Philippines 2013

There are times like this when I wish I had more pictures of myself! ha ha sucks being that person with the camera

My grandmother wanted to go back home so I took the opportunity to fly with her. I had already used up my vaca days last April when I went to Mexico, so thank God for stat days and thank you Chef for being so accommodating!

It was such a short vacation but Im glad I got to go back home and meet up with some friends. 

I did a looooot of things for a short 2 weeks. To think of it - My HK trip got cancelled already due to a typhoon.

I could go on all day telling you stories about my short vacation but Im sur it would bore the hell out of you so yeah...

I miss home T_T

   

Mexico Day 6 (TULUM MAYAN RUINS)

April 13, 2013

Second day at Tulum and I'm so glad we stayed at the city proper, so much food to try here. So many good restaurants of various cuisines could be found. 

For our breakfast we decided to give Le Bistro a try. Its a small French restaurant and I believe they make their own breads in house as well. Mmmmmhmmm

 

After the delicious breakfast we headed out for the Mayan Ruins in Tulum. It is way crowded and wayyyy hotter as compared to Coba. The ruins are also not as big BUT the ocean view makes it look so much nicer in the photographs.

Its also interesting how Coba and Tulum are not too far away yet their buildings and temples looks really different.

After going around the ruins we ventured out to the beach area of Tulum. The owner of the hotel were staying at pointed out some really great place to hang around at. Its funny how it seemed so close in the map where in reality we've been walking for more than an hour in the scorching weather and we weren't even halfway there.

So we had a pit stop at the Mezzanine, its such a nice cozy place to relax and hang out at. It was located high above by a cliff so it has a really nice view as well. 

Its funny, to think of it, I've had sushi (the worst Ive had to date), French food and now Thai food while at Mexico. haha! I kinda wanted to drop by Mc Donalds while at Playa del Carmen you know. I was curious if they'd have something different - like how we have rice, chicken and spaghetti in the Philippines.

I know, some of you mightve raised an eyebrow at me but this is how Id like to do it. We still go out for some Mexican - Spanish food. I just didnt blogged about it because I forgot to take photos because I was starving haha.  

Like that day we went to Coba, I think i had the best Spicy / Hot sauce / paste in my whole life! I finished the whole container !! The Chef came out to ask how we liked the food, now I realized how it must have been rude only complimenting that paste. But it was seriously good. He told me it was a combination of different peppers all roasted then combined together to turn it into a paste. Mmmm still craving for it up til now. Would be really good to eat with some siomai!

Anyhooo.. So back to Tulum...

I wasn't really hungry yet so we just ordered some satay and these crab-cream cheese dumplings and some cocktails - nothing fancy probably a pina colada a mojito and a margarita. Mexico have the best Margaritas, probably something to do with the triple shots of tequila on it. haha!

We still tried to look for that place the owner recommended but I gave up and somehow ended up at this hip place called the Papaya Playa Project. Its a really nice place for young people to stay at. They have live music and a really hippy, cool, carefree vibe. One day i would also love to have a beachfront resort / hotel and this is how I imagined it to be. Didn't take much pictures.. But we had some more drinks and a vodka cheesecake (I got inspired to try and make lambanog cheesecakes!)

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 

   

Mexico Day 4 (Boat Tour and around Tulum)

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Mexico Part 2 (Fairmont Mayakoba)

April 9, 2013

Day 2 - Serenity

This is what I woke up to. Sunlight - ah I haven't seen you in a while. One of the things I was excited for that morning aside from the sunlight and the beach was the food. Yep, who doesn't love breakfast buffets?

So I hurriedly went to the washroom to wash up and boo!

Gotta love the sunlight while taking a shower. This would definitely be my dream washroom..

skip.skip.skip.

The time I got a DSLR and broke my point and shoot, odd as it sounds but I stopped taking as much pictures. Now its a regret.

this doesn't look appetizing but that white bread (that resembles a pineapple bun) is absolutely amazing! My favorite part of every breakfast buffet is the omelette station! nom nom nom

We head back to our room and surprise! our room was cleaned and we got this lovely card with a painting of this bird, facts about it and weather forecasts for the next day...

OOTD picture time. Hi ya!

Did I ever tell you about the golf carts that roams around the resort? They are the means of transportation around. The beach is kinda far, and I never tried walking to there.

infinity pool by the beach

Its just sad that the sea isn't calm during my stay at Mexico. They put up these warning flags along the shore, it was always red (dangerous) while I was there. 

Since we cant really swim in the sea we decided to go back to the main pool (which was the biggest pool in the resort)  instead and ended up sleeping haha!

We woke up around 1pm? and decided to head out to 5th Avenue. People over the internet says this is a tourist trap. Its kinda like a flea market? streets are lined with shops, cafe's, art galleries, bars etc etc. I haven't done much research prior to the trip but we wanted to see where the people goes to... 

We also decided to have our late lunch / afternoon snack but the plenty restaurants and cafe around made it so hard to decide. I don't remember the name of the place we went to, for sure it was a Mexican restaurant.

The usual, wasn't able to take a pictures. heres one i grabbed from virtual tourist and trip advisor

This photo of 5th Avenue (Avenida 5) is courtesy of TripAdvisor

We checked out the public beach over this side and was shocked about all the junks and cigarette butts in the sand. So we decided to go head back to the resort.

It was already starting to get dark by the time we were back at our resorts beach. It was just the two of us which was nice but kind of creepy too. there's a lot of this bat looking birds flying around haha.!

We tried using up the film of our underwater camera but the waves were so strong so I ended up scraping my knee on the rocks. 

My boyfriend was funny! this is a side of him that I haven't seen before. He was so worried and even called for a life guard for first aid. haha! It was already late so there's no one watching the shores. He went to the nearest restaurant and asked for first aid so they had to call and radio for the first aid. When the life guard arrived my boyfriend was telling him not to use any latex on me or I might get an allergic reaction. :)