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- Mexico
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Cancun Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cancun, Mexico
Landing
This is a top pick! ... tourist aspect of Cancun. I feel like an outsider trying to be budget-conscious but everyone else here is trying to experience "Mexico" but in reality Cancun is just the "Gulf of Mexico" area of the World Showcase at the World Expo. It was hot and ...
Centro Cancun
This is a top pick! ... go into English whenever they saw someone that sticks out. So maybe I don't stick out, or maybe I completely forgot that downtown Cancun is less touristy than beach Cancun. Basically I just walked around for a while to find a place where I could make ...
The Sombrero Challenge of the Devil of the Death..
This is a top pick! ... Aires, Argentina Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Iguazu Falls, Argentina Salta, Argentina Macchu Pichu, Peru Mexico City, Mexico Guadalajara, Mexico Cancun, Mexico Havana, Cuba New York City, USA, Perth, Australia (note - this list will ...
Mexican fajitas and overeaters
This is a top pick! ... celebrate when we see you next week. By about 4pm we felt fried and frazzled and decided to take the 25km bus ride into Cancun town to try and find some proper internet access. Unfortunately we still didnt have skype but it allowed us to almost get ...
Cancun/Tulum
This is a top pick! ... cycle to a UNESCO park where Michael jumped into a lagoon. Cycled 30km that day, wrecked after it. Returned to Cancun the following afternoon and checked into the Weary Traveller Hostel. We decided to visit the Hotel area that evening and it ...
A night out Cuban style...
This is a top pick! Lets start off with an amusing moment recalled by Lady E at Fort Lauderdale airport when coming out of the human xray machine It was suggested I had something strapped to my knee, I remarked I had no choice it was so long.... childish, jest so very ...
The adventure really begins
This is a top pick! ... the U.S. and flew to Cancun via Atlanta and Indianapolis. As luck would have it, I sat next to Lily and Carolina from Merida, Mexico. They were visiting friends in the US and had each been exchange students several years ago in the US and Canada. They had ...
The end is nigh..splashing about and out in Cancun
This is a top pick! ... plane, I felt like a right plonker when it turned out to be something connected to the airconditioning unit. We landed back in Cancun which you probably have to say felt a bit like Thailand after returning from Burma, it is so rich and modern and heaving ...
Our 5th New Wonder of the World...SMASH!!!
This is a top pick! ... ) but hey it was a long day 13 hours infact) . We finally arrived at Chichen Itza, the most famous Mayan ruins in Mexico, at about 3:30pm which stunk a bit of poo considering we left at 7am. Chichen Itza is a huge site and much ...
Cancun - 5* Star!!!
This is a top pick! ... - the hostels of Cancun were charging atleast $27 to stay in scummy up-town. All travellers we have spoken to have hated Cancun - dirty, Americanised, 18-30 touristy. This is most definitely true if you are not stying in the hotel zone - but we are!!! ...
Entering a hot zone
This is a top pick! Ola to you all as we arrive in warmer climes once more!!! We landed in Cancun amist the Yank spring break and as much as we would have loved to frolick with 18yr olds in foam parties we decided to watch the budjet and move on to Tullum. Tullum is small ...
Tips? Dont you know were Northern mate?
This is a top pick! After a great nights sleep I woke up full of enthusiasm for a day by the pool, relaxing and soaking up some sun, its a strange feeling being this close to going home and one that is very difficult to describe, I suspect Rorie and Emer are the only people ...
aqui
This is a top pick! ... and colours of the trashy food on sale here.. I loaded up on junk food and set of on the $3.50 us bus into downtown cancun.. I checked into the weary traveler hostel for the one night.. I wanted to get down to Tulum the same day but the hostel I was ...
Vacation planning
This is a top pick! ... amp; Villas Avalon Baccara Cancun Casa Magna Cancun Resort All-Inclusive: Blue Bay Club Cancun Blue Bay Getaway & Spa Dreams Cancun Resort & Spa We also ...
