Looking at Cancun, it's hard to believe that another 40 years ago it was all forgotten Island At the coast of the Peninsula Yucatan, washed with waters Caribbeanwhere coconut palms grew up.

As long as the then the Government of Mexico did not wave with his hand and did not proclaim: "There will be a garden-garden resort, yes with a twist of Acapulco." (And what was the city of Acapulco, you can see the movie "Fun in Acapulco" (Fun In Acapulco) of 1963 with Elvis himself in the lead role). They took $ 27 million from American bourgeois bankers and decided to defeat nature. And heed out excavators, and drove the sand trucks to build the road, tied the island with the mainland. Then the airport added, hotels ... and they were driving labor and tourists. Ah, no, the workforce was taken before tourists, and how it would be built all this.

By the beginning of construction on January 23, 1970, cancun Island (Isla Cancun) There were only three people who looked after Coconut Plantation Don José De Jesús Lima Gutiérrez. Another 117 people lived in the fishing village of Puerto Juarez. Besides them I. military baseThere were only the forest and the sea. Cancun became the first project of the "turnkey city". For arriving workers, at home, kindergartens, schools and other infrastructure at the place of former jungle were immediately built at home. And at present, Cancun's population exceeded half a million people, not counting three million annual tourists.

Despite the fact that we live long enough in the state of Kintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula, and already visited all the surrounding Kabaki Islands, cities, villages, villages, climbed the jungle and spoiled the sea, a special desire to go to Cancun never appeared. Because for me, Cancun was, above all, the big city where there is big Airport (I have a little behind my house in Playa_del-Carmen) and very large houses on the beach. I saw them from afar and was already afraid, because it was just known that there was not at all in Rio de Janeiro. If I had my own car, perhaps everything would be easier. But the rarest shafts in Cancun "on Affairs" - pay tickets to Havana or search mysterious russian consulate- limited to a couple of clock.

And this time in Cancun we again brought. Already three.

1. Monster High doll, which I generously agreed to buy Peremolo Ramon, turned out to be open in all stores Playa del Carmen. And we decided to go to look into the big city of Cancun, "in which it is exactly, because there is everything there is cancun."
2. Meet Babu Zoya at Cancun Airport ,.
3. And between these two inevitable affairs - after all, look at the beaches there are so as not to look very wildly in the eyes of people who take housing "on the first line with the view."

And we sat on the ADO bus, which for 1 hour and 45 peso brought us from Playa del Carmen in big city. Cancun is divided into two parts - the city center of Downtown and Zona Hotera, which differ like the sky and the earth.

Both parts of Cancun bind bus routes R1 and R2, at a price of 8.5 pesos. Well, that's why 8.5, not 8 or not 9?! The most interesting thing is not to pay for children (which I never do in Playa) of them, it turns out, it is necessary to enter into transport in hand, keeping high above your head, to avoid being counted by the secret Passengers, which is fastened at the entrance.

At Downtown (El Centro) everything is much cheaper, there are giant supermarkets, bus station, cheap hotels And cafes, the word - almost real Mexico.

Giant hotels are located in the hotel area of \u200b\u200bCancun, bars, discos, and transcendental price tags, and prices for them are often listed in US dollars. And so that tourists do not forget where Sombrero is hung everywhere.

The hotel area itself has a form of sausage (it seems it was already somewhere), sausages in the form of numbers 7, 23 km long, which kindly separates the largest (3000 hectares) Laguna Nichupté. Laguna Nutness is associated with the sea with two channels (Siegfried and Nizuc) and consists of seven other lagoon. It was NachpoThe was the most big secretcooked for us cancany. The beach there was good, despite the terribly hanging over the head of the building, built for sleep and nutrition of tourists. But when we switched to the other side of the highway ... We just nailed to the place from the type of mangrove thickets, shiny, like glass transparent water And the sunset in all the sky. I can not understand why no one previously told us what a miracle, this lagoon in Cancun, what are the sunsets there. How great, probably ride there on the boat, stroking crocodiles.

