Huatulco mountain bike excursion??

[tskaar]

Greetings fellow cruisers,

 

Have any of you taken the mountain bike excursion through Princess in Huatulco, Mexico?

 

I'm considering this tour and would love some feedback.

 

Thanks so much,

Tracey

[hdawson]

No mountains near Progreso. In fact the state of Yucatan is pretty much a mountain free zone.

[heartnurse]

My husband I took a similar tour (same place) with CCL about 5 years ago. It was a very small group, just us and a single woman with 2 pre-teens. It started with a van ride out to an old church, where we met up with 2 locals with an old rusty pickup full of cheap, old rusty heavy mountain bikes. It toook me 3 times to find a decent size that actually had inflated tires. We commenced an interesting ride through rural Mexico on dirt roads through several villages. It was like a movie--there were children and chickens scooting across the yards and dogs sleeping in the middle of the road. We just followed our guide, who was from Cancun and was a travel & tourism student. He would stop here and there to point out local interests. The strangest thing was that the kid had a machete strapped to his leg. At one point we all got off the bikes and followed him into a brushy area. He pulls his machete out and the first thing I thought was "we're dead!" Turns out he was showing us the yucca plants, a very important crop to the area. Whew. Truth be told if we were in trouble, we had no cell service and no idea where we were! I also found it irritating that the entire time we were biking, the 2 guys in the pickup were driving right behind us, too close for my comfort. (They drove around the sleeping dogs!) We passed by a ceynote and ended up at an old estate, where we could explore on our own and use the pool. After that, we took a van back to the market. On the way, we stopped at what seemed to be a local's house. The driver ran in and came out with a bag of corn tortillas to try. The trip surely gave us something to write home about and laugh about later, but I wouldn't do it again.