Isla Mujeres :)

As I always work 6 days a week I do not have a lot of time to travel but as I have changed a shift with my friend, I had "extremely long" mini vacacions (1 and a half day off) and I was able to go to Isla Mujeres that is actually really close to Cancun. It`s like a half an hour by a ferry.
the funny time has started already in a ferry where I was able to listen to life music by crazy Miguel Angel that was trying to make the best of him and I actually liked it so much that I tipped him. He was dancing, screaming, playing the guitar with a smile that never came out from his face. It was a good beggining of vacacions.

 Me and Miguel Angel in the background

Miguel Angel dancing

In isla mujeres I stayed in the only hostel that is in there and it`s called Poc-Na. I liked it a lot in there and as we are always sending the people from our hostel to them....I had accommodation for free. They have this crazy beach party in a hostel that everyone talk about and also every day they play the live music.
Once I got there, I met lots of people that were staying in my hostel in Cancun so I already had lots of friends. We just enjoyed our time in the hammocks, playing volleyball on the beach and listening to the music while drinking beers on the beach. Pure relax.... 
Next day we went to the beautiful Caribbean beach that was just 200 meters from the hostel (playa northe) and I have spend there the whole day swimming in the sea, admiring the sand that have a color of the gold and the beautiful coral reefs , looking for the shelves and of course lying under the palm tree. I think I just needed it after 4 months of pure party in Cancun. I have stayed there until the sun set that was just stunning.

During the whole day I had only short break of the beach and I went to eat one of my favorites Yucatan cuisine that is a lime soup with a tasty soft chicken inside. They have a great food in here but I think that I should write a post dedicated just for the Mexican food. You will be able to read it soon. I promise.

Lime soup

To be honest, my plan was to rent a bicycle and see the whole island but it was to hot to do it. Of course I could rent also the motorbike or golf cart but as I am really stubborn and I imagined myself on a bike in this island, I didn't change my plan and I decided to go and see it in the future on  the BICYCLE  :P:P I just have a strong character :):) But I couldn`t imagine more relaxing day.
I was planning to come back to Cancun with the last ferry that leaves at 11pm but as I met more great people I decided to stay one more night and wake up at 4.30 am and take the ferry at 5.30 am just to get to work at 7am. And I did, as I planned. It wasn`t so easy to wake up after one hour of sleep but I completed my mission and got to work at 7.

What can I tell you more about the island....
- it`s really calm island where the most popular communication  are the golf carts, bicycles and motor bikes. 
- They do not sell the alcohol after 9pm to help the local bars.
- The local bars close at about 12 am and most of them have this unique look that catch your attention and you want to enter every of theme
- ferries depart every half an hour,  it takes also about half an hour to get there and it cost 70 pesos one way ticket from Puerto Juarez, Cancun
- There is this really famous underwater Mayan museum so if you know how to dive... I really recommend it.
- If not.... you can just go for a snorkel trip.

So I would say that Isla mujeres is a pure relax with a crazy beach parties in the hostel :)

different cultures, different people, different lifes!

So there is this cleaning woman in my work that doesn`t know how to write. How to read she has learned from the bible when she was about 40 years old but she`s always so optimistic and has a really big heart. Once she told me that before she didn`t believe in god but then...she started to read the bible and it gave her strength to save a money for a house...to raise her children and gave them opportunity to study and learn stuff that she and her parents couldn`t afford.
It`s not even that her parents couldn`t afford it but her dad thought that education is not so important but the most important is to work and be able to have own house. Now...she told me that for her happiness and wealth means to have own car, house and that`s it. She can never understand me. She always asks me...what will I do later...I'm 24 and I should already have a husband, children and of course house and car and then I tell her that for me the happiness means different thing.... For me being wealth doesn't mean to have a car or house. For me wealth means to know the other languages and cultures... see different countries and landscapes, to discover, to see stars from different perspective. For me it means happiness. But I can not blame her for having different kind of view.... Thats her way of seeing the world and all of us are different. We were raised in different conditions and cultures and we need to respect decisions of other people.
So we all are different but as long as we are happy with our life.... we shouldn`t change the way we live :)