City overview
Cancun is Mexico's best-known Caribbean resort city, a seventeen-mile barrier island of white sand and turquoise water lined end to end with resorts, with a working Mexican city of nearly a million people behind it and the Maya interior a short drive inland. Isla Mujeres lies a twenty-minute ferry ride offshore and trades the high-rise strip for golf carts, a walkable town centre and the calm shallow water of Playa Norte. Between them they cover almost every kind of trip, from all-inclusive beach weeks to diving, Maya ruins and day sails. Jewish travel here is unusually well served for a resort destination: Chabad Jewish Center of Cancun sits inside Kukulcan Plaza in the heart of the Hotel Zone, Cancun's own Orthodox community, Neve Shalom, numbers around forty-eight families, and Chabad of Isla Mujeres runs a shul and a kosher restaurant on the island itself. Three certified restaurants operate in the Hotel Zone under Mexican supervision, and both Chabad houses serve Shabbat meals to visitors who book ahead.
MUSA Underwater Museum of Art
Cancun · Operator Punta Nizuc tours departing Cancun: snorkel USD58.00; glass-bottom boat USD58.00. Both exclude USD22.00 docking/National Marine Park fee. Rates apply to named tours, not general museum admission. Other galleries/departures/diving packages cost differently. Confirm child eligibility, port/weather status and final total.
Hundreds of life-size sculptures sunk onto the seabed to form an artificial reef, visited by snorkel in the shallow Punta Nizuc gallery and by dive at the deeper Manchones gallery off Isla Mujeres.
Time needed
3-4 hours including boat time
Hours
Open daily 9:00 AM–2:00 PM
Tips
The Punta Nizuc gallery sits in about four metres of water and can be snorkelled; Manchones is eight metres and is a dive site. Access is by authorised operator only.
Phone
998 206 0182Address
Quintana Roo, MexicoNeighborhood
Punta Nizuc and Manchones Reef, Cancun
Activity providers
Kosher map of Cancun
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