You fulfill all my weeshes with your Taco-flavoured keeses.

The theme song for Mexico is “Taco-flavoured kisses” from South Park.

We have arrived in Mexico, enroute to Talum on the coast south of Cancun. We have just changed buses on the Mexico side of the border after a 3.5 hour trip from Belize City in a mini-bus. For the next leg we are now in a luxury coach with air-con and tv screens and a toilet! They even ‘checked in’ our luggage when they loaded the underside of the bus by attaching a destination tag and giving us a corresponding ticket. Very organised!

Now it looks like they are going to put on a movie…

Well the movie never eventuated. Apart from the screen at the front of the bus there were two more screens which folded down from the console with a loud beep-beep-beep further down the bus. They came down and back up several times over the next 3 hours. Perhaps the DVD player wasn’t working?

We arrived at Tulum at 7.15pm. We need to start factoring in a 50% increase in travel time over what we are told by the agents who sell the tickets! Our trip with a 10.30am start from Belize City in an ’express’ bus and two 3 hour legs somehow took almost 9 hours.

Taco-taco, burrito, burrito….

From the bus station we enquired at a couple of places before arriving at Casa Del Sol where we stayed the night. It’s quite nice for a hostel. Couple of big dorms and many smaller rooms around a large communal kitchen area and a huge open rooftop with hammocks.


www.casadelsolhostels.com