Recommended experience for kids:
Yes
Recommended experience for pets:
No
It is an inclusive experience:
No
Places close to the experience where you can spend the night:
Acanceh
Days open to the public:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Schedules in which you can enjoy the experience:
08:00 - 22:00
Contact number to make reservations:
URLS of the sites where reservations can be made:
Important experience activities:
- ATV tour
- Handicrafts exhibition
- Visit to archeological sites
- Visit to a former Hacienda
Approximate price:
$ MXN
Months in which you can enjoy the experience:
All year long
It consists of an ATV tour along the main tourist attractions in the municipality like: La Pirámide, a Mayan building located at the center of the municipality, which is 36 ft high and has stairs to access and admire the Puuc style stucco masks, as well as some other foundations located there. Another building you will visit is Palacio de los Estucos, which is few blocks away from the city’s downtown, and where you can see a frieze painted with several colors and with engravements. Another stop on the tour is municipality’s downtown, where you can see the Nativity’s Church, a colonial construction from the 16th century devoted to Our Lady of Guadalupe, being one of the longest festivities in the state; you will also visit the park where you can find a monument to the pyramid at the center, as well as a deer which gives the name to the municipality.
As part of the tour, you will have the opportunity to visit local artisans devoted to embroidering in cross stitch and weaving hammocks, so that you can learn about their work. The tour continues through some paths which anciently were truck roads to connect to other municipalities and which took you to henequen plantations.
In this tour you can experience adrenaline and also be in contact with nature, as you will have the opportunity to watch the flora, birds, and also the fauna, as well as some cornfields, henequen plantations and sascaberas (Mayan artificial caves). Finally, you can taste traditional food prepared by community’s people.
Regiones
Actividades principales
Distance from Mérida to experience:
approximately
Duration of experience:
6 hours approximately
Suggested for:
Families, friends and couples