Cancun beach

Cancun

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October 11th 2010
I'm writing this from my new laptop in a Vancouver Hostel, but more on that in the next edition! Just a little catch up on our last stop in Mexico. We arrived in Cancun to discover it really was different to Playa, just like everyone had told us!! My best analogy is Cancun is like the Gold Coast, and Playa del Carmen is Byron Bay. Checked into a nice hotel downtown, he gave us a better r ... read more

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more