February 23-29, 2016
As soon as notherlies light up a bit, we sailed to Puerto Moreles where we stayed in El Cid marina.
The weekly rate was $0.75 and amenities included restrooms and showers (with water!), usage of lavanderia and access to the all inclusive resort (pools, bars and restaurants), but it was not free, so we did not use much those facilities. There are manly local fishing and entertaining boats parked at this marina, and the movement of the tourists starts very early. Turned out that our checkin papers were not in order at all, so, the next day after arrival we had to travel back to Cozumel's authorities and request one final and most important document. That was fun too, because otherwise we would not visit Playa del Carmen, which is a gem of the Mayan Rivera. From El Cid marina we walked to Puerto Morelos town (about 40 min), where we first had a break in a very cute french coffe house (I got my favorite green juce!). Then we took a publico bus (8 pesos) to the carrera 307 (main interstate road) where we got in the bigger public bus going to Playa del Carmen (44 pesos). There are three different companies who run frequent ferries to Cozumel, and we got on UltraMar (about $10 per person). In Cozumel we got an important paper (after we made the authorities to call the person in El Cid), and we are back to Playa del Carmen. On the way back we had an Argentinian band playing right in the ferry! It was much fun!
We really loved Puerto Morelos town - it still has it's own character, and not overpopulated with tourists. Seems more like an old hippy town with yoga instructors walking around. There are a lot of nice not too expensive restaurants serving food all over the world, each place with its own charm. On the weekend they had a swimming competition at the malecon and then First Ceviche Festival. Kevin had a chance to participate in the stunt of the traveling Argentinian circus (mainly clowns) and be a target of the FritoNacho's throwing knives.
On the beach we spotted an old rusty handmade catamaran which served Cubans to cross the ocean. It's amazing they actually made it alive on this structure with the engine without even transmission....
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