The Friday after US Thanksgiving we set off for Isla Holbox. It was our first visit there. The island is probably best know for the annual whale shark migration season, and snorkeling with them is a very popular activity.
Alas, it was not whale shark season when we there.
It was about a 4 hour drive from Merida to Chiquila, where you catch the ferry or private boat to the island. That is if you take the toll road most of the way, which was our route. We arrived too late for the 2:00 pm ferry, so after parking the cars in one of several parking establishments in Chiquila (5 Hermanos, 50 pesos a day), we took a private boat over. It cost 500 pesos, the ferry would have been 400 for the four of us.
Jeff and Julie, our traveling companions, had been there last year, so they knew the ropes. From the dock on Holbox we took a cab to our hotel, Posada Mawimbi. It was no ordinary cab for this island of sand roads:
We spent four nights there and had a wonderful time. There is a town square, some restaurants, lots of birds, not a lot of night life, but we are not really night life kind of people. The restaurant and bar at the hotel were wonderful, with attentive staff and good food and drinks. A breakfast of a fruit bowl and toast is included in the room charge.
Lobster pizza is a specialty, and we shared one at a restaurant on the square with a sign that said they had created it in 1982. We ate at a couple of restaurants in the town (the hotel is right on the edge of the central part of the town), and had a great meal there. One highlight of the trip, beside enjoying the beach and sun, was Kathy’s birthday dinner on the beach, about 20 feet from the water.
On to photos. We are returning in mid-March to meet a cyber friend from Norway and his wife. Our friends who took us there called it forced relaxation. It certainly was relaxing.
Hotel beach
Sunset
Birthday with multiple name spellings
Horseshoe crab colletion