Up & Down the Coast

Welcome to the new monthly newsletter from Sac-Be.com, your source for news, maps and travel information for the Riviera Maya and Costa Maya. After some turbulence, we're looking forward to getting back to our regular monthly email schedule. If have a news item, an event you'd like to promote, an article of interest or a comment to make please email us at info@sac-be.com. Enjoy!

Upcoming Events

Coming in November - Water Aerobics Certification Workshops in Paradise. If you currently teach Water Aerobics and need recertification, or you have thought about becoming and instructor and need to be certified, this is the perfect trip for you.

This summer - Just Imagine Vacations together with Hotel Akumal Caribe have created the perfect Eco-tourist, Multi-cultural, Adventurous Summer Camp for Tweens and Parents. This summer camp is designed to entertain, educate and inspire young people, as well as build character and expand cultural experiences. At the same time create, it should be an enjoyable vacation for young people and their parents.

Road to Punta Allen - we drove from Zama to the bridge in Sian Ka'an. They were working on the road for the first mile or so inside Sian Ka'an, otherwise it was smooth to the bridge. We heard that they've also been working on the road coming north from Punta Allen.

Did You Know?

We are starting a new section, this is for new, old and locals – it has been mentioned many times that people want to know about new places to go, whether it is an all-inclusive with a new day spa, a new restaurant, or a new tour. Please be sure to submit your great finds.

Located on Xpu-Ha's secluded beach, this restaurant is part of a small boutique resort offering 4 rooms. The dining experience is elegant and the food is delightful. How can you go wrong in such a lovely setting? With colorful streamers attached to palapas on the beach, the setting is as pleasing to the eyes as the food is to your palate.

Perhaps this is your third or fourth trip to the Riviera Maya and you want to escape the turquoise waves crashing outside your hotel room and explore the hidden treasures that lie further inland. Follow author, Mari Pintkowski, as you meander down the Coba Road and investigate a couple of new cenotes that have recently opened.

Try A Little Español - While you're in Mexico, it might be fun to try a little Spanish. The people you speak with will be really appreciative of your effort and it might even enhance your Mexican experience!

Travel Concepts

Our supporters and advertisers tell us that September on the Riviera Maya is slow. To counter this fact, many plan to offer special pricing and other inducements for you to consider visiting in September. Better yet, they're going to advertise these special savings on this page. So now you can create your own Super Saver September Get-Away.

It has been said that visitors leave their brains at the border. Those are the extreme cases when childishness takes over from common sense. Examples would be when tourists rent an open air jeep and don't bother to strap their seat belts. Or we have all seen those crazy Americans who drink too much tequila and try to dance or, worse, speak Spanish. Oh, and there are the radically extreme cases where someone has parasailed right into the side of a resort on Cancun's beach. But I am not talking about the extreme cases.

March 2008  

For many years now education has been of growing importance to the visitors, locals and businesses of Akumal. Sac-Be.com recognizes the hard work and contributions by each month updating people on what is going on with educational groups and organizations.

Carlos, my friend and silly guy beloved by Akumal children, has decided to move on after 8 years of dedicated service to the library. I'll miss him, and I know that many of you will miss him as well. Carlos was not just an employee, but part of the heart and soul of the library community.

This year CEA was able to raise just over $10,000 USD from its Silent Auction, Gala Dinner and Online Auction, held in February. These funds are dedicated to implementing its Akumal Bay Management Program, on employing a strategy to improve water quality in the Akumal region, and on beginning this year’s turtle nesting season with everything in place to make sure as many hatchlings as possible safely make their way to the sea, among other goals for 2008.

This is a mistake that we seem to make over and over again. Not that the outcome is bad, but who are we trying to fool by saying we will never do certain things; such as, never get another puppy – or never bring another dog back from Mexico.

The First Annual Puerto Aventuras Community Foundation Gala Dinner to benefit the Puerto Aventuras Childcare Center was a huge success! More than 80 residents and visitors came together at the Omni Hotel on Sunday, March 10, to support this most important project that is being completed in the pueblo.