While our main purpose for the Cancun, Mexico trip was to visit Chichén Itzá, I decided to add Tulum and Coba to the trip. Limbert, our tour guide picked us up at 6am to drive us to Tulum which is almost 2 hours South of Cancun. We arrived early, slightly before they opened the gates, but were super happy as we were the first people there.
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To enter, you must duck through the opening in the city’s wall. Once through, you are introduced to a vast open area along the coast.
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Once we finished up at Tulum, we headed to Coba which was around 45 minutes inland. Limbert pointed out the celebrity Rose McGowan’s house along the way.
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As it was getting late and very hot, we asked Limbert to do a speedy tour of Coba. Some of the sights are almost 1 mile apart, therefore visitors have the option of bikes or bike taxis. It was super hot, so we opted for the bike taxi.
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We headed to the largest of the temples, which was massive, grabbed some photos and heard about its history.
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We then headed back out to go get lunch on the beach in Akumal at Lol-ha restaurant.
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Once through with lunch, we headed back to the hotel arriving around 3pm. We decided to celebrate our successful trip by going to the speakeasy at the JW Marriott.
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