About our trip to Cancun
jewel December 20th, 2009
Cancun was a lot of fun! We spent a week completely unplugged. No phone, no email, no weather channel, no news. The rest of the world could have been blown to bits and we wouldn’t have known (well, I’m sure someone would have told us if it had). Every now and again it really is nice to just let the rest of the world fade away. Now we’re back to our normal life and I figured I would write about my trip.
Interestingly, nearly every time I mentioned to someone that we were vacationing in Cancun the first thing they asked is “is it safe there?”. Although Mexico has seen a lot of drug related violence, most of that violence is in the border cities far away from Cancun. Mexico is a large country with quite the range in safety and violence. One of my coworkers also vacationed in Cancun a few weeks ago and he said he had been warned against leaving the resort, so they didn’t. I find that sad, because all the warnings I could find really dealt with other parts of Mexico. Cancun and it’s surrounding areas really have so much to offer. To not see any of it really is tragic. I’ve been to Cancun and the surrounding areas twice now and haven’t felt the slightest bit unsafe. We haven’t gone exploring completely on our own because neither of us speaks much Spanish. Tourist Spanish really only goes so far. So we book tours to places we want to see. And even when we have had free time to explore the areas we have visited we have not felt unsafe at all.
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