Puerto Allen, or the Edge of Mexico

After saying "Adios" to Valladolid (such a nice town! You should definitely visit it!), wee headed down the road to find Punta Allen. We got turned around at Coba (Maya ruin site), but not for long, and found our way to the road that takes you down a long long long peninsula to PUnta Allen. Just out side Tulum, at first the road is paved with many little boutique resorts. And I mean many. Like, as in, back to back. Honestly, I don't know how they all make money...probably by charging exorbitant price. After that small stretch of road there was approx. 50 miles or road that looked like this

Which lead to the small village of Punta Allen. We were going to rent a room at this one place I found on the internet, but it wasn't quite to our liking, so we looked around and found this place, Costa Del Sol, which was right on the beach and cheap! Only $50.00/night

Here are some pics of our casita etc

Punta Allen is a tiny little village where there is only power 6 hours a day,There is no cell serice there. There is an internet cafe that is open about 2 hours a day, but no wi-fi. It was a good place to unwind and disconnect. However, after about 2 days of beach, sleeping, cold showers and eating, we were ready to go. Plus, note to english-only speakers: very very little english is spoken in villages like this, or even in larger places like Valladolid in the interior, so it is helpful to learn a few words of Spanish to help you get by and bring your translation book. I will leave you with a few pics of PUnta Allen