Tulum Day 4: More ruins + some snorkling

I thought I had already posted the last of our vacation pictures but apparently I just saved it as a draft!  ooops!  Well, here's our last day of adventure in Tulum! Better late than never!


Friday we went to yet another Mayan ruin.  This one was just down the street and we could ride our bikes there.  Octavio liked these ruins the best.  They were very pretty because they overlooked the beach.  Octavio decided this is where the Mayans went for Spring Break.   We found out Octavio could get in free to all the ruins with his student ID.  We also found out he got 50% off on a snorkling tour so we quickly signed up for that as well!

The entrance to Tulum's ruins.

Landscape in the ruins.

Octavio in front of the beach in the ruins.

Me in the same spot.

Another tiny hallway.

Overlooking the beach.

A view of part of the ruins from a hill. 

ruins & beach.

the beach below the ruins.

a big iguana enjoying his lunch.  Looks like he had a close call with someone bigger than him because he only has a stump of a tail. There were iguanas everywhere!

an entrance to the beach from the ruins.

Octavio in front of the beach.

The voladores from Papantla, Veracruz were there.  I'll never get tired of watching them fly.

After the ruins we headed down to the beach to go snorkling.

Sol was sponsoring a party later and they were just setting up their tents and cases upon cases of beer when we showed up.

Octavio ready to go as we all piled into the boat.

We got to sit in the front of the boat.

and away we go!

the view of the ruins from the ocean.

so pretty.

the ruins from the ocean side.

excited to see some fish!

the ruins again.

the snorklers.  It took us a while to get the hang of breathing through the masks and then Octavio had a run in between his knee and a rock in part of the coral reef.

We had fun though!