Cancun, Mexico

Cancun on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Cancun, Mexico – January and July 2017

Downtown Cancun

A street in downtown Cancun, with white apartment buildings and a small police station.

White apartment buildings with red trim and parked cars along a downtown Cancun street, with a palm in the foreground.
White four-story apartment building on a downtown Cancun street, with a small blue-and-white police station labeled POLICIA.

Museo Maya de Cancun

The museum building, courtyard art, and Maya ruins on the grounds.

White museum building with three tall perforated sculptures standing in a shallow pool.
Colorful painted sculpture of a fantastical animal with a frilled neck, standing on a museum courtyard path.
Colorful painted sculpture of a winged dragon standing under museum columns.
White columns and a tropical garden courtyard at the Museo Maya de Cancun.
Shaded sandy path through trees, edged with stones.
Low stone ruins and grassy platforms among trees.
Stone stairway leading up a Maya ruin, roped off at the base.
Stone sculpture of a serpent head with an open mouth, on display in the museum.

The beach, street art, and a restaurant

A jaguar sculpture, the Caribbean beach, and a restaurant dining room.

Jaguar sculpture leaping from a painted jungle wall against a blue sky.
Beach restaurant terrace with white chairs and a blue umbrella looking out to palapas, white sand, and turquoise water.
Overhead view of a busy restaurant dining room with wooden tables and hanging lights.