Welcome to the OSEA Travel Guide!

The information you can find on these pages combines over twenty years of experience traveling to Yucatan 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'alob!
Quetzil

Starting January 12, 2010, the OSEA staff began revising, updating and improving our travel information. Some links and pages may not be available during this process. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope that you can nonetheless find these pages useful for your planning.

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 & Electrical Adaptors
Telephony: Cell Phones, OSEA Phone Numbers, Communications
Health, Heat & Wellness
Internet

Travel Tools & Information from Non-OSEA websites
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 and (3) GoCurrency.com