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.
Tulum Archaeological Zone
Cancun · MX$265 for adults, MX$100 for children under 11, plus MX$20 for the electric shuttle
A walled Maya port city on a cliff above a turquoise bay, the only major Maya site on the coast itself, about two hours south of Cancun.
Time needed
Half to full day
Hours
Open daily 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Tips
The single ticket covers the ruins, the national park and Jaguar Park access. Very little shade on the site, so go early.
Phone
983 837 2411Neighborhood
Day trip from Cancun
Activity providers
Kosher map of Cancun
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.