See Below: Guides | Travel/Transportation | Food | Learning Experience
Guides
Excellent source for straightforward travel information on The Yucatan.
As the webmasters of Yucatan Today, these two writers and web designers realized there is a lot more they can write about. The Working Gringos live and work in Merida, the capital of The Yucatan. They give a lot of great information from a personal perspective – from great restaurant recommendations to how to buy a house.
Both an online and print resource for visiting the Riviera Maya
An extensive guide to all of Latin America.
Learn about the delicate ecosystems of the playa, adopt a turtle, peruse the photolibrary, and learn how to ‘be’ at the beach.
Discuss
Tulum.info: all about Tulum
Travel Resources
Link to information on ADO’s luxury busline.
This is the first class busline that runs to the major cities in The Yucatan.
Expedia.com is the world’s leading online travel provider, helping more than 25 million travelers per month easily plan and book travel.
Book your flight and hotel and get a rental car too!
Easily search over 100 web sites for airfare, hotels, and car rentals. Quickly refine your search to find the best travel deal. Book directly with the hotel, airline or agency of your choice for the best prices!
Hotels.com is a leading provider of lodging worldwide. They give travelers one of the widest selections of lodging accommodations from traditional hotels to vacation rentals at more than 70,000 properties worldwide. They offer a one-stop source for hotel pricing, amenities and availability and also specializes in providing travelers with accommodations during sold-out periods.
Language
We don’t care how you do it, we just think that learning another language, like Italian, and learning how to communicate in another culture is as important to travel as buying the plane ticket! Check out one or more of these language learning options!
Rosetta Stone : UK (Look for the US version of the software in our amazon shop)
Lonely Planet : take your language helper along with you in your bag. Small, portable, phrasebooks to help you get through the day almost anywhere in the world.
World Heritage Sites
Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
Historic Fortified Town of Campeche
Nearby:
Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
Tikal National Park, Guatamala
Experience the Culture through its Food
“Designed for people who love to cook (but who are not necessarily professional chefs), each class at Los Dos begins with coffee and pastries and ends with a fabulous meal that you and Chef Sterling prepare together … You will learn to cook traditional Yucatecan dishes in an environment much like that in which they were originally prepared.” This school is in Merida.
Learning Experience
Cancun Spanish Language Institute
Classes in the Spanish language in Cancun.
“Founded in 1995, the Institute of Modern Spanish was the first private language institute in the city of Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico, to develop educational programs devoted to the instruction of the Spanish language and Mexican & Latin American culture through full language immersion. …”
Located in Playa del Carmen this language school offers courses in Spanish that start at the beginning of each month. It may also be possible to take classes in the Maya language.
