Bacalar is the 3rd city we visit in Mexico. I wasn't quite sure what to expect as I came here solely off the recommendation of a friend. As we pulled up in the bus from Merida I was at lost for words. In the distance I could see a body of water glimmering with blues, teal, aqua and turquoise. The water looked like it had been Photoshopped, suddenly I was very hot and dying to get into the water. I woke Mika up as we were only getting a "courtesy stop" aka the bus was pulling off the road for us to hop out and then continuing on its way.
La Laguna de los Siete Colores (The Lagoon of Seven Colors) is a beautifully undeveloped area. There seems to be only a couple hotels and everything else is a "Hotelito" a privately owned home that rents rooms individually or as a whole. (There is a HUGE beautiful hotel on the south end of the lagoon that is completely abandoned because the former owner is an incarcerated narcotrafficker) The lagoon gets its name from the 7 distinct colors it has. There are also 7 cenotes that feed into the lagoon.(Which is why the water is not stagnant.)
We took a boat trip out on the lagoon today and got to about half of it, along with throw on some life jackets and let the flow of the water take us. Mika loves it here. Her exact words are "Lagoon? Hammock? Yes please!!"
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