Passports & Visas
Getting To Yucatan
Guide Books & Online Travel Info
Travel Agencies & Insurance
Climate & Your Health
Getting Around Mérida
Money & Banking
Telephones
Electricity & Equipment
Preparation & Clothing
Personal Items
Equipment & Materials
Gifts for Homestay Families

Airlines & Airports
What to do: Airport Arrival Tactics
Bus Travel & Stations in Yucatán

 


Welcome to the OSEA Travel Guide!

The information you can find on these pages combines over twenty years of experience traveling to Yucatán and internet resources that I have found to be useful. If you have any suggestions on how to improve, update or correct the information on these pages or use links to other useful sites, please let us know.

Thanks! Ka'ah xi'ik tech utsi' ma'alo'ob!
Quetzil



OSEA Online Library (access requires password)
Information for participants on Insurance, Course Preparation, overnighting in Cancun, and access to Maya language materials, Release Forms, Readings

Planning Your Travel From Here
Getting To Yucatán
Selecting an Airline & Airport
Travel Books / Guide Books
Passports & Visas

Planning What To Bring
Weather, Clothing, Laundry
Personal Items
Equipment & Materials
Gifts to Bring

What To Do On Arrival
Airport Arriival Tactics: Visa, Customs, Passport
Ground Travel & Bus Stations
Getting To/Around Mérida
Getting To/Around Cancun
Getting To/Around Pisté

Logistics of Living in Yucatán
Money, ATMs, Banking
Electricity & Equipment
Telephony
Health, Heat & Wellness
Internet

Other Information & Travel Tools
Time Zones in the USA
Time Zones for select cities of Mexico
Weather in Merida, via weather channel
Weather in Cancun, via weather channel
US State Department Foreign Per Diem Rates for México

Currency converters:
(1) Oanda FX
(2) Xe Currency
(3) GoCurrency.com


OSEA Statement on the Question of Safety in Yucatán and México
in relation to reports of drug war related violence in US news (February 2009)