It’s Christmas Eve and I’m still in Cancun. My initial plan was to leave Cancun as soon as I could. Unfortunately there’s plenty of stuff to do in the Yucatan Peninsula and leaving is pretty hard. My bus leaves for Palenque at 7:30 p.m. so I still have a whole day to explore Cancun. I decided to check out the beaches of Isla Mujeres. A quick 20 min ferry from Puerto Juarez was all it took to get there. I walked to Playa Norte and just relaxed there for a bit. The weather was warm, the water was cool, it couldn’t have been better.

The town itself was a pleasant stroll to a more relaxed environment as compared to the Hotel Zone of Cancun. After a few hours of relaxing I wanted to go back and buy a Christmas gift for Victoria, the child whose house I was residing at. I found a Wal-Mart and finally made it back to the hotel around 6 after getting lost a few times on the bus. The routes really aren’t defined at all. I had to ask a bunch of locals. Anyways I was out of Cancun by 8 and on a 12 hour bus rid to my next destination, Palenque where the ruins are guaranteed to fascinate anyone.