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\n\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAt a Glance\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTravel Guide\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSample Itinerary\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInsights\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\tCancun luxury travel begins with a reframe: the Hotel Zone is not the destination. That narrow strip of all-inclusives along the coast is exactly what it looks like – but Cancun as an airport, as a gateway to the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula, is one of the most useful access points in the Americas. Within two hours of landing, you can be swimming in an underground cenote that was sacred to the Maya for two thousand years. Within three hours, you’re at Chich\u00e9n Itz\u00e1 before the tour buses arrive. Within four hours, you’re in M\u00e9rida, the most livable and culturally sophisticated city in all of Mexico.
\nThe travelers who leave Cancun without venturing inland have done themselves a disservice. The travelers who use it as the jumping-off point it’s designed to be consistently have one of the best weeks of their travel lives.\n\t\t

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At a Glance<\/h3>

The Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula sits at the northeastern corner of Mexico, jutting into the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The landscape is flat limestone karst – which is why the cenotes exist. Rainwater dissolves the limestone over millennia, creating underground river systems and sinkholes that break through to the surface. The Maya, who built their civilization here for over two thousand years, considered cenotes sacred gateways to the underworld and used them as sacrificial sites. Today there are approximately 6,000 mapped cenotes in the Yucat\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

The coastline runs south from Cancun through Puerto Morelos, Playa del Carmen, and Tulum – the Riviera Maya. Inland, the colonial cities of M\u00e9rida and Valladolid offer a completely different register: Spanish Baroque churches, markets, and a sophisticated food culture rooted in Yucatecan cooking, which is distinct from the Mexican cuisine most Americans know.<\/p>\n

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