Ways to Spend a Day in Akumal
Akumal is five bays along roughly six miles of coast, from Yal-Kú lagoon in the north to Aventuras Akumal in the south, with a pueblo on the other side of the highway where the people who work here live. Behind it, the jungle runs inland to a Maya community called Uxuxubi, a cave system older than anything above it, and a chain of cenotes that eventually surfaces at Cobá and Chichén Itzá.
You can walk a good deal of the coast. That is the appeal, and it is also why we are suspicious of any plan that puts you in a van five mornings out of six.
So here is what we actually tell guests, sorted by who is traveling. Each set has six days. Three barely leave the neighborhood. Two are half days. One is a real excursion, the kind you book ahead and talk about afterwards.
Akumal Direct, Loco Gringo and AkumalMX have covered this coast for more than thirty years, with a team that lives here. We have been climbing Nohoch Mul since the early nineties and we still go. When we say the bay is best at seven, it is because one of us was in it this morning.