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

February 20 and 21 - CEA Celebrates its 3rd Annual CEA Festival Save Our Seas. Join in the two days of fun activities, Silent Auction and the Gala Dinner Show with Live Auction.

February 24 - Academy Awards Party at Lolha. And new nightly entertainment at Lolha.

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.

Coba Road - the road has now been widened (from 6 to 12 meters) all the way to the Coba rotary from Tulum.

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. This month a regular visitor to Akumal and Playa Caribe condo owner, Myrna Sparks suggests you check out Selva Maya. Please be sure to submit your great finds.

A very exciting, new and refreshingly un-commercialized soft adventure eco-tour SELVAMAYA, has recently been added to the many great eco-excursions that we all love in the Riviera Maya. The tour begins in Akumal and you will go the short distance on the jungle road to Rancho Santa Cruz either on horseback, van or bicycle.

The two names Muyil and Chunyaxche are used interchangeably for this ancient place. It is named after the two large inland lagoons that separate the site from the Caribbean Sea. These existing buildings, from the Mayapan period, were built between 1250 and 1550 AD.

Environmental Report

Mangroves are wetland forests growing in coastal areas. They are essential for marine and coastal ecosystem interaction. Four mangrove species are found in the Yucatán Peninsula: Red, White, Black and Buttonwood. Once again, mangrove protection is being questioned in Mexico.
by Centro Ecologico Akumal

Real Estate News

For some Americans and Canadians, Mexico has been home for more than 20 years. These are the lucky few who got “in” before Mexico became mainstream. For all the others, myself included, we are only now looking at our neighbor south of the border, wondering if we could do it too. Last January, having read the New York Times article on Merida, I gathered some friends to discuss a purchase in the white city.

Timeshare Resales in Riviera Maya Many frequent vacationers are looking for an economical and long-term solution to their accommodation dilemma.

Travel Concepts

If schedules and precision are what you are looking for take your group to Disney Land. But if you're looking for something a lot more meaningful, consider the Riviera Maya with a personal touch. Get your group involved. Let students meet students - like a soccer game between local Akumal school kids and a Spanish class I brought down from Pennsylvania. Let adults volunteer for short duration projects with local non-profits. You get the idea. The sights are great, but the people are even better.

February 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.

Now in its third full year of operation, the Otoch Paal Montessori Community Center (meaning “Children’s House” in Mayan) offers a different model for early childhood education to Akumal’s families with young children.

Starting in February, Hekab Be Library will begin a Membership Drive to raise necessary funding and awareness about what the library provides to the Akumal community. Hekab Be has been a wonderful part of Akumal for years. Read about its a growth and visit from Santa.

Read the report on Akumal Pueblo's Telesecundaria JOSÉ VASCONCELOS and Biblioteca FRIDA KHALO

Hotel Akumal Caribe has teamed up with CEA, Akumal’s Ecological Association, to establish the Pablo Bush Romero Scholarship Fund for kids with limited means and good grades, to finish their Middle School education (secundaria).

And read the cover to Pablo Bush Romero's book Under the Waters of Mexico.

Last fall, construction began on the Puerto Aventuras Childcare Center (Guaderia y Ludoteca), which will serve over 100 children from 45 days to 3 years old and will provide an after-school program for an additional 40 youngsters between the ages of 6 and 12 years.

Dozens of students in Puerto Aventuras have been given the opportunity to attend high school thanks to P.A.A.E., an education program that has supported the community since 2001.

As part of a new Puerto Aventuras Three Kings Day tradition, some 100 food and gift bags were distributed in January to particularly needy families in the pueblo this holiday season.

Recently a new informational website has been launched: Mahahual After Dean. Its primary objective is to provide tourists with reliable information about the current status of Mahahual and Costa Maya.