No. 037 Mayan Bath at Telchac

An exfoliation experience with mineralized mud, it is done in a specific area inside the pink lagoon. An expert local guide will take you in a gondola boat. It includes the visit to the freshwater spring, exploring mangrove tunnels that allow you to watch birds while in contact with nature.

A natural space considered as one of the best live museums of honey, a tour with history, learnings, and fun that you will find on each of the Mayan huts. A distinct experience, where you will learn about the importance of bees, you will enjoy activities that will take you to learn about the world of bees in an interactive way.

To fly strapped by a harness is an extreme feeling you have to experience, practice rappel, and ride the famous swing with specialized and safe equipment, this adventure is available in Tekax. You can also camp and go into a grotto.

In Zazil Tunich nature created art works and today the world can admire them. In a path of 656 ft and 65 ft underground you will find impressive formations of stalactites and stalagmites that will guide you to the deepest part of Xibalba (Mayan underworld). In the last part you will find a cenote of sacred shallow waters, just after passing by the Mayan Kiss, a very narrow pathway formed by the whimsical inclination of a giant stalagmite and the cave of the Alux (grotto guardian), which is located exactly in the platform of the Lords of Xibalba.

This tour makes us live an experience in the Mayan Underworld of tranquility, mysticism and wonder because of nature’s creation and the reason why Mayan mythology considered these places an altar to those superior energies that have been hosted here for centuries.

This park also has 5 bungalows with all amenities you can imagine in the middle of the jungle. It is recommended to accommodate in couples to best enjoy the environment, the serenity, and calm of the place. Two new cenotes, near Zazil Tunich are open to public, so you have plenty of attractions options and activities to do in a day. Do not forget to try the delicious cuisine of “cocina de mamá” (mom’s kitchen) in this tourist complex.

At El Cuyo, a hidden paradise you can practice kayak in UMA San Manuel, touring a flooded jungle up to arriving to the blue lagoon.

Walk around the main streets of El Cuyo in a golf cart, visit the main avenue, the lighthouse, the murals, the fishing port, and the ideal spot to see the sunset.

Learn and practice kite on El Cuyo beaches, one of the most beautiful in Yucatán, with favorable winds for this activity.

A culinary night experience at El Chile Gordo is marvelous, try Mexican flavors in an audacious fusion with a neat decoration, a pleasant explanation on each course, and an enjoyable talk with the hosts, a gastronomic jewel in this gorgeous place of Yucatán.

In your visit to the eastern coast of Yucatán, make a stop at the Kikil Cenote Tourist look-out, in Tizimín municipality, where you can enjoy a relaxing bath in its freshwater spring. This heavenly place, surrounded by huge trees, pathways, palapas, and birds chirping is a shelter in the middle of grasslands, characteristic of Tizimín livestock zone. Its strategic location, near the City of Kings or Tizimín, makes of it an ideal destination for visitors going to places like Río Lagartos and San Felipe, destinations of nature and beaches in this tourist region.

In this small and picturesque village named Kikil, you can also see the roots of a huge poplar tree, characteristic of this region, as well as the partly dilapidated church that at nights is used as an ideal stage for social events. The restaurant has an à la carte menu of fish, seafood, beef, pork, and chicken, which will complement this pleasant experience in this marvelous natural site.

With a nice tourist boardwalk recently renovates, Dzilam de Bravo rises as a place worthy to be visited because, apart from being a port, it is also an ecological reserve. Nowadays, it offers tours in ecological boats with life jackets and local guides to visit a cenote in the reserve, a freshwater spring inside the sea and the beach area with white sand, which are almost exclusive for visitors.

The moment you arrive to the main entrance of Zamná Hacienda, you will get involved in the warm environment of a historic heritage that takes you to its times of glory. You will be surrounded by its huge sacred kapok trees, and you can walk around the gardens until arriving to the main building of the property, where hosts will be ready to tell you some stories and histories of the hacienda while you refresh with a delicious Yaxkukul horchata.

Once the tour around the house is over, you will get to the bullring palapa, where you can ride a horse, after signing a responsibility waiver. You will be trained with the basic rules to perform this activity. When you are ready, you will have a demonstration of how to ride a horse, guided by a horse rider, and then everyone will be assigned a horse.

You will practice for 15 minutes in the bullring so that you can then follow the tour along the henequen fields and the sheep livestock areas. In these two stops you will learn in a general way about the “green gold” sowing and the sheep breeding, you can even carry a little lamb. To finish, back in the bullring, you will enjoy a delicious Yucatecan snack at the palapa, and you can rest while enjoying nature.

One of the first adventure tourism attractions developed in Tekax municipality is the Chocantes Grotto, the place is 5 minutes away from the city’s historic center and is on the first hills neighboring the tourist city. In this place, full of small natural hills in the land, there is a new world to be discovered underground with natural formations of karst rock.

Such whimsical shapes of nature form one of the most beautiful grottoes with its stalactite and stalagmite formations, which is why this grotto is also known as crystals grotto, where numerous adventure and scientific expeditions have taken place, and have been documented mostly by Yucatecan and French specialists.

It has an easy access, inside you can see traces of the grotto use in pre-Columbian times, as ancient Maya people have left evidence like clay benches, pot scraps, and other wonders waiting for the most adventurous tourists.

In the surface of the grotto, you can feel the adrenaline while you go through the zip-line, equipped with a helmet and a harness to safeguard your life; you can also practice rappel at Gruta del Toro (Bull grotto). An ideal place for the souvenir picture, with a view to the City of Tekax is at the wooden tourist look-out with panoramic view.

This experience is complete with food, previous reservation, prepared by a traditional cook with a hundred percent Yucatecan menu.

It includes the use of common facilities, such as parking lot, restrooms, hydration, dressing rooms, harness, lamps, gloves, adventure equipment in general.

Suytun de Mendoza Cenote is a sinkhole of shallow waters, so if do not know how to swim, you will not miss the opportunity to take a relaxing bath in its blue crystalline waters. In the afternoon, this cenote offers a unique natural show, as the sunlight goes through the hole the cenote has above, lighting the center of the platform.

Hacienda Chukum Cenote is an adventure destination near Valladolid, it has a cenote of 131.2 ft called Chukum-Ha, the park has a zip-line inside and rappel from the vault, the restaurant has buffet service and a souvenir store of traditional Mexican handcrafts.

Xcanahaltún Cenote is 295.2 ft wide and has different depths, walls with rock formations, and a small platform in the center, where you can rest. It has kayaks and life jackets that you can rent to go to every corner of this marvelous place.

Palomitas and Agua Dulce Cenotes, they have stalactites, crystalline and deep waters. It is something you have to experience! Both cenotes are cave-type, so the access to both of them is through stairs; and if you like new experiences, Agua Dulce cenote offers rappel, and it has a restaurant.

Learn and enjoy Kite at El Cuyo beaches, one of the most beautiful in Yucatán, with favorable winds for this adventure activity, facilities, and renowned instructors.

Start the day visiting Uxmal Archeological Site, declared Human Heritage by UNESCO since 1996. This wondrous Mayan City is the most representative place of Puuc architecture, with façades decorated with masks of the God Chaac, fretwork, panels with hieroglyphs and crests. Well-preserved buildings, like the Pyramid of the Magician, The Nunnery, and the Temple of Pigeons will leave you astonished by its delicate Mayan architecture.