With difficulty, taking off from contemplating such beauty, we rushed back. More precisely, it's not back, but to the airport, where your grandmother with drying and buckwheat, but without a phone and the address, sadly waited for us for 20 minutes, inventing a spare plan. When picking it, we went to our downtime, short, and because.

There are several places that get rid of you from boredom if you suddenly get tired of lying on the beach, and it does not want to go too far. As an example, we will immediately make two fascinating boats.

Women Isla (Isla Mujeres).

At first we will go to Isla Muheres ("Women Island"), which is just half an hour by ferry from the city. This is a small island of 1100 km² with a population of a little more than 16,000 people. On the map he resembles a dried fish.

I came here on a tourist boat as part of a snorcling tour. Snorkeling, however, was boring, but I enjoyed enough sea walk And I managed to see the island during our two-hour stop. You can easily get here yourself.

How to get to the island of women: On the ferry Ultramar. There are several departure terminals in Cancun; Prices are on tariffs at one end / back-back (for 2017).

From the port of Puerto Juarez

• departure address: López Portillo SM-84 M-5 L-6 PUERTO JUÁREZ
• there: every half an hour 5: 00-21: 30, 22:30, 23:30
• back: Every half hour 5: 30-21: 30, 22:00, 23:00, 00:00
• cost: adults - 100/200 Pesos, children - 80/150 pesos.

From Playa Tortugas Beach in the hotel area

• departure Address: Playa Tortugas, Blvd.Kukulcán KM 6.5, Zona Hoterara
• there: every hour 9: 00-14: 00, 16: 00-18: 00, 19:15, 20:30
• back: Every hour 9: 30-13: 30, 15: 30-17: 30, 18:45, 20:00, 21:15

From the port of El Embarcadero in the hotel area

• departure Address: El Embarcadero, Blvd.kukulcán Km 4, Zona Hoterara
• tUA: 9:15, 10:30, 11:45, 13:00, 14:15, 16:30, 18:15, 19:30, 20:45
• reverse: 9:45, 11:00, 12:15, 13:30, 16:00, 17:15, 9:15 pm
• cost: adults 14/19 dollars, children 8/12 dollars.

From Playa Caracol Beach in hotels

• departure Address: Playa Caracol, Blvd.kukulcán KM 9.5, Zona Hoterara
• tUA: 9:00, 10:15, 11:30, 12:45, 14:00, 16:45
• reverse: 9:45, 11:00, 12:15, 13:30, 16:00, 17:15
• cost: adults 14/19 dollars, children 8/12 dollars.

Pier on Isle Mucheres.

The island of women is very small, it consists of a central street and several public beaches. There are also accommodation hotels for guests. We immediately headed for a walk around the surrounding area, in order not to waste time. Welcome to main Street Islands!

As it was assumed, she was stuck with a string of cafes, bars, souvenir shops and trays with all sorts of causes.

Cheerful bar on central street. Try Mexican Viagra!

The island of women received such namedue to the fact that when he was discovered by the Spaniards, many female figures of Maya, depicting the goddess of fertility and medicine. The theme of Maya and Aztecs are well disclosed on souvenir trays Isle Mucheres. As you have already noticed, various statuettes and dishes are sold here in the form of hotly beloved by these cultures of skulls. And here is a bench with a lady with a crypt.

And one more, this time with a brutal mexican.

Most of the houses on the island have a white-blue and white-blue color, which looks very organically and makes thinking about the sea.

To move on Isle Muheres, you can remove golf cards or moped. And those and others we met practically every step.

We also saw many tourists pacing with coconuts from which juice drink through the tube. We did not have enough time to find a magic tent with this paradise pleasure, but we found a store where delicious coconut ice cream was sold. Then, turning on another street, we stumbled upon a local school.

