where is cozumel
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Where is Cozumel?
Just in front of Playa del Carmen, this Mexican island measures only 30 miles long and 10 miles wide. It would provide plenty of time, to relax on its famous beaches, swim and snorkel in its crystal-clear waters. Enjoy fresh seafood in the seaside village of San Miguel, and explore this amazing Caribbean Island.
EXPLORING SAN MIGUEL
San Miguel, the island’s largest town, is home to most of the island’s 80,000 residents. It has an international airport and docks for cruise ships (you can count as many as five ships at dock each day). You can find also ferries that travel between Cozumel and Playa del Carmen on the Yucatan coast in 35 minutes.
Its lively waterfront buzzes with cruise passengers, day-trippers from the mainland, and vacationers staying in hotels and resorts that spread north and south of San Miguel on the island’s west side.
In Sidewalk bars and restaurants, high-end shops, souvenir stalls, and other businesses line the waterfront, main plaza and pedestrian side streets. Just a few blocks inland is the sprawling residential area—with colorful one- and two-story homes and spreading bougainvillea.
These neighborhoods are alive with motorcycles carrying as many as two adults and two children, kites often dancing in the skies, and the constant chorus of barking dogs.
Sundays, when no cruise ships come to port, locals head to the beaches during the day and gather on the main plaza at night for stage performances of dance and theater.
Tables set up by various fundraising groups sell pizza, pasta and desserts to families pushing strollers, people walking dogs, children roller skating, and teenagers hunched over cell phones.
where is cozumel
SNORKELING, SCUBA DIVING AND SWIMMING
Companies catering to scuba divers of every level offer trips to more than 25 dive sites around the island. For snorkelers, sunbathers, and swimmers, there are lots of options on the island’s west side.
Waterfront resorts offer day passes to beach clubs like Playa Mia, which has a swimming pool, waterslides, a water park for the kiddos, ocean kayaks, paddleboats, Hobie Cat sailboats, beach volleyball, and more.
For less fancy (and cheaper) digs, SkyReef is an open-air bar and grill that offers free use of beach chairs, plus rental snorkel gear, tequila tastings, and massage. Because there are reefs close to shore, often you only need to jump into the water and start looking around.
Accessible only by tour boat are El Cielo, with its resident starfish, and Palancar, considered among the best snorkeling spots.
In contrast to the developed west side of Cozumel, the untamed “other side” offers miles and miles of pristine coastline. It ranges from white-powder beaches to rocky shoreline, easily accessed via a two-lane paved road that hugs the east coast.
Although the surf is rough and swimming is limited, local families descend on Sundays with their own food and umbrellas for a day in the sun, particularly at San Martin Beach where there are lifeguards.
At the southern tip of the island is Punta Sur Eco Beach Park, a protected peninsula with probably Cozumel’s prettiest beach. You can enjoy a restaurant, snack bar and rental snorkeling equipment. Also boat rides in a lagoon where you might see crocodiles.
where is cozumel
EXPLORE THE MAYA CULTURE
For a hands-on experience in ancient Maya culture and lifestyle, you have to visit Pueblo del Maiz, a reconstructed pre-Hispanic village nestled among woods in the middle of the island. After painting your face, guides led you to various “stations” in the village.
You can see chocolate being made and then tasted how good it is with only honey as a sweetener. Learn that honey produced by Mexican bees has been used to treat cataracts, skin scars, and high cholesterol. Make tortillas in the traditional way, grinding the corn and then cooking the dough over a fire.
You can watch cerimonial dances and chew chicle, a resin from sapodilla trees that is cooked six hours and is considered a natural way to clean teeth.
Visit the nearby San Gervasio Archaeological Site, the largest of several Maya ruins on the island, reached by walking through forests. Most of the stone structures date from 1,000 to 1500 A.D., including plazas, elite residences, tombs, the main plaza and altars.
ALL RIVIERA MAYA EXCURSIONS
JUNGLE HOUSE
A unique experience, living the jungle even at home cooking, watching TV, relaxing in the bedroom or enjoying the outdoor area taking some sun, enjoying a margarita or having a barbecue under Mexican Sun!
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