DK Travel : Cancún and the Yucatán : Shopping

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Aguilar Bike Hire, Valladolid

From his ramshackle shop, former baseball player Antonio “Negro” Aguilar provides information, sells sports goods, and rents out cheap rooms and bikes at low rates.
Arte Maya, Ticul

Ticul produces huge quantities of ceramics. This family-run store stands out for the owners’ skills and careful use of traditional and even ancient Mayan techniques.
Avenida Hidalgo, Isla Mujeres Town

Isla’s main street, and its main drag for leisurely browsing. Here and in parallel Av. Juárez small shops offer painted wooden birds, original T-shirts and local shell and coral jewelry.
Bazar de Artesanías Craft Market, Mérida

This semi-official handicrafts market is packed with stalls selling every kind of Yucatecan and Mexican craft work, some of it excellent, some rather tatty.
Calle 39, Valladolid

Valladolid’s main street has everything a country town should: shoe stores, electrical shops, barbers, and stalls selling fruit and herbal medicines.
Casa de Artesanías Tukulná, Campeche

Campeche’s state handicrafts store has ceramics, embroidery, basketwork, and many other top quality items that are beautifully displayed.
Casa de Artesanías, Mérida

The Yucatán state handicrafts store has high-quality local work, with many beautiful, usable things especially in textiles, basketware, and wood.
Coral Negro, Cancún

Not a plush modern mall but a rambling jewelry and handicrafts bazaar, a few steps from the Forum. In among its many stalls you can find fine traditional craftwork, as well as a lot of junk.
El Sombrero Popular, Mérida

A little hat shop opposite the market, with a very friendly owner who will show you piles of handmade panamas in all sorts of styles and sizes.
Flamingo Tours, Río Lagartos

The best local boatmen’s cooperative has a kiosk on the waterfront, just left of where the Tizimín road runs out. They work with the nature reserve and have good boats and experienced guides (see Río Lagartos).