Cancun: sun and sea, warm sand, bronzed bodies. Caribbean Earth sensual and compelling, with great walls of coral and lush tropical forest remnants. An amazing place, with clear waters that lay bare the deep sea and Mayan stone cities that reveal the secrets of history.
A generous landscape that complements an impressive tourist infrastructure, equipped with everything needed to entice travelers. Here, fun is like the waves, never ending, is repeated day and night, sometimes rises and becomes uncontrollable and impetuous as the tide, others it is serene, calm, joy a protracted, as the caresses of the waters the warm sand.
The tourist paradise of Cancun is the fruit of a Mexican government’s plan to build a grand resort in a remote area which provided the right conditions. The place was found and it was a thin strip of sand in the form of seven, located at one end of the Yucatan Peninsula in the young state of Quintana Roo.
The choice could not be better: a mild climate with an average temperature of 28 ° C, the imposing presence of the Caribbean sea witch and her closeness to monumental Mayan cities were sufficient to ensure the Cancun project success. A dream started to become reality in the Mexican coasts.
The plan began to be implemented during the government of President Luis Echeverría (1970-1976), then it was a small village inhabited by fewer than 100 people, would become just-in-in the tourist world’s largest, with flow over some million visitors per year.
Cancun is now synonymous with the sea. Bodies burnish the sun, bikinis and thongs, frozen drinks in the sand warm days swimming alongside dolphins, hiking into the depths of the Caribbean, the challenges to the waves on surfboards, in partnerships with the wind to move forward in the most adrenaline windsurfing and jet in the sky.
Beaches and more beaches. Some water, as Linda, Langosta and turtles, which are protected by the bay of Isla Mujeres, others have strong currents and impulsive, like whales, Dolphins and San Miguelito, all watching the Caribbean, all beautiful, all inviting us to rest in fine sand or refresh in its pristine waters.
The scenario changed in the fun night. No longer is the immensity of the sea, the sand nor comforting. In the darkness, the flicker of neon lights to guide passengers to the bars and clubs of cosmopolitan or local environment, with speakers that burst with the sounds of a ranch song or seem to dance with the catchy melodies of Caribbean music.
The adventure does not end with the enjoyment of the sea and toast night, Cancun is also history and wild nature, especially in the so-called Riviera Maya, a coastline of 100 miles long that extends to the border with Belize, offering an interesting variety archaeological itineraries and ecotourism.
Traces of the past in Coba, a mayan city in the middle of several lakes which was the starting point of the sacbeob (way) longer route by the Maya and Tulum, a city close to the top of a cliff and protected by large walls, are clear evidence of the greatness of the pre-Hispanic civilizations.
Corners filled of nature like the Biosphere Reserve Sian Ka’an, which is revealed as a “gift from heaven” because of its geography and its generous variety of flora and fauna; like Xel-Ha and Xcaret, primarily enchanted mayan beaches now a national park and tourist park, respectively.
And the snake in the Riviera Maya coast, there are finest resorts in Playa del Carmen, one of the most sophisticated corners and in Cozumel, the largest inhabited island in Mexico, where the waters are most clearly in the world, why laying regularly practiced diving and snorkeling.
Returning to Cancun city with its restless great Zona Hotelera, private beaches, its huge shopping malls and Kukulcan Boulevard that links the resort with the quiet streets of the town of Cancun, more discreet and less expensive accommodations.
Cancun gives no respite to the fun. Its hotels and restaurants designed for demanding world travelers walkers, its magnificent Mayan complex, the redoubts of ecological and … beaches, many beaches. Here there is only time to enjoy what nature and man, each in turn, have created.