Cozumel

In Cozumel, Jake and I took a ferry over to Playa del Carmen to take a tour of Coba. Coba is not as excavated as the other ruins and still has many large structures covered from the jungle. We had toured Chichen Itza and Tulum when we spent time in Cancun so we were looking forward to these Mayan ruins. Especially because they still allow you to climb to the top of main temple. We had a really interesting experience while we were on the bus traveling to Coba, our tour guide asked if anyone had heard of Zarahemla. Jake and I both shook our heads not thinking anything of it. Well as we were walking in the ruins, the guide came up to us and started speaking Spanish to Jake. He said that he was going to walk with his Mormon friends. After talking with him, we found out that he knew Helaman (Helaman is a LDS tour guide that took us to Chichen Itza and Tulum)and that Helaman had explained how The Book of Mormon could be related to the Mayan ruins. So from then on the tour guide would mention some of the things Helaman had told him through the tour. The amazing part of this story is that while we were at some ruins we turned around and there was Helaman. I mean really want are the odds. After we climbed the temple, Helaman was at the bottom and we were able to talk with him. This was probably by far my favorite shore excursion we did because of this experience.