There's a small island at the northern tip of the Yucatan peninsula and it's called Holbox. It's rather off the beaten track, i.e. less touristy and you get there by a one-hour ride on a kind of waterbus from the mainland. It makes most sense to leave the bike on a guarded parking lot on the mainland - and this is what I did.Holbox is very tranquil and a little hippie-like, it has only sand streets, loads of cockroaches and supposedly mosquitoes (the latter at least in summer) and the main means of transport are golf carts. I've only seen two real cars, one of which was the police. I decided to make up a little with my deficit in body exercise and walked along the loooong deserted beaches. There are some quite beautiful places - although it is a rather cool and windy place - don't know if this is normal or I just caught a "cold" day.

The main beach is huge, windy and full of purposlessly cruising golf carts and a few speeding motorcycles. So it's nothing you'd like when you are looking for a calm place - but it seems to be a preferred place for kite surfers. There's also a few ruins of not-so-old looking hotels, that had been built directly on the beach and apparently recently destroyed by Wilma or a similar storm.

Apart from that there's a kind of central plaza with a few restaurants - and this is basically all the features of this tiny place. So I left the island after two nights, caught the ferry and headed for the next and last island on my list - the "Isla Mujeres" ("women island") close to Cancun.

This is another small place which is - due to its vicinity to Cancun - completly built upon. There is not a single space without hotels, bars or private villas. Nevertheless it's not too expensive and still a nice place to stay. But also here - after 2 nights - I had enough and left for Cancun, where I had to prepare for the return trip.

The customs formalities were rather hassle-free and easy-going and took me about half a day - and gone was the bike. So there was little more than one day left to get some more sun, beach and sea and to pack my bags. Tomorrow I'll take the plane and Saturday morning I'll touch down in Frankfurt/Main. That's the unspectacular end of a great adventure.