I finally found the water I was so much longing for not in the form of the desired waves, but in an underground cenote.
these cenotes vary in size and depth, and it is said that they undermine the whole of the yucatan peninsula.
if you are daring enough you can go snorkling in there or swimming. have a look at the ropes beside me, they serve to guid you back to the surface and exit again.

of course, if you want to have an adventure, dangerous animals may not miss. we encountered this little tarantula accidentally by strolling through the jungle near the ruins of coba.
tarantulas can be lethal, however most of them are only lethal for people who get a heart attack when they see the eepy-creepy spiders slowly moving across their path and fixing them with their black myriad of needle eyes...
this is basically what happened to Irmi - she jumped around so much that I thought she had already been bitten... :-) funny for me, but not for her - she is arachnophob now (spider-hating, that is).
oh, and just imagine driving through tropical jungle, on a highway with only jungle and more jungle next to you, and you have a puncture. and while you fix your car, you just HAVE TO stand there with all those tarantulas creeping around... bbrrrrrrrrrrr again...

in the next picture I guess I was just hoping that there were no spiders among the lianas. and, yes, that IS sweat on my t-shirt.

all in all, the ruins of coba, situated right in the middle of the jungle, are not as crowded as the big ones at chichen itza. so if you want to have the original jungle feeling, you'd rather go there.

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