What are the outdoor activities in and around Yucatan: Riviera Maya, Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Merida, etc.?

One of the things people like to do in the state of Yucatan is drive 4x4s.  There’s a whole group of people who go on a route to the jungle or along the beach; that’s a popular one. There’s the mountain biking, well, without the mountains. There’s two or three groups that take long treks through the jungle on mountain bikes. Then there are tri-athletes who do the swimming, bicycling, and running; that’s very popular here.

 

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One of the things people like to do in the state of Yucatan is drive 4x4s.  There’s a whole group of people who go on a route to the jungle or along the beach; that’s a popular one. There’s the mountain biking, well, without the mountains. There’s two or three groups that take long treks through the jungle on mountain bikes. Then there are tri-athletes who do the swimming, bicycling, and running; that’s very popular here.

 

We have kayaking along the beach or the lagoon that’s very popular, as well as sport fishing. We have scuba diving. Wind surfing and kite surfing are very popular here. At the beach areas in the state of Yucatan, we’re right at the point between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean so we get a constant breeze, which makes the wind surfers and particularly the kite surfers, prevalent along the beach.

 

Among the more extreme sports and one that has been growing in popularity over the last 3 years is cave diving.  There’s a lot of tourist who are experienced divers who specifically come to the Yucatan peninsula to experience some of the cave diving in the cenotes (natural sink hole Yucatan is famous for) here in the peninsula. 

 

You can go diving in the cenotes inland, and also out in the ocean. The Big Blue Hole over by the Yucatan city of Chetumal and for which Belize is famous is actually a cenote.   The Yucatan Peninsula has no lakes or rivers, but it do have an underground river system which connects through all the cenotes in the peninsula and some of these exit at the ocean. So you can enter some of these underground rivers through an inland cenote and wind up at the ocean, or enter through the ocean and go inland.

 

(Polo playing, Yucatan, Mexico, pictured.)