Progreso: newest Mexican Yucatan port is the gateway to the best Mayan sites.(Only A Day In ...) From: Cruise Travel | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Hunn, Bea; Hunn, Max | COPYRIGHT 2004 World Publishing, Co. (Illinois). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

You may be taken aback while standing on the upper deck of your cruise ship the first time you pull in to Progreso, newest tourist port on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The dock is fine, but where is Progreso?

Then you soon learn that the village is barely visible, five miles away on the mainland. But before you have nightmares of huge taxi fares, you thankfully discover the port has a complimentary shuttle service--40-passenger buses operate between the newly developing c...