No. 061 Xkekén Eco Tourist Park

Just 3.1 miles from the Magic Town of Valladolid, you can find Xkekén Park, where you can enjoy a refreshing bath and plunge into the millenary waters of the two Mayan cenotes located in the park. Xkekén cenote has stalagmites and at noon, a natural beam of light entering from the vault makes it look majestic. At Samulá cenote, you will witness an impressive view and crystalline waters.

Dzitnup community’s handcraftsmen offer their products like traditional clothing, souvenirs, and swimming accessories.

Xuux Peek is a word in Maya language that means “wasp dog or smart dog”. It is an eco-tourist park near Yalcobá community, pertaining to Valladolid municipality. With total respect to the nature surrounding this tourist complex, they offer the following services for visitors:

A 3-star hotel with ten well-equipped rooms, parking lot, air conditioning, suitable for all the family.

A 984.2 ft pathway for hiking or biking. In this area, visitors will have direct contact with nature, they can visit two beautiful dry cenotes or rejolladas, where they can perform activities such as meditation.

Xuux Peek, is a closed-type cenote with illumination, wooden stairs to facilitate access, rock formations in its walls, and a shallow water mirror, ideal to enjoy water with all family. If you carefully observe the walls, you can find evidence of the pre-Hispanic use of these sacred natural places.

Glamping Complex, it is an area with six equipped cabins, each one with two twin beds, restroom, air-conditioning, and shared areas for gathering.

This eco-tourist complex offers all services and activities for the whole family, during the time you decide to stay enjoying this unique natural experience.

It includes the use of common facilities like parking lot, front desk, restrooms, showers, life jackets, and services required by visitors.

Visit the only Mayan island inside the sea: Cerritos Island, a place used for commerce. Today, you can admire from the boat the almost circular structure of stone in the coastline of the island, submerged carved stones form a path to the mangroves and an immensity of marine birds inhabit the small island. This experience is enriched with the boat tour, visiting the aguada-type Kambulnah cenote, and a beach area to rest in San Felipe.

Located in the heart of Mérida’s historic downtown, “Donia Way House” let you go all over Yucatan through spaces designed to show the most important cultural elements in the Peninsula. It is a store of traditions, their objective is the dissemination of the Yucatecan culture to preserve and share their customs and traditions by means of the art, handcrafts, design, and humor.

Donia Way is a family project developed from a character created in 2012 by the architect Javier Covo and his wife, the anthropologist Ileana Reyes. Today, it is considered as Yucatán’s Tourist Ambassador. Through social media, Donia Way and her dog Camote share funny cartoons about daily life in Yucatán, comprising magical places, language, gastronomy, traditions like Hanal Pixán, and tours along archeological sites in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Yucatán is known for its huge kapok trees, and the colors of its flamboyant trees, but today, there is a sunflower garden in Tetiz municipality. Involved in the love story of a young marriage, the Suut K’iin Lool Garden is founded. It means “sunflower” and this company currently has more than 8,000 sunflower plants sowed in a surface that uses organic fertilizer and controlled irrigation in order to achieve a proper growth in the garden. Starting as a present for the beloved wife, it became a tourist site worthy to visit, either for photographic purposes or to buy this beautiful flower.

This experience is unique during some seasons of the year, which is when sunflowers bloom and are on their peak, enjoy walking through sunflowers so that you can learn about the production system, the 8 different varieties of this flower, based in their colors and shapes, all these in a natural site, specially designed for a tourist visit.

This garden is an ideal place for photo shooting and videos, previous reservation; every weekend there is a local Entrepreneur Fair with handcrafts offer, such as soaps, honey, shoes, bread, desserts and even milkshakes and juices. To complement the experience, there is a guitar-shaped swimming pool available for the whole family.

Recreate the fantastic history of Mucuyché Hacienda through guided tours in which you will bring back one of the most prosperous Haciendas in Yucatán during the henequen golden era; you will also swim in the majestic “Carlota” and “Azul Maya” cenotes.

The most ancient register of Mucuyché Hacienda goes back to the 17^th Century, owned for a long time by the Peón family. Among the activities conducted there were livestock, agriculture, and henequen plantations. Currently, the hacienda is almost as it was originally, and there are few restorations done to it.

Carlota cenote will welcome you with its crystalline waters, so that you can refresh after the tour to the hacienda. This cenote was named after the Mexican Empress Carlota, who in 1865 in a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula, and heading to Campeche, she arrived to Mucuyché, and was the first person in taking a bath in its waters.

At the cave-type “Azul Maya” cenote, you will discover why ancient Maya people considered these places as sacred. Local cuisine of the restaurant at Mucuyché Hacienda and Cenote completes the experience at the Mayab in Yucatán.

It includes transportation in a van with air-conditioning, life jackets, use of facilities, and swimming.

It is recommended to make a reservation by phone call.

The tourist destination named Tekax has more than 200 grottoes that have been discovered by local adventure tourist guides. In these grottoes there is evidence of pre-historic human activity, and rock evolution can be verified along time. Some of these grottoes are visited by tourists nowadays, there are several options for all the family, including activities for the most adventurous young people who want to try the limits of their extreme exploration.

