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The Riviera Maya is one of the touristiest areas of Mexico near Cancun. Mexican authorities decided in 1999 to give a boost to this area of ​​the Caribbean coast, and today are visited by millions of tourists every year. It extends for 120 km of coastline and 200 km in its entirety, and extends from the town of Puerto Morelos in the north to the town of Punta Allen in the south. The Riviera Maya belongs to the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.
This beautiful Caribbean area housed in the old one of the most enigmatic civilizations in history. So along the Riviera Maya monuments and buildings numeroros find a must to visit this ancient culture.
In the continental region the climate is semi-tropical, with an average temperature of 26 degrees Celsius and can reach 35 degrees Celsius in summer. The highest temperatures are recorded between May and August. The rainy season covers September and October.

Currency

The official currency is the peso. One U.S. dollar equals approximately 10 Mexican pesos, which varies according wings exchange market fluctuations.
Weather
The Riviera Maya is semi-tropical, with an average temperature of 28 degrees Celsius and can reach 35 degrees Celsius in summer. The highest temperatures are recorded between the months of May, June, July and August. The rainy season covers September and October.

Tours and vicinity

Puerto Morelos
Small town just 30 minutes from Cancun has the second largest reef in the world in their vicinity, offers wonderful beaches and nautical spectacle that has to be visited offers a wide variety of hotels, places to stay and local maritime travel . Awesome for snorkeling, diving and kayaking.

Playa del Carmen
It is the city with the largest population growth and cosmopolitan of the Riviera Maya, the city offers its visitors hotels in the Riviera Maya in various categories, silver, gift shops, paint shops, sculpture and contemporary art as well as national, will find silver shops, restaurants of national, international, from Asia to the Mediterranean, a lot of fun at the famous beach mommies instead of artists and celebrities. You will also find the best fun in the Caribbean in Pubs, Clubs and clubs along Fifth Avenue and pedestrian beautiful cobblestone street, renowned worldwide for being the most beautiful women and men in the world. It also has a small area called Playacar hotel, where they are more upscale hotels and all inclusive or all-commercial areas, residential areas, an aviary and a golf course, from the main dock move thousands of tourists want to travel to Mexico’s most famous island, Cozumel.

XCARET
Tourist park and eco-archaeological water where they learn about the flora and fauna of the state of Quintana Roo various water activities are the attraction of this charming park where you can perform activities like diving, snorkeling and swimming with dolphins. Located just 15 minutes from Playa del Carmen, Xcaret was opened in 1990 and today is one of the most visited of Mexico. Xcaret has beaches, bays, rivers, underground rivers, caves, aviary, coral reef aquarium, turtle, butterfly, apiary, and orchid greenhouse, the recreation of a Mayan village, Mexican cemetery and diverse local fauna such as jaguars, toucans, flamingos and macaws. In the cultural sphere, consists in a show where you stay the night admiring the ball game and Mexican culture. Just as traditional food and dances of all states of the Mexican republic.

Puerto Aventuras
Exclusive residential and hotel development with a high level of safety and marine environment calm and hospitable. The game comes with a beautiful Marina the best equipped in the state, also has beautiful beaches and low waves, a golf course with 9 holes. Within this development in Riviera Maya hotels with golf and tennis club, beach club, bilingual school, shopping, craft shops, restaurants, pubs and bars. Puerto Aventuras offers a number of activities both for those seeking rest and rejoice with nature as to those seeking to enter the world of water and Mother Nature to explore the resources offered this enchanting destination.

Akumal
It is a residential tourist destination known worldwide for environmentalists due to their Yalkú beautiful lagoon where snorkeling, and appreciate the most spectacular reefs close to the beach. In Akumal also found several cenotes for diving or swimming. In the town there is a small museum created by the CEA (Centro Ecologico Akumal). South to 4.6 km away is Aktun Chen, one of the world’s most beautiful cenotes in which there is a cave with three passages that offer stalactites and stalagmites with its beautiful natural water hole inside.

Xel-Ha
The second largest natural aquarium and beautiful the world is also an amusement park l promotes conservation of flora and fauna, is ideal snorkeling and scuba diving where you can watch and wonder at the majesty of marine life.

Tulum
One of the most beautiful archaeological sites in the world, only at the seashore, astounded by turquoise waters and a small beach where passengers take daily baths and sunbathing while enjoying its main pyramid. Tulum was a sacred city inhabited only by priests and priestesses.

Airport Information
Cancun airport is the second most important in Mexico and is the largest international passenger throughout Latin America. It has 3 terminals and hosts more than 11 million people a year. The airport is 50 km from Playa del Carmen. For more information.

Local Transportation
The Riviera Maya has several means of transportation from buses that run every corner of the Riviera Maya, to the taxi services located in the main attractions of the Riviera.