Half a year on the road, I felt super tired travelling. I just wanted to stay at a place, relax, enjoy the sea and the sun and get brown before catching my flight back to Europe. First stop in Mexico: Bacalar. Its a little town by a lagoon with the most bluest water I´ve ever seen. Extremely beautiful and this immense beauty helped to kinda relax a bit and slow down my travel urge. I was lucky to meet amazing people there with whom I went on a boat trip around the lake. Definitely one of the my highlights on this trip!

Since it was quite expensive there I went to the next spot up the coast of the Yucatan half island. Tulum is similar to San Marcos, a place for alternative people but has a local vibe too. You have this one big road with all the shops, bars and restaurants and thats what everyone is basically interested in. Super touristic. With a bike you can have a 20 minutes ride to the beach where you can see other Mayan ruins and loads of seaweed. You know how shocked I was? I left Guatemala to have a nice, cheaper option to chill by a Caribbean beach and found a coast line full of fuckin sea weed.

At that point I was like´yap this whole plan for your last month of travel was one big fail`. Desperately I was looking for a volunteer job at one of the thousands hostels in Tulum but couldn’t find one (lucky me in a later perspective). So yeah, there I was no clue where to go and what to do. Its really easy to go around in Mexico with those Collectivo buses so I just took one to the next famous beach town Playa del Carmen.

Everyone talked bad about this place but as soon as I stepped out of the bus and walked towards my hostel I kinda started to fall in love with this super modern, touristic and expensive piece of Mexican land. The hostel I choose to stay in over the weekend was the hostel I got my volunteer job. Its called ´Hostels on the Road` and its owner is an amazing man who not only helped me out by giving me a job but answered some questions I carried in my soul for a long time. He was a medium too, like Luis (who I met at the beginning of my journey) and made the end of my trip a perfect experience. Finally I got the opportunity to get in a routine and do nothing but relax and enjoy the last weeks of Mexico.

Daily Life in Playa del Carmen

How my routine looked like: Wake up, go to a yoga class, have breakfast, enjoy the sun at the beach (and forget about the smelly sea weed) and than go to work in the afternoon. I met wonderful souls there. My volunteer team was fun and the guests as well. With David my funny mate from Australia, who loved us as much as we loved him and stayed over a week at our hostel, I went to a festival called `Art with Me´ in Tulum (highly recommended). Jees, it was WICKED!

Not only experienced we all kinds of art and enjoyed the day at the beach but also went to the concert of my favourite artist. The whole day was really beautiful but if I´d have to name the highlight I´d say as awesome as the concert was so was the beach party before that, where you just felt so connected with everyone. All people there were in a pure love vibration, we danced in one big circle, cheered for the same thing. Hard to describe in words.

Sister Reunion in Isla Mujeres

Anyways, the weeks in Playa del Carmen went in a flash and soon I saw myself saying goodbye to my friends cause I had one last stop before my flight… My sister Bini had her flight from Cancun too, exactly one day after mine (coincidence? Lol, hell no, universe is genius). I met her at the beginning of my trip in Pacha Mama and I was blessed enough to meet her again in the very end. We spent three magical, healing and reflecting days on Isla de Mujeres. With her I see the magic in life with every step I take, in every corner I look. I had forgotten how beautiful it is to be around her and why I called her `soul sister´ at the first place.

But as soon as I saw her again, it all came back. Moreover, I realised so much more, for example why I didn’t find a healing opportunity at lake Atitlán. Universe brought us two together and you guys, when we are together there is so much clarity and healing happening – wow! I reflected a lot of my journey, recharged my energy for all the difficulties I was going to face flying back to Europe and was three days just full of gratitude. 

Gratitude is actually the state in which I wanna end my Central America story telling. All the experiences I was allowed to make add up to sheer gratitude inside of me. My heart is wide open, my mind calm. Even so I had a long outer journey, I must say that it is the inner journey of mine which makes it to an unforgettable part of my life. 

A Moment of Gratitude

Thank you Ross, you made my first two weeks in Costa Rica truly magical. Thank you Luis, you changed my name and my life. I´ll never forget you and your love. Thank you Kim, you mean the world to me. I admire you like no one else. I love you. Thank you Bini, you show me the magic, wherever we go. I truly love you. Thank you Omie, your advice and understanding of my cancer energy helps me loads. Thank you Julien, I never loved a person more than I love you. You were a fantastic friend and teacher for me. I love you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you Sat Tapa, you helped me heal and grow. Thank you Francis, I never thought I would fall in love with a London man in the deepest jungle of Nicaragua. Travelling with you was a blessing. Thank you Pablo, working for you was a gift of heaven. Thanks for responding to all my answers I had inside of me for a while. Thank YOU ALL, thanks for being a part of my journey.