My Adventure in Cancun

Even though it wasn't really "Outdoor Adventure" type stuff, but it was an adventure for me in other ways. I got to see a completely different culture where it is very different than here. I was really lucky as in this trip was a gift from my mother for my birthday, and she allowed me to take one friend along with me. I decided to choose Piers, a friend from my program.

The biggest reason why I picked him is his previous travelling experience and knowledge of how to stay safe in foreign countries. I think because of him I didn't get nearly as ripped off on bartering on the street. Also knowing where good places to eat and not eat.

The first time we had the chance we took a ferry from Cancun to an island called Isla Mujeres, fairly close to authentic Mexican culture. The Cancun resort area is basically a Las Vegas rip off, where all the prices and attractions are all the same as here or the states. But on the island if you go to the right area's you can get amazing deals for cool souvenirs and good food. The first place we stopped at when they brought us the dip, it looked really healthy and filled with veggies and sauce, but we had heard that we should watch out because sometimes the kitchen may not clean the vegetables enough and we could get malaria, or something. So me and piers flipped a coin, we called heads, and it landed on heads, so we ate. After that we basically stopped flipping, the food was so good everywhere we went it was amazing.

There was this one small restaurant that we found where for 90 Peso's, which is about 9 Canadian dollars, I got three fairly large pork steaks, with a helping of steamed veggies, tortillas and dip, and some papas fritas (french fries). It was so delicious, and for a good price.

Its kind of scary sometimes how different we are to them. Our cultures are so vastly far between. You can see it in how they all sell things to us at markets, they rely on us rich North Americans to come down and buy there stuff for fraction of the price it would be here. Our culture supports many peoples lives down in Cancun. If we all stopped going there, there entire community could collapse. Next Post I will tell you all how Chichen Itza was. Prelude, it was AMAZING.