Reception at the Cancun airport. Transfer to the hotel.
2nd day - Cancun / Chichen Itza / Merida
In the morning, depart to visit the largest archaeological zone of the Maya world. With more than 300 hectares, there’s ample to see at Chichen Itza: the Temple of Kukulkan, the Mayan Ball Game, the Sacred Cenote, the Temple of the Tigers and the Temple of the Warriors are the main attractions which are found between numerous smaller ruins. Continue to Merida, also know as “The White City”. Stroll down the city’s center.
3rd day - Merida / Uxmal / Merida
Visit the archaeological zone of Uxmal, one of the most extraordinary testimonies of the Mayan civilization. See the great Cuadrilátero de las Monjas (Quadrilateral of the Nuns), the Palace of the Governor and the Templo del Adivino (Temple of the Soothsayer). See the light and sound show.
4th. Day - Merida / Celestun / Merida
Full day excursion to Celestun, a fishing village is situated on a spit of land almost entirely separated from the mainland. Is home to another of Yucatan's Peninsula famous nature reserves with their flocks of flamingos, herons, anthigas, ibises, pelicans, frigate birds, estuaries and sea. This is one of the few bleeding areas in the northern hemisphere of other birds and waterflow breed in the wetlands and mangrove forest. Some 250 of the 509 bird species in the Yucatan Peninsula can be spied here. Enjoy lunch at the beach in the Gulf of Mexico.
Return to Merida.
5th. Day - Merida / Coba
Leave for Coba. Along the journey, pass indigenous Mayan towns where it is common see women dressed in huipiles (traditional tunics embroidered with vibrant colors). Visit the grottos of Balacanche that were transformed into an underground sanctuary during the time of the Toltecs. Here, witness the numerous offerings to the rain god, Chac, that are still performed today.
Arrival in Coba which is located in the heart of the tropical forest. Coba is an old Mayan center that owes its existence to five small lakes, a rarity in this region where the rain water filters through the calcareous earth.
6th. Day - Coba / Playa del Carmen
Visit of the archaeological zone of Coba. It was explored in 1926 and again in 1974 over a surface area of 70 km2 -- not only to study its buildings, but also its flora and fauna. Coba, being located in the center of a network of straight roads that are 9 meters wide, was built between 600 and 800 A.D. The roads were constructed to connect the diverse ceremonial centers and towns of the zone and extend all the way up to several towns in the northern part of the Yucatan, some of them of very great distances.
Continue to Playa del Carmen, a small city on the bank of the Caribbean sea with beautiful white beaches of powdered coral sand. The sea is a paradise for divers and other aquatic sports lovers because of its wealth of marine life and coral reefs.
7th. Day - Cancun
Transfer to the airport.