Crazy Queues and a Wooden Horse
This is a top pick! ... Yum! The second day we decided to head to the beach, but to be honest we were disappointed. The beaches of Cancun whilst picturesque in colour were in reality not the best. The water was freezing for one thing, it was blowing a gale ...
Cancun
This is a top pick! ... the tequila and you know what? I claim the worm too! Oh yeah baby - we ARE going to Mexico! Hubby & I were going to be the last to arrive in Cancun, thanks to our Northwest Airlines reservation, which ...
Hola!
This is a top pick! ... to no Spanish and Rich knowing the very basics it was hard to understand let alone hear above the music! ¨No comprendo!¨ Dowtown Cancun is really pleasant, fairly touristy but has a really nice atmosphere and a nice amount of night life. The beaches ...
South of the border, down Mexico way
This is a top pick! ... leave the confines of my overly pleasant hotel room, I donned my good thongs, summoned all my strength, and unleashed myself on Cancun. Trouble did not take long to rear it's ugly head. Strolling towards the "party zone" I noticed a disconcerting amount ...
Moon Palace Tips
This is a top pick! ... had very good prices (most markets couldn't compete)." Stay at one - play in all of them "Yes unfortunately Sun, Beach and Cancun Palaces are closed until December 24, 2006 so obviously you won't be able to use their facilities. However, you have ...
Things are a little different than they ...
This is a top pick! ... seems to fall into place and you get where you want to, although not always the way you originally imagined. Backpacking in Mexico means revising the luxury standards again. After the luxury of Canada and the US, it´s now more like is there running ...
Cancun: the final chapter
This is a top pick! ... an I love you, how is that for soppy?) Point 5: stay another couple of days??? I am not thrilled. Never got grabbed by Cancun. Yes, I know it has white sandy beaches and turquoise water but still, ... . Hubby's argument is: if your cold is not finished, ...
The backpackers hostel
This is a top pick! ... get unbearable hot. Hubby wants to take a shower: no water! OK, let's go to the beach. It is ALL they say about Cancun. The sand is powder, white and cool, even in the burning hot sun. The colors are amazing. Pleasant afternoon but now my cold ...
Cancun: another day, another motel
This is a top pick! How are you today? What are you doing? We, we are going to move house again, the third time in Cancun. This is my poor mule in front of our new house. This is us, how we walk around. Another special thanks to SM for her nice backpack: he is called ...
Not A Must but a CANcun
This is a top pick! It was with sheer dread that we approached the tourist mecca of Cancun. High-rise hotels. Inflated dollar prices. Chainstore central. What redeeming features could it possibly have? The highest rated hostel in Mexico, apparently. That's where ...
Chichen Itza
This is a top pick! The morning starts well, we do not find the pick up place. AND it is before 7 in the morning. NOT my best time of the day. But, what is there to worry? It is 7 Mexican time. We are 3 minutes early and have to wait half an hour. A mini bus takes us to ...
Am I impressed yet?
This is a top pick! ... at night. Indeed full of shops, bars, resto's and terraces. BUT: also full of: garbage. Like in the other places in Mexico, people just toss things on the streets! I will have to find out, why. Is garbage not collected? Is it expensive to collect? ...
To Cancun
This is a top pick! ... morning! The drive is OK, apart from the same screaming Spanish movie on the video. And indeed, 5 hours later we are back in Mexico City. Taxi to airport. Check in. Hubby finds an airport lounge. How to get in and where to pay is NOT easy (nobody speaks ...
HRC and A/C!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... , busses. We can take a bus anywhere to the Hotel Zone for 25 Eurocent. The hotel zone and downtown are the 2 places to be in Cancun. 25 cents and 15 minutes later we are at the HRC!!! After a lovely meal, we go and look for internet: 600 percent ...
Diving in Cancun
This is a top pick! ... we have some time in the morning... . And, oh, yes, forgot to mention, hubby wants to stay another 4 nights in Cancun!!! Island hopping, rollerlbading, diving, pub crawling, ... . The hostel is cute. Full kitchen: coffee whenever we want, a fridge, ...