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Monday, December 3, 2007
Los Lobos Hostel, Grand Cenote, and Town of Tulum


Monday morning at Los Lobos Hostel

↓ Mary eating on the patio. We were packing up the food we had stored in the shared frig. ↓
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↓ Los Lobos Hostel. Everything is outdoors here. Even the lobby ↓
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0716 LL Lobby

↓ ↑ These 2 pictures could have been pasted together. This is where the owner/manager lives apparently. ↓
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0717 recepcion 2

↓ The wall safe in our room. Very creative I thought. The room itself wasn’t large enough to get a picture of. ↓
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0715 safe

↓ The sign on the toilet reminds us that in the Yucatan Peninusla,
as in many countries,
the sewage treatment systems are not designed to manage toilet paper residue. ↓
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↓ A flowering tree at Los Lobos ↓
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Monday morning at Grand Cenote

↓ That’s Mary going down the steps into the hole. ↓
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0723 down steps

↓ In the water under the tunnel; in the other direction was a large cavern with stalactites and pillars. ↓
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0727 in water

↓ Blue water over white sand. ↓
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729 blue water over white sand

↓ Through the 100-foot tunnel to the adjacent (and rather different) cenote.
See the legs?
We did not take the camera into the water; this was shot from the dock, with the telephoto lense. ↓
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0734 tunnel

↓ This one has a sandy beach, but not much water. ↓
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0735 of the 3 of us

↑↓ Joe went up onto the rim to take these 2 pictures. ↑↓
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0736 joe above 2

↓ Orchids growing in one of the trees of the smaller cenote. ↓
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0741cr orchids

↓ Looking through the tunnel back to the larger cenote ↓
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0744 tunnel back

↓ Joe with ferns ↓
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0745 joe w ferns

↓ Back in the larger cenote; Joe on one of three dock areas here. ↓
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0750 Joe on dock

↓ Crowds are growing. (We were the only people here at 8:15 this morning; it is now 9:30.) ↓
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0751 crowds

↓ Scuba folk arrived for deep exploration of some scary places here. ↓
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↓ Grass roof construction techniques ↓
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Monday morning on the road through Tulum, the town.


Coming into town.

↓ Another very common set of signs requesting you respect the speed limit (40k/h) and diminish your velocity.
The tiny specks of light across the roadway are the speed nubs reflecting the morning light. ↓
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60cr street signs

↓ Here’s a close up. They don’t look bad, but you soon learn to slow way down. ↓
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↓ Cristal bottles water and soft drinks. Part of the Coca Cola Company ↓
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↓ A quick tour of the main street of Tulum ↓
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↓ Tulum ends abruptly. This is the open road immediately south of town. ↓
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