Can­cun, Mex­i­co (Melé Des­ti­na­tions) — Can­cun Car­ni­val start­ed off with a bang on Day 2 with a sweaty dancer­cise ses­sion led by Monk Dancers Michelle Bam­bai, Shaakir Grif­fith and Nan­di Yard.

Guests en­joyed bring­ing in their day with dance—boot­camp work­out style—to the sweet sounds of so­ca from up the isles.

Si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly, lovers of golf got the chance to par­tic­i­pate in Melé’s 1st ever Golf Tour­na­ment, 9-holes of fun along the Moon Palace Golf Course. And foot­ball lovers weren't left out as, at the same time, Melé’s 1st ever foot­ball com­pe­ti­tion kicked off, on the beach.

Lat­er, guests met in the mas­sive pool at Sun­rise, Moon Palace for Hy­drate Foam, a foam par­ty spon­sored by Carib Beer.  At night, the close to 3,000 at­ten­dees met at Dune Beach for Ig­nite: Glow, a neon-themed event, spon­sored by An­gos­tu­ra White Oak Rum. There, they got to see De­stra Gar­cia, Skin­ny Fab­u­lous, Lyrikal and King of the Dance­hall Bee­nie Man grace the stage, with a sur­prise ap­pear­ance by So­ca King Machel Mon­tano dur­ing Bee­nie's set. 

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About Melé

Melé is a col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Trinidad & To­ba­go Mas be­he­moth TRIBE Car­ni­val and So­ca Leg­end Machel Mon­tano.

The part­ner­ship be­gan as a ven­ture on the high seas—a lux­u­ry 5-day, 4-night cruise, sched­uled to set sail in 2021. With an over­whelm­ing­ly pos­i­tive re­sponse from so­ca and Car­ni­val lovers alike, just as the cruise was near­ing sold out sta­tus, the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic hit and al­tered plans.

The cruise was resched­uled for 2022. How­ev­er, af­ter care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion of glob­al per­spec­tives of COVID-19, the part­ners de­cid­ed to shift gears and in­stead, of­fer an on-land, all-in­clu­sive event—the 1st Melé Des­ti­na­tions—while the cruise in­dus­try makes the nec­es­sary ad­just­ments to de­ter­mine its new nor­mal.

The 1st Melé Des­ti­na­tion is Can­cun, Mex­i­co, to be host­ed at the Moon Palace Re­sort from April 28 to May 2nd, 2022.