Acapulco or Cancun, that is the question
Acapulco
When I arrived in Acapulco I felt like a stowaway on the boat from 'Vacation at Sea' . The city has an old touch, a decadent and dignified air, like in a perpetual eulogy to the roaring 60s . But Acapulco is still Mexico , and beyond the beaches, the visitor is reunited with the history of the country. The Fort of San Diego, which can still be visited, became the most important defense of the Spanish colony in the Atlantic.
And many years later, when the cannons rusted, the city suffered the friendly attack of a selective tourism. Diego Rivera left here his signature in the form of murals and the very tarzan -Johnny Weissmuller- ended his days looking at the cliffs. the stars of Hollywood or European royalty made the summers of Acapulco. Gary Cooper, Frank Sinatra or Salvador Dalí They have already seen the divers of the Quebrada jump, a tradition of flying men who have been risking their lives for 60 years.
The beaches of Acapulco they preserve their splendor and the cruise ships continue to dock daily in the port . However, you have to go a little further, 36 kilometers, to the Coyuca Bar to enjoy a tropical landscape where you can taste the local fish, while around you the pelicans make aerial filigrees, which never go out of style.
cancun
Cancún unceremoniously looks out onto the dolphin beach, blessed with radioactive blue colored water . And that blue exerts a hypnotic attraction for tourism. Hotel complexes line the beach piling up stars, luxury, open bar and a sleepless night.
Cancun is fashionable and has become the Mexico's top tourist destination , although it is less Mexican than Acapulco, more universal, more designed for total disconnection from tequila and jet skiing. The pools rub against the sea and everything is easy, leisure does not have to be sought, it comes to you . Young people sunbathe during the day and go to bars at night, where Shakira is more successful than Chavela Vargas, more Enrique Iglesias than her father.
Also, Cancun is the prelude to the Riviera Maya and all hotels include some route to the pyramids of Quintana Roo or the state of Yucatan. There are more beaches to get lost. The coast is full of blue wonders, underwater visits and the peace that only that place can achieve, magnet for dreams, called Caribe.