--- title: "13 Photo Quests in Cancun, Mexico — GetMap" description: "13 photo quests in Cancun, Mexico — led by food, party and art. Get there, take a photo within 200 m, and the check-in counts." source: https://getmap.travel/quests/city/mx/cancun --- # Cancun Mexico · 13 quests ## History 1 quest ![El Rey, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/History/ChIJ5we9cICCTo8RVLZdMmZdJ8M.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [El Rey](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ5we9cICCTo8RVLZdMmZdJ8M) Iguanas sun themselves beside Maya buildings ## Nature 2 quests ![Malecón Tajamar, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Nature/ChIJIWmRIVgpTI8RhHOqMsJyGVg.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Malecón Tajamar](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJIWmRIVgpTI8RhHOqMsJyGVg) Mangroves push through the paved waterfront ![Kabah Park, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Nature/ChIJK0oOU-wrTI8Rn3_4I1CBZao.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Kabah Park](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJK0oOU-wrTI8Rn3_4I1CBZao) Coatis roam the paths beside tropical birds ## Art 2 quests ![El Ceviche, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJ3YXoBP8rTI8RBQk5dyiDkZA.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [El Ceviche](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ3YXoBP8rTI8RBQk5dyiDkZA) Locals gave this huge sculpture a food name ![Las Palapas, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJq_CpNwcsTI8RucHSC99UCho.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Las Palapas](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJq_CpNwcsTI8RucHSC99UCho) Its name comes from the roofs over the square ## Food 3 quests ![Ceviche, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Food/ChIJBevULvArTI8RZ6jvZnQf0ec.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Ceviche](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJBevULvArTI8RZ6jvZnQf0ec) Lime makes raw fish turn firm ![Cochinita Pibil, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Food/ChIJc7MnUZ8oTI8RLz5t6PMh7HQ.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Cochinita Pibil](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJc7MnUZ8oTI8RLz5t6PMh7HQ) Its red color comes from a seed not chili ![Tikin Xic, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Food/ChIJleC0jZAsTI8RziUz09IVbf0.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Tikin Xic](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJleC0jZAsTI8RziUz09IVbf0) Sour orange meets achiote on the grill ## Beach 1 quest ![Dolphins Beach, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Beach/ChIJTc0cUYCCTo8R5IF6JQxSq-Q.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Dolphins Beach](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJTc0cUYCCTo8R5IF6JQxSq-Q) A giant sign stands where sand meets sea ## Sport 1 quest ![Andrés Quintana Roo, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Sport/ChIJbaXeNPIrTI8RfoMW9Sl2Tok.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Andrés Quintana Roo](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJbaXeNPIrTI8RfoMW9Sl2Tok) Atlante won a league title in its opening year ## Party 3 quests ![Mandala, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Party/ChIJS-WpoJgoTI8R0CERiPXCk7I.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Mandala](https://getmap.travel/quests/5HGawOg4ZYJfw3lnSIVn) The club has no walls on its sides ![Monkey Business, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Party/ChIJa7ElUp8oTI8R-T9EC38WtH4.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Monkey Business](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJa7ElUp8oTI8R-T9EC38WtH4) Locals and visitors share the same lively bar ![Coco Bongo, Cancun](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Party/ChIJaTPl_y9DTo8RTGqs-d576Vs.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇲🇽 Cancun [Coco Bongo](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJaTPl_y9DTo8RTGqs-d576Vs) 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. - [History quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/history) — one in Cancun - [Nature quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/nature) — two in Cancun - [Art quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/art) — two in Cancun - [Food quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/food) — three in Cancun - [Beach quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/beach) — one in Cancun - [Sport quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/sport) — one in Cancun - [Party quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/party) — three in Cancun --- 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. - [Las Palapas](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJq_CpNwcsTI8RucHSC99UCho) Its name comes from the roofs over the square Art --- 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. - [Havana 3 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/cu/havana) - [Orlando 21 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/orlando) - [San José 11 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/cr/san-jose) - [Mexico City 10 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/mx/mexico-city) - [Austin 12 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/austin) - [Dallas 13 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/dallas) --- 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. --- This is the Markdown rendering of https://getmap.travel/quests/city/mx/cancun. Site index for agents: https://getmap.travel/llms.txt