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Cancun, on
the Caribbean side of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, is a modern playground
with spectacular resorts. A fishing village of 120 people as recently as
1970, CANCÚN is now a city with a resident population of half
a million and receives almost two million visitors a year. Cancún
is marginally closer to Miami than it is to Mexico City and has a lot
to offer: striking
modern hotels on white-sand beaches; high-class entertainment including
parachuting, jet-skiing, scuba-diving and golf; a electric nightlife;
and
from here much of the rest of the Yucatán is easily accessible.
There
are, in effect, two quite separate parts to Cancún: the zona commercial
downtown - the shopping and residential centre which, as it gets older,
is becoming genuinely earthy - and the zona hotelera, a string of hotels
and tourist amenities around "Cancún island", actually
a narrow strip of sandy land connected to the mainland at each end by
causeways. It encloses a huge lagoon, so there's water on both sides.....
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