Honeymoon - Xcaret (2)

The next part of our day involved a trip in a boat through the jungle and some caves. It was a lot of fun!






and beautiful too!





After that we watched some shows...the first was 5 guys who climbed up a giant pole, tied a rope to their legs and then swung down. It was impressive.

The translator said that the ceremony was to pray for rain...they certainly got it!

Next we went up a giant tower that spun so you could see the entire area. It was really beautiful!

There was colourful wildlife all over the place



The day culminated in a fabulous performance which included the soccer/basketball game i described in one of the posts about Chichen-Itza, "fire hockey" which i tried to post a video of but it didn't work...basically they lit a ball on fire and ran it around in a game that was a cross between hockey and lacrosse. You don't want to be a ball hog in that game! The performance had a little bit of everything...at the beginning they gave all of us candles


There were Mayan performances

Performances almost in the audience

Giant heads...

...and even a mariachi band

we left the hotel at 7:20 in the morning and got home at 10:00pm. between underground caves, jaguars, monkeys, wild boars, flying men, giant heads, fire hockey and jungle tours we were never so happy to see the inside of our room