{"id":5784,"date":"2012-03-09T08:29:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/travel\/akumal"},"modified":"2012-03-09T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:05:41","slug":"akumal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=5784","title":{"rendered":"Akumal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours drive south of Cancun on an excellent highway are the ruins of Tulum a Mayan site that has been very well restored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120309-072501.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120309-072501.jpg?w=700\" alt=\"20120309-072501.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After our visit to Tulum we drove north a few miles to Akumal and had a sunset dinner at La Buena Vida. We had the best ceviche in memory sitting at a table right on the sand on beautiful Half Moon Bay. Life truly is good!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120309-072748.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120309-072748.jpg?w=700\" alt=\"20120309-072748.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My recommendation, if you are staying on the Mayan Riviera and have one day for tourism skip the snorkel parks. Go to Tulum and hire a guide for the history stuff and then head to the beach at Akumal for free swimming and snorkeling. Finally eat at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/akumalinfo.com\/la-buena-vida-restaurant-2\">La Buena Vida.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours drive south of Cancun on an excellent highway are the ruins of Tulum a Mayan site that has been very well restored. After our visit to Tulum we drove north a few miles to Akumal and had a sunset dinner at La Buena Vida. We had the best ceviche in memory sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[42,196],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-mexico","tag-recommend"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s99jGb-akumal","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}