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How to Spend 4 Days in Cancun

We’ve started our Mexico tour in Cancun, followed by Mexico City, Los Cabos and we’re finishing in Palm Springs California, to fly home from Los Angeles.

As I’m currently hosting 15 people, I don’t have time to write up exactly how to spend the four days just yet, but I will put some of my favorite photos in for now, and come back to this with a handy itinerary post. So if Cancun is on your radar, bookmark this post and stay tuned!

Where to stay in Cancun

The Hotel Zone, or Kukulkan Boulevard, is about 26km of beachfront hotels, resorts, golf courses – and sometimes all in one location.

Most are all-inclusive with several restaurants on site, making it easy for groups of friends and families to vacation together with no bill-splitting at the end of the night.

We stayed at Oleo Cancun Playa. It’s one of the smaller resorts with a beach front pool and just three restaurants. There is also a cafe where you can get cappucino’s etc and food, all included.

The beds are super comfortable, and it’s located across the road from a fabulous restaurant, Navios, with tables on the jetty for epic sunsets.

But there are many many places to stay along here, so check out the Hotel Zone on Booking.com and have a look at prices and reviews.

Navios.

Day 2 : Chichen Itzá and swimming in a Cenote

This is a UNESCO site and the most important on the Yucutan Peninsula. It is visited by over 2.6 million people each year.

It takes about 2.5 hours to drive here, and the first thing you’ll note are the 1700+ vendors selling their wares in and around the site. There is a wooden whistle-type thing that sounds like the scream of a jaguar, and another one that is the Aztec death cry. Vendors blow these all the time!

Megan at Chichen Itzá
The pyramid of Chichen Itzá is sitiated for the spring and autumn solstice. It was built by the Mayans and is one of the most important locations in the Yucutan Peninsula.
Our group on tour! This main pyramid was built in the 12thC and is the third structure over two smaller ones underneath. A cenote (sink hole) is under it and was discovered filled with gold, jade ceramics.
Chichen Itza is located on a 10sqkm site and was where 35,000 people lived. There is a huge ball court here and several other sites like a temple.

Visit Cenote Selva Maya

About ten-minutes drive from Chichen Itza, on the highway towards Vallodolid, is this massive cenote, or sinkhole.

They were sacred sites to the Mayan people, some used for ceremonial purposes and as water wells. Today Cenote Sela Maya is probably the most popular, and most crowded. But there are changing rooms for getting your swimsuit on, then walk down the steep steps and jump into the water.

There is also a buffet restaurant and a couple of small shops. You can taste tequila here too!

Admission is MXN150 (about US$7.50)

Day 3 : Xel Ha Water Park

This is a natural waterpark from an inlet off the ocean. It sprawls over 200 acres and your all-inclusive pass gets you use of the floatation chairs, snorkel mask and flippers, zip line rides, and lots of restaurants. Drinks are also included, soft drinks, beer and even tequila shots!

I’m in my floating chair dawdling through the mangroves and out into the big wide water park.

Until the wind got up and the tide was working against me, so I was assisted in to the next stairs by a life guard!!

Day 4 : Shop at La Isla

Maria the iguana
This is Maria the iguana. She lives along the waterway here at La Isla shopping centre and doesn’t mind the odd lettuce leaf from surrounding restaurants!

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