Stay on the coastal road.

Step 2. Drive to end of road.

Step 3. Once in town, drive to end of road.

Step 4. Stay in beach cabana on prac­ti­cally pri­vate beach.

Require­ments: faith that the town really exists at the end of the road and bug repel­lent. Snorkel gear wouldn’t hurt either.

Sure, sure they offer day tours down to this town within the Sian-Ka’an Biore­serve, but that is not suf­fi­cient. I sup­pose the boat tours are great, but this was such a relax­ing and beau­ti­ful place to be that tak­ing one wasn’t even nec­es­sary. We took a walk out to the black lagoon, and nearly stayed there an extra day. As it turns out we kept find­ing inter­est­ing spots and sights, but I think I would have also been happy here for a few days. At night I think there were 2 other tourists in town — had to be the case we only saw two other for­eign­ers at the one place open for din­ner. Plenty of ex-pats, but where can’t you find some wild grin­gos down there trans­planted for the immense beauty of the region?

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Blue heron road­side attrac­tion on the way down. The drive was part of the fun.

Too great of a heron to not show another shot.

Local build­ing inspec­tor #23

double-crested cor­morants

said won­der­ful beach­side cabana

local crab action

vis­it­ing tourist action

The watch­tow­ers have not fared so well over time through hur­ri­cane season.

Crazy striped iguanas

This brown pel­i­can was fish­ing on our way back. Another great road­side attrac­tion on our way back.

Incom­ing!!!

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Time to hang out for the afternoon.

Watch­ing the tours look­ing for something.

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