What else to look at the island of women:

• Several lighthouses.
• Mexican cemetery. It sounds gloomily for vacation, but, we would know in advance, then they would definitely look here: his photos on the Internet give out unusual forms of multi-colored tombstones, characteristic of Mexico.
• Not far from the island is one of the parts. It was here that we swam with masks and tubes. And the reason why I was left is not delighted with snorkeling, it is always customizing the guide and poor visibility of underwater statues from the surface. It is better to dive with the aqualung.
• You can rummage with whale sharks, swim with dolphins, go down cableway Or look at the Farm Turtle.
• Museum of Captain Dulce dedicated to the Sea and Maritime.
• One and several beaches. Many advise the North Beach (Playa Norte).
• Ice Bar on Tiburon Beach (Playa Tiburon). Its interior is fully made of ice, which is rather strange for the hot mexico. I visited a similar place in Amsterdam, it was fun.

Here are a few frames from Tiburon Beach, where our group drove for lunch. The water here is dirty, I would not swim in it, but the sand is white. I made a pair of frames from the series " paradisaic delight" Since I did not find coconut with juice, photographed the real coconuts.

Laguna Nichupté (Laguna Nichupté).

One of the features of the Mexican nature is its mangrove trees that grow right in the water, creating charming views of the shores of quiet lagoon and reservoirs. The nearest mangroves can be seamined on the island of women in the areas of the beaches, and in Cancun along the hotel area. But I watched the real beauty in the spacious Lagoon, this zone envelopes in the form of numbers "7".

My second snorkling trip began with her, when we went out through the Nutty Sea. Water in the lagoon is fresh. As guides say, it is warmer here than in the sea due to underwater sources heating the lagoon from below. On her shores are restaurants and small pier for boats.

I fell in love at first sight.

Light breeze, serene, mysterious mangars, beauty!

In the lagoon, Nuts can be done water species Sports - windsurfing, kayaking, and others.

Yucatan Peninsula is the habitat of the greatest population of crocodiles and alligator in Mexico. Main 3 types: Ostrogly, Crocodile Cayman and Central American crocodile. In the lagoon, Nachuptu, lying on one of the parties of the Cancuna Hotel, are all the above. On the road passing around the lagoon there are many signs of warning careless tourists about the danger:

From time to time in local newspapers, bloody articles are emerging, screaming about breeded bodies. local residents, on the bilateral limbs of tourists who have lost their vigilance, feeding the reptile. The incidents happen most often on Fridays or Saturdays, when simple mexicans decide to relax and drink a little beer, after which they often fall asleep until the morning of the lagoon in mangroves. Wake up like you already understood, not all ...

In August 2014, 3 torn corpses were found in the area of \u200b\u200bthe hotel area near Cancun Lagoon. Two Mexicans and Canadian. Russian tourists, judging by rumors, they themselves catch crocodiles at night.

Our crocodiles are mostly activated at sunset and awake until the morning. If you decide to walk in the evening and look at the sunset on the lagoon - be careful about the water. And of course swimming only if the light is no longer mil.

Wishing to see these amazing reptiles in the district, I would advise some good places:

• Rio Reserve Lagartos
• Biosphere selestun
• Zoo Crocokun
• Punta Sur Reserve on Cozumel Island:

In the reserve Punta Sur, on the island of Cozumel, after 4 pm there is a daily evacuation of tourists. At sunset, Cayman moves from cooled marshes to the ocean through the main road running along the beaches to spend the night in the sea. The fact is that local alligators can inhabit both fresh and salt water. At dawn, Caimans run from the sea back across the road to their heated swamps.

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Approximately an hour after sunset, crocodiles occur to peak activity. At this time, they are interested in everything that moves or makes interesting (not sharp) sounds. You need a powerful lamp and a place where you can approach the edge of salty marshes, such as the lagoon surrounding the lagoon in Cancune or are near Puerto Morelos..