Las Sartenejas Eco Tourist Park is a complex with all services around four grottoes that can be visited, grottoes are named: Murciélagos (bats), Trincheras (trenches), El Platanal (banana plantation), and the internationally famous and known as Ix’mait (which means: bottomless). In these grottoes you can practice rappel descent and climbing of 98.4 ft, inside you will find stalactite and stalagmite formations, water mirrors, passageways, pre-Hispanic evidence, remains of ancient Mayan pots, and fauna from inside these cavities.

One of the attractions of this place is food, with a traditional cook’s seasoning and with hand-made tortillas, you will taste regional dishes like pollo pibil, just to mention an example in the traditional kitchen with palm roof; in the surroundings of the front desk, there are some pathways for hiking and an impressive natural look-out to admire the extent of the Yucatecan jungle.

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

Just 5 minutes away from the Magic Town of Valladolid, you can find a new tourist destination based in the Mayan culture and developed around a natural attraction like a cenote. In this place you can experience 13 activities related to Mayan culture, immersed in the Yucatecan jungle and with the best existing facilities.

This tourist park is full of experiences, where you can learn about Mayan culture, swim in a unique cenote and making the most of nature. Chichikan Cenote offers a guided, dynamic, and fun tour, in which you will taste Mayan chocolate, honey, hand-made tortillas, and participate in a ball game, among other activities, just to finish in a unique cenote.

A special hallmark of this experience is the learning of three phrases in Maya language, you will be able to see the clothing of ancient Maya people, their devotion in rituals and the beautiful Mayan houses built out of wood with palm roofs, and with bioclimatic designs. This park integrates the magical spirit of Yucatán. Many visitors confirm that this place is for connecting with nature, live new experiences, recharge energy, and enjoy the company of friends and family.

Come and discover, observe, and take perfect pictures in one of the natural protected areas best preserved and with the greatest number of birds in Yucatán, we are speaking about the Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, in a specific area called El Cuyo.

With almost 400 bird species, some of them emblematic, like the American Flamingo, Yucatán Vireo, Black-throated Bobwhite, Mexican Sheartail, Rose-throated Tanager, among others, and a great diversity of habitats, make of this place the ideal location for nature lovers and bird watching.

During the tour, you will admire the flora and fauna, the history and culture of the area, as well as the gastronomic variety you can find in rural communities. Besides this specific activity there are hotels of excellent quality, restaurants specialized in fish and seafood, some other nature-related activities, and of course, one of the most beautiful Yucatecan white-sanded beaches with turquoise waters, an ideal place for bird watchers and tourists in general.

Enjoy the Magic Town of Valladolid, its market, its cenotes, and its Mayan communities, while riding a bike, guided by an expert, and equipped with a helmet and a reflective vest. The first stop in the tour is the traditional market, where you can buy local fruit, handcrafts, and Valladolid’s traditional food. Ride along the Monks Avenue, take a picture in the tourist human-size letters, and make a stop at the San Bernardino de Siena Convent (Sisal neighborhood), then go to Oxman cenote and take a plunge, once inside, you can jump from a platform holding a Tarzan-like rope. Continue riding to get to the most famous cenotes in Valladolid: X’kekén and Samulá, with gorgeous crystalline waters.

An important part of the tour is the interaction with local inhabitants at the village, which is why, in Dzitnup, you will visit a Mayan house, where you will see how they lived in the past. Besides, you can see how they make hand-made tortillas, and will teach you how to make yours, which you can eat at lunch. In another Mayan house, you will have the opportunity to see how a hammock is made. On the way back, you will visit a small village called Chichimilá, where the guide will explain about the Caste War of Yucatán which started in 1874. This tourist experience is highly fulfilling, as it lets you learn about the most amazing thing of the culture and nature of Valladolid Magic Town, while you ride at your own pace.

Ven a vivir la experiencia de escuchar a una de las mejores Orquestas Sinfónicas del País, la de Yucatán, quien ha tenido destacada presencia en el Palacio de Bellas Artes, el Auditorio Nacional, Teatro Juárez de Guanajuato, Teatro Bicentenario de León y la Zona Arqueológica de Chichén Itzá. Y no hay nada mejor que disfrutar de su actuación en un recinto con historia, presencia, arquitectura y emblemático de nuestro estado, el centenario teatro Peón Contreras.

De enero a junio y de septiembre a diciembre son las temporadas que puedes escuchar a la Orquesta Sinfónica de Yucatán , y donde el público tendrá la oportunidad de escuchar a solistas de talla nacional e internacional y a prestigiados directores huéspedes. Además podrás disfrutar temporadas de ópera y ballet bajo la batuta de su director titular, el maestro Juan Carlos Lomónaco, quien hoy en día es sin duda uno de los directores mas importantes de nuestro país. 

Tour around channels interconnected with cenotes and springs riding a gondola boat propelled by rowers. You will enter the heart of mangroves to observe its special flora, fauna, and have a refreshing plunge in the cenote.