The boho town’s star appeal changes with its traveller tides – the fashion crowd, foodies, yogis – but its slow-moving beauty always remains a little stellar. From the beach (‘a great beach by any standard. The sea is a turquoise rough and tumble, the sand thick as mashed potato’) to cenotes (‘astonishing, like being in the belly of some giant alien’), hammock-strung hotels to ‘these gorgeous hippies, endlessly stretching or beading or doing some hardcore capoeira or opening a juice shop’.
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