Place where we are usually watching crocodiles in Puerto Morelos:

Process

• You need to quietly approach the edge of water and illuminate the surface of the water to the distance of about 70 meters
• If you see two burning points above the surface of the water - this is most likely the eyes of crocodiles
• You need to publish the following sound:

• After that, just wait, after about 10 minutes, you will see how two last minute points begin to approach you.
• You just need to quietly wait until the crocodile will not fit to you for a distance of 5-k / 3 meters. At this time, crocodiles usually go under the water to imperceptibly swim to you closer and then grab you jumping out from under the water. I advise you not to wait for this moment and calmly move away from the shore.

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Types of our crocodiles

Sea cows in the Belize region and Banko Chinchorro in Mexico.

I continue to talk about your own.

For the second time it turns out that I come to a small Mexican city in The Middle of Nowhere, I do not expect anything special, and here it is immediately so many surprises.

The first time was in when I got to the festival and Tancina with a sapoteki in national costumes.

Now I will tell you about Bachelor - This is a town near the border with Belize. Few people get here, because 5 hours ride by bus from the side beach - too long for the modern youth prone to boys and gulyans. But I love such a place where the foot of a foreign tourist is not so often steps.

Bachelor is famous for what is here Laguna bakal (Laguna Bacalar) or Lagoon 7-colors.

In fact, this is a lake with bright blue water. It is believed that in the water you can distinguish between seven different shades of blue. I distinguished 4, and that's good. In fact, water in the lagoon looks like sea.

Impressive. We were there in the period of the Easter vacation, so Mexican families crowded in coastal restaurants and was in general crowded. Very.

The shores of the lake are slightly shipped with garbage, or the grass is growing grows, so I don't jump immediately

But if you go a little in such bridges, located in several places around the perimeter of the lake, you can feel the beauty of warm blue water, white sand under the legs and splashing around the children

The town of Bakallar is quite small, rather even the village. I remembered the Philippine very me. The same roosters sing, the same dogs on the roads rest.

In the center of Sokal, as usual.

But from an unusual fort here, which in ancient times, the Spaniards used as protection against numerous pirated attacks. Everyone remembers the Pirates of the Caribbean, yes?

But in the evening I was just atas! Festival, visited by the 100th anniversary of some protest. At first there were songs about the bachelor, the pieces of Stage 10, and with a scope that in every corner of the city heard. And then the costume representation of the Maya Indians.

Scenes of the extraction of fire, sacrificing a girl, child salvation from predators, male domination over a woman. In general, thighs! Guys are great! Mexico, e-mine!

All this was accompanied by frightening music, drums, rattles, hissing, squeezes and other screams. Really cosmos !!!

I never had anything like that. It was especially unexpectedly finding such a show in a tiny town, and even for free. Eh, the Mexicans are able to arrange holidays that they say.

And then there were dances under the crown Latin live music. The guys played just beyond the face of fiction, and there I have already entered the rage and showed everyone how to twist the booty.

In the morning of the next day, we went again to the lagoon of the bachelor swim until merry holidaymakers came up.

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Amuppinous lagoon is often mentioned among Mexican natural attractions. it beautiful place Located in Cancun. Here are grown picturesque mangrove trees, in warm waters There are large fish and crocodiles about which signs warn. Along the coast there is cafes and restaurants, as well as equipment rental points for outdoor activities.

The most popular entertainment in the waters of Nutness: diving and snorkeling, they ride here water skis And catch fish. Spend a romantic evening on the beach to admire an incredibly beautiful caribbean sunset. At your service numerous excursion tours from local residents, for example:

Jungle Tour, a boat tour with a jungle guide, enjoys special demand for those who came here for the first time. You will see beautiful landscapesAnd also learn a lot of interesting things about the local flora and fauna.

A boat ride with a glass bottom - it is especially suitable for families with children. You will go to the coral reef and admire the underwater inhabitants, not shivering the legs.

Thematic walking in the Spanish Galeon of the XVIII century is an entertainment cruise with a full immersion in the era of piracy.

Fishing - Waters of the Lagoon are a natural nursery for fish, rather large copies come across (10-12 kg). Try the method of catching local residents - bare hands.

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