Rompin Around: Sunhats at Secrets: Excursion Adventure

After several days at the resort, we knew we wanted to experience at least one excursion. Mr. Ball Cap is really into history so we looked into traveling to Tulum, Mecixo to experience some of the Mayan ruins. The only downside to this was that it was almost two hours away from our resort. We were hoping to find something a little closer to avoid spending so much time traveling.

While on a visit to a sister resort of Silversands, Maroma, one of the staff members spoke highly of Xplor, an adventure park in Riviera Maya. The park was only 45 minutes from our resort and offered some fun and unique experiences. Count us in!

At Xplor, you can fly over treetops on 14 zip lines, drive amphibious vehicles on trails through the jungle as well as inside caves, swim in an underground river surrounded by stalactites and stalagmites, and take an underground raft ride using hand paddles.

We wore our swim suits all day and brought along water socks for our feet. The park requires you to wear helmets for safety. Each helmet has a unique number, and at the end of the day, the park can pull up pictures taken of you during your visit based upon your helmet number.* This was great as there was no way to safely take a camera with you.

We decided to hit up the zip lines first while the day was still early and the weather wasn't quite as hot. There was quite a bit of climbing so we got our work out in for the day! I was pretty disappointed that the park cameras didn't capture very good pictures of us during this time, but we had a blast.

One of two water landings and the source of a major wedgie!

Mr. BC was perfectly positioned.

I think I landed backwards almost every time!

After huffing and puffing up several towers, we were rewarded with a water slide ride down to the next station.

After zip lining, we took a break at a drink station and made our way to a lunch buffet included in our package. We then tried out the amphibious vehicles to give our meal time to digest.

We saw lots of lizards on the side of the road during our drive and Mr. Ball Cap kept yelling at me every time I leaned out to grab one. I can't help myself when it comes to animals! We were impressed as the drive last for well over 20 minutes.

Next up was our favorite of the day - the underground cave swim. The water was so refreshing and you could take your time floating through the course. We did this twice since we enjoyed it so much! We even started posing for the cameras after a while just to keep things interesting.

Just keep swimming.

Muscle man

Don't even ask.

Playing dead

Stealing a kiss

We did the paddle boats as well but enjoyed it the least. We may not have been the best at paddling as a team and it wasn't long before the course backed up in a traffic jam. Paddling proved challenging for quite a few people and folks up ahead kept getting their rafts stuck.