it's actually the second time i have been to Mexico Steff - last time was part of a big latin america trip and i was in Mexico for a couple of months (mas o menos
) spending a week in Mexico City, a week in Oaxaca a couple on the pacific coast, a couple on the Caribbean and some time in the rain forest area central/south (palenque) - an amazing country, hopefully will be able to go back and see a lot more of it. Playa del Carmen isn't what you'd call your typical Mexican town - very touristic, panders to the americans a lot and relatively expensive, but still fairly small and you can avoid the 'worst' of it - my mate is fluent in Spanish so that helped us with not sticking out as your typical gringos :lol: