The trip

Record of my adventures / food diary
Covering gap year travels and my year abroad in Mexico!
....And now also providing procrastination from my internship

Friday 30 August 2013

Vamos a la playa, a mi me gusta bailar!

So 10 hours on a bus with broken air conditioning and no windows, having had no sleep, was not the best way to start the trip! We arrived at the beach (supposedly near Acapulco) possibly suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion! We were in the middle of nowhere, miles from anything, with just one small restaurant to get food / drinks. Not exactly the set-up we had been led to believe before! By the time we arrived just wanted to go in the sea to cool down, but we had to setup the tents first. Let me note here, I hate camping by the beach, I don't recommend it and I won't be doing it again! If you get over the discomfort and unbearable heat (which you can't avoid as opening the tent would mean being eaten alive by mozzies) then it's the fact that sand gets everywhere and 2 weeks later I'm still finding it in my bag/stuff!!
The plus side to being in the middle of nowhere was the beach - so nice. And as far as you could see in either direction there was no one/nothing else! Just us and out little collection of shade! (Definitely needed - soooo hot). The beach and water more than made up for everything else! Water was so warm aswell!

During the day we just chilled by the beach, played volleyball and attempted to skimboard (in my case just a succession of faceplants/impressive falls!) oooo, also saw a giant turtle on the beach that a Mexican guy had spotted from like 1/2 mile away! Went turtle hunting in the evening but didn't see any. Had an awkward moment where we were sure we had seen turtles in the distance so all start running towards the shape shouting 'turtle' only to get a bit closer and realise turtles don't have legs.... Maybe turtle hunting after drinking was the downfall!
Friday / Saturday night there were 2 parties with an open bar. Was interesting tasting mixtures but no-ones going to complain when it's included! Friday was neon/paint party and Sat was just 'white Tshirt' party. Also on Sat there were a whole bunch of Chinese lanterns. We didn't quite get the timing of all together down, so was like a few here and there but still looked pretty!  

Beach parties were pretty awesome and cause was almost full moon meant we had a good amount of light all night aswell!
Trip back on Sunday wasn't as bad or long. Thankfully we stopped for food like an 1 1/2 in at first place we passed and all raided the small supermarket! However the AC was still not working very well despite them assuring us it had been fixed...


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