Xcalak Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Early morning, the air on deck is filled with the freshness of a spring, cool breezes waft from the Caribbean as our grand ship prepares to dock at the only pier in this area.  The pier is only 5 years old.  Two of the area's sole incomes, prior to the cruise ships, were fishing and the harvesting of chicle from the gum trees.  Nearly untainted by modern development and commercialism, Xcalak on the Mayan coast, has stringent ecological laws governing i…