San Blas
San Blas was a fun stop where we experienced the "real Mexico" with central plaza and mercado. We shopped for fresh produce, people watched at the plaza and ate at local restaurants.
Our taxi ride in from the beach was hilarious! Nancy "hitchhiked" a ride with the first car that passed by on the bumpy dirt road leading to San Blas...it was a beat-up Toyota Tercel driven by a "salty old gringo" who had relocated from the states in the "70's"..he talked just like the character "Cheech" of Cheech & Chong ...I think he was crazy!, but all six of us piled into this little car for a 50 pesos ride to San Blas. I wish I had a picture of us all crammed into this car...don't tell my kids how dangerous this was...as he tried to pass a big dump truck !!!...
We enjoyed the anchorage at Matanchen, but as warned in the guide book, the "no see-ums, the tiny biting bugs called locally, jejenes, were awful! We were cautious to douse ourselves with DEET everyday and we purposefully anchored 1/2 mile off the beach to escape these buggers...but they still found me! My legs and arms were covered in bites and I looked like I had the measles! It took a week for the "itch" to go away!
Jejene bites on my leg
Jungle tree roots
Signs for the palapa restaurants
The indoor plaza at the Le Petite Hotel
Nancy & Rob (Shindig) and Brian & Elizabeth (Autumn Wind)
Statuary in the La Petite Hotel
Banana bread bakery... a specialty!
Old ox cart
Community church
The Tobara Jungle tour...
Tourists for a day!
Reminded me of the "Pirates of the Caribbean"...
Old daddy crocodile
Movie set on the jungle tour
John, Brian & Elizabeth, Nancy & Rob
OMG...did you see that one??!!
Swimming at Tobara Springs
The jungle tour was very interesting and our guide slows to show us many species of birds, fish and crocodiles! It was so exciting to see these big lizards in the wild.
We end the jungle tour at the Tobara fresh water spring swimming hole. There is a small restaurant serving the tour guests. We enjoy the peaceful setting and "cervezas frios"(cold beer).
Our last evening in Matachen, San Blas is spent playing dominos at the palapa restaurant on the beach near our anchorage, sharing more cervezas and good chat! ...and mucho jejenes!!! AAhh!!
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