Cancun, Cozumel & the Yucatan - Cancun & Around (PDF Chapter)
This is the Cancún & Around chapter from Lonely Planet’s Cancun, Cozumel & the Yu-catan guidebook.
When most people think of Cancún, a wild party town comes to mind. But you can also soak up indigenous culture in between fiestas, dine on Yucatecan comfort food and Michellin-starred haute cuisine, and escape to diving, snorkeling and myriad water activities.
- wander around world-class Museo Maya de Cancún, home to one of the Yucatán’s most im-portant collections of Maya artifacts
- maps
- snorkel in the shallow waters of the Museo Subacuático de Arte, a unique underwater mu-seum with hundreds of submerged life-sized sculptures
- transport
- chill on the soft sands of a white-sand beach flanked by the Caribbean Sea and a calm la-goon on Isla Blanca
- restaurants & accommodation
Coverage includes: Sights, Beaches, Activities, Tours, Sleeping, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Around Cancún, Isla Contoy, Isla Holbox.
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