Chris Robinson, the popular Canadian radio host, specializing in travel and tourism, who has traveled to over 150 countries during his life, selected the natural park Xel-Há, from Cancun-Riviera Maya, to his world’s top ten destinations list.
The natural park Xel-Ha shows up in Robinson’s “Top Ten Fun Places”, with Orlando, Florida; Branson, Missouri; Las Vegas, Nevada; Queenstown, New Zealand; Legoland, Denmark; Santa Claus Trip, Lapland; Club Med Sandpiper, Florida; Rotorua, New Zealand; and Banff, Alberta, Canada.
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Xel-Ha is a natural park located on the Riviera Maya, to 76 miles from Cancun. It is the number one place to snorkel and to watch marine life as it is considered the largest aquarium in the world. That is why Xel-Ha is a place you must not forget to visit when you be here in the most important destiny in Mexico.
A Chacah tree is a species belonging to the Burseraceae Family. Mayans use its crust due to its healing properties to relieve and cure burns and rashes caused by the Chechen, as well as dysentery, fever, and the measles. Chacahs may reach a height of up to 30 m, and in Quintana Roo they are scattered all over the jungle. This species is often used as a living fence.
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The Natural Wonder is celebrating 15 sustainable years, an extraordinary accomplishment which brings everyone together. This splendorous collection of inlets, lagoons, cenotes and caves that feed from the sea, and merge together with fresh spring waters and underground rivers currents has turn this fascinating place into the world’s most beautiful natural aquarium, offering a constant invitation to knowledge, appreciation, and valuation of a very unique place.
In Xel-Ha, love for nature is professed. The operation of this tourist attraction, now one of the most visited sites in Cancun-Riviera Maya, is based in a concept of sustainability which stands out for its significant contribution to environmental conservation.
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XEL-HA, RIVIERA MAYA, NOVEMBER 8, 2009.- Ricardo García Riverol from the Mexican state of Yucatan (1 hour, 2 minutes, 13 seconds) and Fabiola Corona native from Jalisco (1 hour, 6 minutes, 37 seconds) were the winners that triumphantly finished in first place the Sprint Triathlon Xel-Ha 2009 in the separate categories for men and women of this truly exciting and moving multi-sport journey, with a quota of 648 triathletes and hundreds of friends and families who turned the challenge into the most successful competition.
Despite unfavourable and adverse weather conditions such as the threat of the tropical storm “Ida”, the Sprint Triathlon Xel-Ha was carried out without any inconveniences starting at 7 o’clock in the morning, the starting signal was in charge of Miguel Quintana Pali, General Director of Xel-Ha, exact time when triathletes gathered at the floating bridge located at the inlet of Xel-Ha Park, to begin the 750 meters swimming race.
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More than 350 athletes form Sweden, Belgium, Spain, United States and Mexico have been registered to participate in the Sprint Triathlon Xel-Ha which will take place on November the 8th in Cancun-Riviera Maya, stated Organizer Committee, so the quota of 500 participants is almost run out three weeks before the race.
Registered participants come from Yucatán, Campeche, Distrito Federal, Morelos, Colima, Jalisco and Quintana Roo, in Mexico; Halland, Sweden, West Vlaanderen, Belgium; Catalonias, Spain; as well as Illinois and California, United States.
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