No. 361 Ifly Panoramic Flights

Fly on iFly aircrafts and watch from above the most emblematic tourist destinations in Yucatán. Discover Celestún, Izamal, and Uxmal; you will enjoy impressive and unforgettable panoramic views. A new way of visiting Yucatán, you will love it, fly over visual corridors, and see places like La Isla mall, the Country Club, and Paseo Montejo avenue, with a unique perspective you can only appreciate with tranquility in our last generation aircrafts imported from Slovenia and the United States, driven by professional pilots with training in Mexico and abroad. Start your vacation or business trip with an eagle´s view Leonardo Da Vinci would have loved to have. The experience will allow you to learn about the daily operations of an aeronautic company, 100% Yucatecan, but with a global vision.

A tour in the city of Valladolid starting at the emblematic Calzada de los Frailes. While you walk along the avenue, you will hear the history and pilgrimage of friars. The event is featured by a group of men wearing brown robes as Franciscan monks, holding a censer in their hands to highlight the promenade. During the walk along the avenue, they will stop to pray and make different movements to continue their pilgrimage. This mystical tour in Valladolid takes place under the scent of incense and candles. People can interact and participate with candles in their hands to accompany them during the walk, which ends at the impressive San Bernardino de Siena Convent, in Sisal neighborhood. Among the convent’s arches, the Friars take some time so that you can take pictures and then they scatter so that the video mapping starts, which is projected for free in English and in Spanish. The performance is for free, and you must not miss it on your next visit to the Magic Town of Valladolid.

Tekax, located in the south of Yucatán, is a thriving tourist destination which every day offers more activities, led by a tourist guide or by simply walking you will learn a new tourist cultural attraction known as “El Callejón”.

During this incredible tour, you will visit “El Callejón”, where you can appreciate a vibrant collection of 10 murals from diverse painting styles, which form part of this amazing outdoors museum, and are a must-do cultural activity. While you walk, you can appreciate and take pictures of the murals, each one shows history, festivities and customs from the city, for example, the famous composer “Ricardo Palmerín Pavía”, the mysterious and interesting legend of “Waay kot”, the celebration of “San Diego de Alcalá” with its bustle and attractiveness, as well as the flora and fauna from the region represented with jaguars, birds, and trees like the Sacred Kapok Tree.

Undoubtedly, this experience will make you travel through time, and will make your imagination fly, as well as it will wake your senses up by means of art and colors, to make of your visit to the Sultana de la Sierra, something unique and unforgettable.

Ek Balam community allows you to discover the richness of Mayan communities, through active participation in several daily activities like hammock weaving, hand-made tortillas elaboration, and embroidering. After visiting Unajil Ek Balam tourist look-out, which translates as “house of the black jaguar”, you will go to the community to walk around the streets of this marvelous village and interact at three different homes, where workshops take place.

There is a cooperative in this small village located by the archeological site, formed by cornfield farmers who saw in tourism the opportunity of enhancing their identity and improving their quality of life. At their community tour, you can participate in sewing machine embroidering, hand-made tortillas elaboration, and hammock weaving workshops while you walk around the community with a local guide.

The cooperative also offers the opportunity of spending a quiet night in their traditional huts and taste delicious dishes at their dining area.

Do not miss the opportunity of learning and being part of the daily customs of an actual Mayan community, where apart from interacting with the people, you will learn at the workshops, you can learn about their houses, their courtyards, and the environment in which they live.

Alacranes Reef National Park is a set of small islands of coral origin, located 80.7 miles to the north of Progreso Port in Yucatán and which constitutes a protected natural area of importance in our country because it is the largest coral structure in the Gulf of Mexico, apart from being the only known and declared reef in the state of Yucatán.

It is formed by five isles: Isla Pérez, Isla Blanca or Chica, Isla Muertos or Desertora, Isla Pájaros, and Isla Desterrada. They are the largest coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico. Reefs have grounded ships who fell down due to storms during the conquest times, and they have been appointed as human heritage by the UN. In this reserve you can enjoy beautiful beaches, reefs, as well as you can practice fishing in their crystalline waters. There are more than 116 bird species registered, fish, and more than thirty-four species of corals, and also the wreckages make of this place, the perfect site for scuba diving, and taking spectacular pictures to make of your journey a life experience.