Cancun - Vacation Capital of Mexico

Cancun, Vacation Capital of Mexico

Cancun is a coastal city in Mexico's easternmost state, Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán Peninsula. Cancun is located on the Yucatan Channel that separates Mexico from the island of Cuba in the Greater Antilles. Cancun's region is known as the Mexican Caribbean. Of all the holiday resorts in Mexico, the one that draw the biggest tourists is Cancun with its subtropical climate, sunny days, beautiful white sand beaches beside the Caribbean Sea’s turquoise-blue water.

Photo of Cancun from the air belongs to Carey Akin

Among all the holiday resorts, Cancun located on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Yucatan channel is the best. Cancun deserves being named the vacation capital of Mexico and is worthwhile visiting. Cancun is blessed with beautiful beaches and crystal clear Caribbean sea which is perfect for snorkeling and scuba diving.



If you are interested in archaeology there is the Tulum nearby which was an ancient walled city of the Mayans.

Cancun is often referred to as the vacation capital of Mexico and nightlife in Cancun is lively. Of all the nightspot, perhaps Coco Bongo is tops. Coco Bongo is the nightclub in Cancun and you can dance to Latin rhythms late into the night there or watch flying acrobats, on-bar conga lines, live bands, even a hanging stage and monstrous video screen. If you prefer pop and electronic music, there are other nightspots like The City, The City Basic, and the Bulldog Café. If live bands is your cup of tea, there are other nightspots like Dady Rock, El Bulldog, or The Hard Rock Café.

Mexicans are talented musicians. Visit Cancun and get serenaded by these talented musicians:



Perhaps nightclubbing is too mundane, too ordinary for you and you want something very different. Try a cruise in the Caribbean Sea on a replica Spanish galleon where not only you can dance to lively music, you will be served by "pirates" and enjoy a sumptuous meal.

Visitors to Cancun are spoilt for choice for the hotel strip of Cancun is more than 30 kilometers long with all kinds of accommodations on offer. There are about 150 hotels in Cancún with more than 24,000 rooms and 380 restaurants. There are 5 stars hotels like the Riu Palace Las Americas Cancun and the Oasis Cancun Resort which is in the shape of a Mayan pyramid (Photos below):




For accommodation, look for cheap Cancun hotels. If you prefer to be near the beach, look for beach front in Cancun. For fancier accommodations, go for Hyatt Regency Cancun

Egyptian Mexican relations and similarities

Egypt first established relations with Mexico in the 1930s. Since then, relations had been cemented via a few significant events:

• Egypt and Mexico played host to the African-Latin dialogue forums in Cairo and Mexico since early 1980s


• Mexico took part in the G-15 meeting in Cairo on May 12-13, 1998


• The two countries have been working with the Middle East and Latin American countries to join the non-proliferation treaty and combat poverty


• In 1998, the Egyptian-Mexican trade exchange totaled $24.388 million


• The Egyptian-Mexican Friendship Association, which was established in August 1998


• The Association for Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which was established in June 1994 to acquaint the Mexican people with the Egyptian civilizational project


• The Egyptian-Mexican Association for Egyptology, established in January 1996

In addition, there is a sticking similarity between Egypt and Mexico - those magnificent ancient pyramids that towers over its surrounding:

Photo of Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx belongs to Paul Mannix

Photo of Teotihuacan Pyramids belongs to Laura Rush

Both Egypt and Mexico have warm and beautiful beaches:

Photo of Urghada beach belongs to Ricardo Liberato

Egypt is a Muslim country and while there are disco of sorts and perhaps most famous of all - Belly Dancing, if nightlife is what you are after, a better bet would be Mexico for nightlife:

Photo of nightlife in Mexico belongs to Omar Eduardo