Hotels in Playa del Carmen
Restaurants and Nightlife - Playa del
Carmen
Playa del Carmen is a
gathering point for peoples from the four corners of the Earth who want to swap
adventure stories and meet people from different cultures.
The destination
seduces painters, musicians, dancer and poets wanting to go beyond the
conventional and enter a fantastic world where the most daring ideas flow freely
and creativity is inspired by the purest of all muses, Nature.
All along fifth avenue – the main street open only to pedestrian traffic – you
will find everything from modern shopping centers with a Caribbean flair to
handicraft shops with wares from both Mexico and exotic places in the Far East,
not to mention exclusive boutiques with sensual, eclectic clothing.
Visitors come here to taste the culinary delights available in place like air
conditioned cave with a floor show, by candlelight under a beach palapa, on a
terrace or in the garden of one of the restaurants that vibrate to the sounds of
a marimba band, romantic blues or reggae.
The world’s cuisines have come to Playa: contemporary Mayan, Mexican,
Argentinean, Italian, Cuban and vegetarian, just to name a few. Just to give you
an example Il Baretto on 5th Avenue and 26 street has the best
coffees and pasta in town.
In many
avant-garde restaurants, the chef give free rein to their imaginations and fuse
ancient recipes with exotic ingredients to create a gamut of new flavors – one
of the hallmarks of Playa del Carmen.
This corner of the Riviera Maya is renowned for its fascinating nightlife.
The
streets light up and fill with life and movement as people come and go from a
place to another for a taste of different atmospheres and sounds. Every
imaginable musical genre can be find in Playa; the restaurants, bars and discos
– all within steps of each other – cover the gamut of beats from Caribbean drums
to Afro Antilles zones, passing by Hip Hop and Techno on the way.
Beach bars invite you to dance barefoot under the moonlight, with the ocean in
the backdrop reflecting the lights of thousands of stars and far off Cozumel
glowing on the horizon.
Every one gets carried away with the energy of a party
that lasts till dawn.
A visit to Playa del Carmen is a must during your stay on the Mexican Caribbean.
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