Scuba Class at Cazuml

The Turquoise Riviera

Along with nearby Isla Mujeres Cancun enjoys the unique advantage of having no rainy season.

Arizona's Valley of the Sun enjoys a similar climatic and meteorological situation fast becoming one of the major resort areas in the United States. The world famous Marriott's Camelback Inn has proven so popular and successful that the Marriott Corporation will build a 300 unit resort-condominium hotel complex patterned closely after their Camelback Inn resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The resort will feature low-rise villas of Mexican Colonial architectural design nestled among the beach dunes in such a way that the natural terrain and extensive wild flora of the area will be preserved and enhanced.

The 200-acre Marriott site will be the largest development in Cancun offering every resort amenity including a large tennis complex and marina facility. Bordered by two large, blue lagoons, it will face Cancun's magnificent turquoise sea.

One of the most fascinating and unique elements of the resort will be a restored ancient Mayan Prayer Temple. The first of several recently discovered in Cancun, the temple overlooks the ocean on Cancun's highest point. The National Institute of Archaeology, presently beginning restoration of these small edifices, believe they were used by the Mayans not only for their prayer rituals but as lookout stations against possible enemy invasion from the sea.

Construction of the Marriott resort is slated to begin soon with opening in 1977.