Road trip to Coba
Our hungry stomach took us to the fisherman’s cove in downtown Akumal. We had 2 big fish and shrimp ceviches and a couple of shrimp quesadillas with iced Mexican beer. Over lunch I talked my mom and my boyfriend over for a quick drive to the pyramids of Coba and they quickly agreed, which took me by surprise.
I didn’t know weather or not we were going to get there before closure, still we stocked to the plan. The drive was not a quick one, Riviera Maya has the longest and boring highways, it took us an hour to get there and for our surprise we made it on time, exactly an hour before closing time.
We rented bikes and drove them for 4 miles till we got to the principal pyramid. We had the best afternoon on top of it; the view at that height was outstanding! The stairway was almost vertical and it had a rope on the side, supposedly to make you feel secure, still my mom couldn’t make it to the top cause she suffers from vertigo.
On the top we saw a large, thin and green snake, which calmly posed for the pictures I took of her. We stood on the edge of the stairway for half and hour with an incredible view of the jungle landscape.
Finally on our way back to the car a bunch of monkeys passed in front of us. At that moment we felt so lucky. We got to Casa Yardena the villa we were staying at, without daylight and we quickly got upstairs to sleep.