{"id":49,"date":"2020-11-06T23:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2020-11-09T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T09:08:49","slug":"cancun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/06\/cancun\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Looking ahead to 2021, plenty of us will considering a trip south acroos the border to Cancun.  Trips to Cancun have it all.  On top of the 13+ miles of beaches, there is plenty of nightlife, modern shopping malls and Mayan ruins a short trip away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The northern beaches are sheltered by a small island and have calmer waters whilst the eastern beaches have more waves.  Take your pick depending on what you are looking for from a day at the beach.  For sun lovers the sun shines for 250 days a year.  The driest part of the year is from January to May and temperatures average between 28\u00b0C and  34\u00b0C depending on the season.  Sea temperatures average  27\u00b0C.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/cancun-1682126_1920-1024x393.jpg\" alt=\"Beach - Cancun - Mexico\" class=\"wp-image-591\"\/><figcaption>Beach &#8211; Cancun &#8211; Mexico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a 90 minute drive away perched above 40 ft cliffs you will find one of Mexico&#8217;s best preserved Mayan costal sites.  At Tulum you will find a walled city that was a bustling metropolis from the 13th to 15th centuries.  Don&#8217;t miss out on the Temple of the Frescoes and its numerous murals, the Temple of the Descending God which is a single room accessed via a narrow staircase on top of another temple that served as its base,  and finally the pyramid shaped El Castillo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tulum-2125558_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Tulum - Cancun - Mexico\" class=\"wp-image-593\"\/><figcaption>Tulum &#8211; Cancun &#8211; Mexico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in Cancun there are a wide range of hotels to suit every pocket and in the evenings there is everything from sports bars to ballet and everything inbetween.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sunset-85070_1920-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset - Cancun - Mexico\" class=\"wp-image-595\"\/><figcaption>Sunset &#8211; Cancun &#8211; Mexico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking ahead to 2021, plenty of us will considering a trip south acroos the border to Cancun. Trips to Cancun have it all. On top of the 13+ miles of beaches, there is plenty of nightlife, modern shopping malls and Mayan ruins a short trip away. The northern beaches are sheltered by a small island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,49,15,48,17],"tags":[12,51,50,11,52,27],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-cancun","category-caribbean","category-mexico","category-sun","tag-beach","tag-cancun","tag-mexico","tag-sun","tag-tulum","tag-winter-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grippedbytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}