PGA Tour 2011

Mayakoba Golf Classic at the Riviera Maya- Cancun
Part of the PGA Tour 2011
A Greg Norman Production Company Event

Quick facts:
Official name: Mayakoba Golf Classic at the Riviera Maya- Cancun (MGC)
Date: February 23- 27, 2011
Defending champion: Cameron Beckman (65-68-69-67-269)
Former champions include: Mark Wilson, Fred Funk and Brian Gay
Purse: 3,7 million USD
Course: 72 holes Camaleon Golf Club at Mayakoba
Location: Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Mayakoba Golf Classic (MGC), Mexico’s only PGA TOUR event will take place for the 5th time in Mayakoba, Playa del Carmen, Mexico from February 24th to February 27th, 2011. In a natural and unique environment, the PGA TOUR offers a full day of tournament among amateurs and professionals followed by four professional rounds at El Camaleon golf course, designed by the world renowned golf legend, Greg Norman. 131 professional players will be competing for the 3.7 million USD purse.

Mayakoba Golf course is located in the vibrant destination of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Only 35 miles south from Cancun in the heart of the Riviera Maya and by the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea. Great, prestigious hotels of world famous chains around the golf course offer you high class accommodation like Fairmont Mayakoba, Rosewood Mayakoba, Banyan Tree Mayakoba, and Las Velas. Great weather, golf, white sandy beaches, water sport activities, lush tropical vegetation, ecotours, Mayan archaeological sites and plenty of fun are waiting for you in the surrounding areas. If you don't get there on time for the PGA tour event make sure you take advantage of the unbeatable "after tournament offers" in all services. Don't miss out! (Check the up-to-date offers on http://cancun.eu)

Underwater Museum in Cancun

Cancun seems to be in constant development in 2010.
This year has brought many many new things that definitely help us take the final
decision that it is a must-do activity to return to this popular Caribbean destination.

The beach recovery has left Cancun beaches with spectacular, long sandy beaches! Perfect place to take a breath, and sit down - playing with the new brightly white sand in our hands,to wonder the amazing turquoise Ocean view, and don't think of any common stressful thought, just simply sit and enjoy the sound of waves passing by.

Ok, but after you have recharged your energies, you feel like you need something
really special! Here we are! An Underwater museum with underwater sculptures!
Another new and unique monument in Cancun! Actually, the largest underwater museum in our World! A magical area between Cancun and the island in front of Cancun, called Isla Mujeres (half an hour on ferry to cross) will be the home place of this museum, within the Marine Natural Park.

You have to submerge to the depth of 3 to 6 meters in the Caribbean Sea to see the pieces exposed, approximately 400 sculptures!!! The artist is a recognized British sculptor, Jason de Caires Taylor. The theme of the sculptures will vary; there will be local Mayan theme pieces, and other moments of our everyday life. One sculpture that is called the “Dream Catcher” cannot wait YOUR message! Yes, yes, YOUR message! Since you can put in a bottle your message and leave it there attached to this sculpture! The first message belongs to Lic. Roberto Diaz Abraham, the President of the Underwater Museum, tells: “May our hearts, never become as hard as our heads”.

Beside to be a new attraction at this well-known tourist destination, another very important point of the underwater museum is that it is a real Green, eco-project with the aim to create more coral reefs and conserve the existing ones. The coral reefs help the ecosystem to restore the bigger and bigger damages of the global warming that is why it has such a big importance.

By now, the next step is to sink about 250 sculptures by April 2010. All of us cannot wait to hear more news about this unique Underwater museum!

PGA Golf Tour in Mexico

When you come to Cancun these holidays, besides bringing a luggage filled with bathing suits and sun lotions, remember to pack as well your golf clubs and a shiny pair of moccasins, because the PGA Golf Tour is coming to the Riviera Maya and you can be part of the golfing atmosphere too!, it doesn’t matter if it’s not in the main events among the Pro’s, because when you are playing in a professionally designed golf course like the Playacar Spa & Golf Club Designed by the Arq. Robert von Hagge - a professional course 18 holes par 72 with 7,144 yds – you will feel like you are also a famous golf personality.

