which is one of the cenotes you have to visit when you're boating on holbox island
in today's video i'm sharing with you my three day two nights on this island to give you some
inspo for planning your own trip as well as you know i love the helpful travel advice
and to help you understand some of the top things to do on this island
from flamingos to boating and kayaking too let's start with bioluminescence
i have this amazing time lapse going oh my goodness an amazing morning it started like this
yo
so if you're wondering why i'm going at such an odd hour at 4 00 am the thing to know about
bioluminescence is you want to go when it is darkest outside and so the time in which you go
is different all the time depending on what the moon is doing and it was going to be darkest at 4
00 am which is why we were suited up and ready to go at this time this was a two-hour tour and there
are different ways to see the bioluminescence which happens near punta coco you're going in a
lagoon it's only a 10 to 15 minute-ish drive from the main part of hobash island but some of the
tours going out allow you to kayak some of them you're just kind of standing on the side looking
but i wanted one where you would put on a wetsuit and go into the creepy black water and play with
the bioluminescence so that's what this tour was it was such an interesting experience obviously
impossible to capture on a gopro and there's different kinds of plankton but we were swimming
the green vegetarian plankton which by the way if you're new here welcome i'm christine
with where in the world of ciel and i make travel videos every week to help you get up
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bioluminescence it's a really cool experience it basically felt like the water was bedazzled and
you got to play with the plankton while you were in there i will say i was pretty misled by some
of the instagram photos that are out there about bioluminescence it didn't look like that but it
was still a really unique and cool experience and i would do it again i mean who doesn't want
to swim in a creepy black lagoon but my tour was two hours and if you want the exact tour operator
which i recommend he was very very knowledgeable there's a link in the description below as well as
other highly rated ones off of viator so you can choose what's right for you this is the party van
la fiesta let's not get ahead of ourselves let's talk about first when i arrived i got
into holbox island in the afternoon and if you need tips on how to make the journey from cancun
airport over to the island i have a full video in the description on that guess who made it
and another helpful tip to know is that if it's at all been raining on the island you should probably
take a taxi to avoid this i'll admit this is not my most favorite walk in the world but basically
i got in and i went and i checked into my hotel i would say for 150 a night i think i'm paying to
be on the beach which is a fair trade-off uh would i say it's worth it to be honest i thought it was
a fair price for what it was and it was fine if you want to see where i stayed at the whole boss
dream i have the full room tour review and tips on where to stay and where i'm planning to stay next
in the description below but after i checked in i went and walked around on the beach for a little
bit grabbed a bite to eat and then my friend evis who was coming from tulum who had lost
his cell phone who had ran out of cash somehow made it to the island and of course i was not
going to wait for him while he checked in and settled into his room so doing what i do best
i'm doing a 4.80 peso or jello's bike ride on the beach at sunset
if you're considering running a bike there's so many options and places to do it
all over holbox so there's no shortage of bikes this one i just did through my hotel
and i'm stopping at this amazing view if i could show
you some i definitely recommend riding a bike on holbox island and i have a couple tips for you
one is if you ride on the beach it's obviously extremely flat and it's also a wide beach so it's
fairly easy to navigate on a bike and ride the whole length of the beach and so i really enjoyed
that on this trip if it hadn't been torrential downpour with the entire town flooded out
riding a bike within holbox as a way of getting around if you don't do the golf carts or the
atvs is a really great way to get around but when it's flooded out it looks like this and so biking
on the beach only for me on this trip but after i went for this ride i met back up with ebis we
walked around on the beach for a little bit and we headed to a restaurant basically so i found this
spot when i was walking in and it looks like such a vibe so let's see if it is i'm excited
basico was basically it was fine but if you're having some fun with me in this video share that
like button and consider subscribing and tell me in the comments if you're headed to hobash
i would love to know i had to get to bed early because this is what was happening at 4 a.m which
you already know about and afterwards when i got back at 6am i went to sleep right no of course
not i went and i enjoyed the sunrise oh sunrise on this island is amazing so beautiful today
that's amazing
and then it was time for the next adventure it's so beautiful just walking on the beach
in the morning especially when it's empty and we took some awesome photos
it was super fun and now i'm headed to go find some coffee i ended up going
to a breakfast spot to grab some coffee at pinot pole which is right on the main road
one thing to note about traveling here is that everything takes forever i mean it's an island
you know what i mean life but we gotta be somewhere that i'm really excited about
we are about to get on a three island boat tour this morning
super excited just us on the boat and there's gonna be adventure
there's gonna be a lot of water and there's gonna be a lot of sun and there's also gonna be one
met up with our guys we got chris in the house we got evis in the house
as requested i've got a cooler in the house
we on stop number one chris it's bird island yeah island bird island
so what exactly is this boat tour and how do you make it yours you know me i love to
do research and find the best reviewed and rated tour operators out there and
so i went with vip whole posh experience and what i was on was a private boat which is 185
took you around to three different islands over the course of the afternoon and it was vip in the
sense that when i requested things like please have a cooler for my wine they were happy to
do that so we had three stops on this island and this one that we're going to right now is yalahau
which is the cenote that used to provide the fresh water for the entire island of
hobash
oh
and every single one of these little spots you stop at they have these
little towers that you walk up so pretty you always have to go to the top and look
so awesome being on the boat today i'm super tired so i took a really
awesome night and now i'm ready to rock and roll from north korea
we are cruising around looking for adventure and you know what if you shop a drink yeah we
are looking for a drink but there's really cute like shops and markets all over the place i wonder
let's go
what are you doing right now uh i'm getting on the kayak
on the side right now yeah she's going right now did you have that plan i do now
chris you have cash on you though right because they only take cash
so mahi is a place you gotta check out especially if you want weekend
vibes because apparently it's one of the only places that stays open
late on the weekends we talk from three to four a.m but tonight
i also know it's a good meal when i've started eating it and i
have more or less destroyed it before taking photos and videos for you
i'm sure it's 10 p.m now and waking up super early to go kayaking tomorrow so it's time to play
you know it's going to be a good morning when it starts like that
6 a.m let's get the sunrise i spent the morning capturing the sunrise it's so beautiful to just
walk on the beach especially when it's really quiet i've done it both mornings that i've
been here here's a pro tip if you want any kind of coffee there are no places that open fire to 8 a.m
still haven't had a coffee yet but it's time for the next adventure
kayaking
but yeah we try to to find them i'm actually really excited because willie just offered to
ride in the kayak with me and i was like oh never had that option before
and all the kayaking i've done in my life take a break from family
and we have seen so many baby animals all the baby puffer fish and the baby stingrays we saw so many
i was really hoping to see flamingos and there's some
oh that was so fun that's amazing we saw so much wildlife now is the awkward part where
you got to get out of the kayak there's like no graceful way to do this ready to watch me
don't let the kayak go away
sometimes but i have short arms
having short arms means that the kayak is just hitting the ground a lot
here's my ride
see he's the man you gotta find right here
to be totally honest i'm surprised a place like this is
full wash in terms of like inside they have a cool outdoor in the back area but like air
conditions and super water but they have coffee they've got an americano going on and avocado
i'm all packed up and take a look at this we got a nice little ocean view and we are saying goodbye
child a whole bunch i'm never leaving i'm cancelling my flight i love this
place we're leaving right now like literally right now he needs to get up
oh gosh such an amazing island if you had some fun in this video cheers that
like button if you haven't already make sure you check out this guy's channel
info in the description below and i'll see you in the next adventure ciao
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