Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The pedestrian street of Playa del Carmen, running parallel to the beach for several kilometres from Parque Los Fundadores northwards. It is lined with shops, restaurants, bars and hotels, and the cross streets lead down to the sea.
A seafront square at the southern end of Quinta Avenida, beside the beach and the Cozumel ferry pier. It holds the Portal Maya, a 16-metre bronze arch of two figures by Arturo Tejero, and the pole from which voladores perform their flying ritual.
An adventure park of the Xcaret group in the forest beside Xcaret, opened in 2009. Its circuits combine zip lines over the jungle, amphibious vehicles on dirt tracks, and rafting and swimming through underground rivers and caves with stalactites; an evening version runs by torchlight.
A park on the coast about 6 km south of Playa del Carmen, opened in 1990 on the site of the Maya port of Polé. Paths and underground rivers lead past Maya ruins, an aquarium, a butterfly pavilion, jaguars, a coral-reef lagoon and a hillside cemetery; the evening show Xcaret México Espectacular covers Mexican history and music.
A cave system with an underground river south of Playa del Carmen, found in 2006 and opened to visitors as a nature reserve. Guided groups in wetsuits and helmets walk and swim through partly flooded chambers full of stalactites and stalagmites, lit only by lamps.
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