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Cancun

Mexico · 13 quests

History

1 quest
El Rey, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
El Rey
Iguanas sun themselves beside Maya buildings

Nature

2 quests
Malecón Tajamar, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Malecón Tajamar
Mangroves push through the paved waterfront
Kabah Park, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Kabah Park
Coatis roam the paths beside tropical birds

Art

2 quests
El Ceviche, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
El Ceviche
Locals gave this huge sculpture a food name
Las Palapas, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Las Palapas
Its name comes from the roofs over the square

Food

3 quests
Ceviche, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Ceviche
Lime makes raw fish turn firm
Cochinita Pibil, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Cochinita Pibil
Its red color comes from a seed not chili
Tikin Xic, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Tikin Xic
Sour orange meets achiote on the grill

Beach

1 quest
Dolphins Beach, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Dolphins Beach
A giant sign stands where sand meets sea

Sport

1 quest
Andrés Quintana Roo, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Andrés Quintana Roo
Atlante won a league title in its opening year

Party

3 quests
Mandala, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Mandala
The club has no walls on its sides
Monkey Business, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Monkey Business
Locals and visitors share the same lively bar
Coco Bongo, Cancun🇲🇽 Cancun
Coco Bongo
Film scenes appear live above the dance floor

Mexico

Photo quests in Cancun

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Cancun holds 13 quests across every category the catalogue keeps, with no single one of them defining the place: Food and Party are level at three quests each.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Las Palapas. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other twelve are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Party is the group where the hour decides everything: the same address is a landmark at midnight and an empty street at six. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Cancun quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Cancun the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Cancun

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Cancun

How many photo quests are there in Cancun?
13, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), Party (3) and Nature (2). Among them: El Rey, Malecón Tajamar and El Ceviche.
What is there to do in Cancun beyond the obvious?
One of the 13 quests in Cancun is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Cancun holds one at tier 1, three at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Las Palapas, in Art.
Can you do all the Cancun quests on one trip?
Not as one walk. The outermost of the 13 is 63 km from the middle of the Cancun list, which makes this a region rather than a neighbourhood: several are a day out in their own right and are worth planning as such rather than fitted in.
Which Cancun quests can you do for free?
12 of the 13 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 13 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Cancun means one quest: Las Palapas.
How do I prove I visited a place in Cancun?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Cancun is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from El Rey fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Cancun sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.