Cancún is a young city, so young that very resident born before 1974 came besides! You have the balneal city here par excellence. On the economic plan, its 350.000 inhabitants depend almost exclusively on tourism and the related activities. It acts of city carefully planned, whose construction began only into 1969 pennies the directives from an government agency from the name from Fonatur (national acronym for Fonds of tourism), which remains the project superintendent about it even today, with a rather strict payment as for the assignment of the grounds.

There exists a rigid separation between the hotel zone, along the beaches, on a long and narrow isthmus in form from “7” with bridges at the two ends, and the city like such, located on what it is agreed to call the continent. The Kukulcán boulevard (badly conceived for the pedestrians) crosses all the hotel zone and leads to the downtown area; the service of bus is frequent and effective there (until in medium of evening, less frequent thereafter), and the taxis have accessible tariffs. The most important way of the downtown area is Avenida Tulum, bordered of restaurants, shops, supermarkets and banks.

Before 1969, there was only the village of fishermen of Puerto Juárez, in the northern suburbs of what is now Cancún. Today, in addition to one modern and prosperous city compared to the Mexican standards, one finds a long collar of hotels with multiple stars opposite pretty beaches of a whiteness étincelante to turquoise water. Several hotels are of a whimsical architecture, often in the shape of pyramid; the whole can seem to come very right from another planet! All is conceived for the comfort and the rest of the visitors, and the majority of them come there with a simple aim of prélasser under the tropical sun, or to take part in some sports activities, or to go to the discotheque the come night (with the proviso of not having the too fragile ears).

If you are in the search of entertaining activities will know that certain hotels propose evenings with music and meals typical, sometimes even of the spectacles of local folk ballet. Some nightclubs, either in the hotels, or in the downtown area, also present orchestras of salsa and other rates/rhythms tropical. The last week of May is held a jazz festival to with it.

On the spot, the tourist attractions as such are limited to the beaches, the sporting installations of the hotels and the shopping malls. However one can also make an excursion in the island of Cozumel for the diving, or visit the archeological sites of Chichén Itzá, in the west, or of Tulum and Cobá, in the south (this last is more interesting but further also).

The opinions are divided on Cancún. Some there see paradise terrestrial (the very great number of visitors and hotels indicates that they are not only), others, an artificial place and pain-killer. With you to decide. It should be noted that the price scale is higher in Cancún than elsewhere in Mexico. For a lunch of environment outside the hotel, think of Mercado 28 (“sea-CA-C bein-Ti-0-tcho decides”), a government contract located in a residential zone, close to the downtown area (all the taxi drivers know this place), which counts several restaurants with terrace proposing of the typical meals at very reasonable prices. Not to miss: preparations of seafood to the mode of Veracruz.