How We Spent our Christmas Vacation

Beaches

Some of the best beaches or playas, are found on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. I personally think the Carribean coast is the best. This is where Cancun is located. Whatever you might think of this tourist mecca, the beach is worldclass. To enjoy the same sand and sun with out jet skis and para-sails, keep going south. Unfortnately Cancunism has been spreading south forcing you to go farther than the half hour needed ten years ago. Now you need to head south for about two hours and find Punta Allen for some twenty kilometer streches of tropical paradise.

Although you are not looking at the sun when it sets on the Caribbean coast, you still have some beautiful skies.

This coast is exposed to hurricanes, but the tress and vegetation keep coming back and crowding against the beaches.

It is hard to find much to complain about on a beach like this one. The waves are enough to provide a calm background, the breeze enough to keep the temperature tolerable, and the sand is the consistency of sugar.

Does it get any better?

Majahual is a forty-kilometer drive toward the coast from the main highway, which connects Chetumal (the Belize border) and Filipe Carrillo Puerto. This is a tough forty-kilometer drive. Lots of potholes, the kind that will throw you off the road if you hit them right on and fast enough. The beach is pretty, but primitive.

Majahual was an active lobster-fishing village. Fishing has slowed, but tourist diving is popular.

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