Your Inside Guide to: Cancun
Seaside City with Fashionable Resorts & Spas
Mexico's most visited tourist destination, Cancun delights the senses, day and night. This seaside city is famous for its fashionable resorts and spas, top-notch dining and nightlife, upscale shopping malls, and endless array of water sports. Outside the city limits, visitors can tour the Mayan Riviera and stop at the ancient ports-turned-playgrounds of Playa del Carmen, Xcaret and Xel-Ha. Not far is Tulum, the only walled Mayan city, and laid-back Isla Mujeres and Cozumel, famous for snorkeling and diving.Poised on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Cancun boasts sunny, subtropical weather and the unrivaled waters and white sands of the Caribbean. The calm, crystalline seas are ideal for snorkeling, diving, kayaking and sailing. For bigger thrills, board a wave runner or banana boat or try your hand at parasailing or parachuting. Sport fishing is superb here, where anglers can reel in game fish year-round.
Back on land, there's plenty of action as well. Explore ancient ruins or nature reserves, take off on a motorcycle, discover underground caves, or rappel through the treetops. For more tame amusement, enjoy some R&R at a spa, browse through a chic mall or colorful marketplace, and sample some of Cancun's 500-plus restaurants. When night falls, the fun really gets started. There are high-energy nightclubs and bars galore plus live music venues offering everything from rock to jazz.
Cancun seems to do it all—and beautifully.
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