Wandering South

We left the luxury hotels and delicious restaurants of Cancun's hotel zone for the even more luxurious resorts of Playa del Carmen, along the Mayan Riviera. Only about 45 minutes South of Cancun, the feeling is dramatically different. Why would you leave the hotel grounds when there's two different pools, a golf course, flamingo and alligator preserves (the enclosed habitats, not the jams), no less than three delicious restaurants, and live entertainment nightly. The setting is still very much in dense jungle, and the daily rain storms did a good job of explaining how the place can get so green.