Between the 17Th and 21st of February this year, The PGA Tour comes at the only golf course that hosts this event in Mexico; El Camaleon Mayakoba, a 18 holes, 7,024 yards golf club with three beautiful landscapes with views that only the Yucatan region can offer. Designed by Greg Norman, El Camaleon is a truly multi-layered course having different types of landscape like mangrove forest, Caribbean beach and lots of breathtaking sights, giving the most skilled golfer a thrilling and emotional experience.

So give yourself a treat worthy of a Caesar, and reserve a Tee Time at El Camaleon Mayakoba Playa del Carmen where you can also learn from a professional instructor if you are willing to get some private lessons. And just to give you more confidence, why not to dress like the champions and make a stop at the golf shop, where you will find the top brands in clothing and golf gear.

And when the sun sets on the horizon, the abundance of activities don’t cease at the golf course, because the Mexican Caribbean has plenty to offer, from Cancun to Tulum, you can enjoy a delicious dinner at one of the many deluxe restaurants, where visitors will have an all sensory feast, pleasing their stomachs with delicious international cuisine or traditional Mexican plates and giving their whole bodies, a relaxed and comfortable moment after an exciting golfing experience.

With many night activities, you won’t feel like going to bed early. The many bars, pubs, clubs and discotheques like Coco Bongo in Cancun and Playa del Carmen, some of them located by the beach, where you will party until the early morning to watch the sun rise again!

Well, there you have it, another great excuse to play golf in this holiday or another pretext to extend your golf tour and transform it into a longer vacation, enjoying everything that the Mexican Caribbean may offer to a golf enthusiast or any other traveller wishing to get a different perspective from the last of this winter days, changing the routine of removing the white snow from your car’s windshield to observing the green panorama of a golf course through your golf cart.

Cancun, A Hot Place In The Cold Days

Welcome 2010...and welcome climate change! The Weather in Cancun is not what it used to be. Today thermometers were showing 3°C temperature in the first hours at night. Not the typical weather for a Caribbean resort such as Cancun. Houses here are built to be fresh and to keep freshness inside, nowadays you cannot escape using air conditioning.
Lately, summers have become hotter, so you just lower the temperature on the A/C, problem solved, and winters have become colder, so you just switch on the heater and... wait a minute, there are no heaters at homes and hotels in Cancun, is not needed, or at least it wasn’t , with temperatures reaching sometimes 42°C and almost 100% humidity at summertime, who would even have the horrendous idea of installing a device to warm your house or hotel room? But today... I guess it is something that we need to reconsider. So, with no heater in the rooms at night, what can be done?

Well, you have two options: in case that you want to sleep, just put over the bed 3 or 4 blankets (wonderful and colourful Mexican handmade blankets are found at any places you go in Mexico, you can even bring them home as a souvenir!) ... and problem solved!

However, we have a better option for you: come on! Let’s go party! Visit Coco Bongo in the heart of Cancun Hotel Zone, and we definitely guarantee that you won’t need heater anymore! The atmosphere, the super Las Vegas live shows and the greatest music hits will keep you warm! And we have not even mention the Tequila that always keeps you warm!

During the day, it is simply gorgeous that the weather is cooler!!! It is amazing and pleasant for all those, who enjoy warm, but not too warm, so for all, who come from a non-tropical climate!
Just a few weeks before, you could see people coming from the beach, searching for an airconditioned shelter with a shiny skin due to the sweating. Tourists either entered the luxury shopping malls, just to freshen themselves or others didn’t even think about leaving their hotel: they rather sat in the bar of the hotel drinking a frozen cocktail (a very attracting option).
Now, many tourists chose any of the outdoor activities. The list is very long, so don’t worry, you will definitely find a perfect one that suits you! Check out our next post!