What’s on in the Riviera Maya in September

Ooh la la, did I conscionable swoon? I deliberation I did. Mérida’s got it going connected this month, with the world’s top-selling salsa creator of each time, Marc Anthony’s performance taking halfway stage. But there’s much than conscionable the swoon-worthy croonings of Marc Antony. There’s the bravest contention obstacle course, oversea turtle season, Mexico’s Independence Day, evening motorcycle rides and overmuch much (just similar past month). Let’s not hide the feathered serpent moving down the broadside of the pyramid during the Autumn Equinox, either, oregon competitors from each astir the satellite moving astir Cozumel for Ironman.

Turtle play successful Isla Mujeres

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It whitethorn beryllium dilatory play successful Cancún, but that’s superb quality for you. You won’t person to conflict crowds to spot hundreds of hawksbill, greenish and loggerhead oversea turtles get connected Isla Mujeres. It’s oversea turtle play determination arsenic they are returning to their protected nesting beaches. Plus, eggs laid successful July are acceptable to hatch now. So you mightiness spot babies! Jump connected a ferry from Cancún (it’s lone a 20-minute thrust implicit to the island) and witnesser this fantastic earthy occurrence. 

Date: September

Location: Isla Mujeres

Cost: Free, oregon terms babelike connected the section guide

Lighting of Patriotic Lights

(Tulum Travel Blog)

Watch Tulum travel live with lights connected September 4th. It’s the metropolis getting into the tone of the upcoming Independence Day arsenic it lights up with patriotic colors to people the commencement of the celebrations. 

Date: Sept. 4

Location: Tulum

Cost: Free

Powerful photograph exhibit

(SIC Mexico)

The Palacio Cantón Museum successful Mérida has a caller accumulation for September: “Donde la ceniza hizo nido (Where Ash Made Its Nest).” It’s a almighty postulation of photogravures exploring the narration betwixt nonaccomplishment and representation done ocular language. The grounds promises to alteration remnants into ocular memory, poetically evoking what burns distant and what endures. 

Date: September

Location: Palacio Cantón Museum, Meridá

Cost: 95 pesos

Nighttime motorcycle tour

(Yucatan Travel)

I’d emotion to bash this, particularly arsenic the vigor of the time cools off. On the archetypal Saturday of each month, this nighttime motorcycle thrust has go a classical Mérida tradition! Enjoy a thrust on Paseo de Montejo, creating a memorable evening with friends oregon family. The avenue is lined with restaurants and beauteous architecture. So, aft your ride, wherefore not wrapper up the nighttime with meal to bask 1 of the charming restaurants?

Date: Sept. 6

Location: Paseo de Montejo, Meridá

Cost: Free, if you person a bike 

Aktun Chen adventure

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My favourite spot successful the Riviera Maya, this spot is amazing. Being debased season, Aktun Chen is offering bully discounts connected everything, including ziplining, underground stream snorkeling, swimming successful the cenote, and the champion of all, the underground cave walk. I’ve done it, I loved it, and it’s 1 of the astir astonishing experiences of my life. Voted 3rd connected National Geographic’s “Top Underground Walks of the World.” Plus, there’s a zoo and wildlife country to explore.

Date: Any time successful September

Location: Aktun Chen Eco Park, adjacent Akumal.

Cost: 15% disconnected idiosyncratic activities, oregon 20% disconnected packages 

Independence Day connected Isla Mujeres

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Under the stars successful the Mexican Caribbean is simply a beauteous spot to observe Mexico’s Independence Day. Join the amusive of thoroughfare fairs, astonishing nutrient and accepted dance, and bask the land nighttime for El Grito and the consequent fireworks display. The Mexican Navy marches with pridefulness and the land is decorated with the green, achromatic and reddish colors of the Mexican Flag.

Date: Sept. 15-16 

Location: Isla Mujeres municipality square

Cost: Free

Bravest Race obstacle course

(Xplor Park)

This 1 is thing I privation to do, and it’s amusive for the full family. It features a 6-kilometer people with implicit 50 obstacles successful Xplor’s The Bravest Race: The Origin. Go done jungle, caves and trails crafted to trial your spot and endurance. They accidental it’s successful 4 stages to correspond the cardinal points and cycles of the universe, truthful I’m reasoning it’s similar “Survivor” meets “The Amazing Race.” Am I crazy, oregon does that dependable similar large fun?

Date: Sept. 21

Location: Xplor Park, 4 miles southbound of Playa del Carmen

Cost: 1,700 pesos

Ironman 70.3 Cozumel

My favourite lawsuit of the twelvemonth (along with the afloat Ironman successful November). Come articulation maine connected my beauteous land to cheer connected the Ironman. Cozumel is an Athlete’s Choice Award-winning destination for this fractional Ironman. Entrants travel from each implicit the satellite to complete. Swim successful the lukewarm Caribbean waters, rhythm past beauteous jungle and chaotic beaches, and tally connected flat, wide roads. You tin spot the lawsuit schedule here. And if you spot maine around, beryllium definite to halt and accidental hola. 

Date: Sept. 21

Location: Cozumel Island, Riviera Maya

Cost: Free for spectators, US $456.50 introduction interest for competitors 

Autumn equinox

(Bel Woodhouse)

I’ve visited Chichen Itza a fewer times and privation to spell again. Why? Because equinoxes and solstices are astonishing cycles successful the Mayan calendar. The autumn equinox occurs erstwhile shorter days make a shadiness phenomenon. The illusion of a serpent descending the Pyramid of Kukulkan. This astronomical spectacle symbolizes the feathered serpent god’s question to the underworld. It’s an astonishing reflection of the Maya’s precocious knowing of astronomy.

Date: Sept. 22

Location: Chichen Itzá

Cost: Adults 648 pesos, children (ages 3-12) 100 pesos 

Marc Antony successful Mérida

(Uticket)

I’m a immense fan, and I tin perceive a cardinal different women shriek successful delight and swoon astatine this news. Latino popular prima Marc Antony, the top-selling salsa creator of each time, volition beryllium bringing the Yucatán to its knees with his romanticist songs successful September. A four-time Grammy Award, eight-time Latin Grammy Award, and twenty-nine-time Lo Nuestro Awards winner, helium has sold much than 12 cardinal albums worldwide. So, beryllium speedy to grab your ticket. I person a feeling they’ll beryllium going fast.

Date:  Sept. 25

Location: Parque de Beisbol Kukulcán, Merida

Cost: Prices alteration depending connected seats

Mexico Correspondent for International Living, Bel is an experienced writer, author, lensman and videographer with 500+ articles published some successful people and crossed integer platforms. Living successful the Mexican Caribbean for implicit 7 years present she’s successful emotion with Mexico and has nary plans to spell anyplace anytime soon.