No. 085 Izamal in ATV

The adventure tour to go along Izamal, the first Yucatán’s Magic Town! Wear a helmet, ride an ATV, accelerate and in a responsible way go on a thrilling trip through the wonderful streets of the Magic Town of Izamal. Assisted by a local expert guide, enjoy the yellow and white colors of a picturesque and elegant city, a vivid and cheerful town, ideal to go around its calm streets and to admire its big manors, squares, and corners.

Do not miss this experience! Venture to drive through a magic town that stopped the time. Learn and be a witness of the majestic Franciscan Convent which has the largest atrium in Latin America, and the second largest in the world; the Mayan pyramids, the colonial buildings, and the artisan ateliers, which make of the ancient saint city of Izamal, a true open museum, being considered as the most important cultural destination in the Mayan World.

The tour will let you visit and walk around pyramids, enjoy the marvelous overview you will have from the Kinich Kakmó pyramid look-out, with a 360° panoramic view. Do not miss the opportunity to meet one of the great masters in folk art, Don Esteban, who makes fine arts out of henequen hawthorn combined with silver. This experience ends with the exquisite regional dishes at Kinich restaurant, renowned for its environment and Yucatecan cuisine.

It includes the use of an ATV, safety equipment (helmet and goggles), entrances for various places into the city, and visit points, guide in Spanish, and taxes.

San Agustín is a small Mayan community located in the south of the Yucatán State, away from the city and with almost no communications signal, which is why the local cooperative offers you the opportunity of disconnecting and instead enjoy the serenity of the place.

One of the activities you can perform is the bike tour in a 5.5-mile pathway where you will visit an apiary, and accompanied by a local guide, you will learn about the natural resources, flora, and fauna from the region. On your way back, you can tour around the community and observe some economic activities performed by the inhabitants, such as the production of charcoal, wooden furniture, handcrafts carved in wood, hammocks, vegetables, and medicinal plants harvest. To finish, you will be able to explore an archeological site located within the community, where you can appreciate different characteristics that tell part of the Maya people history and their way of life.

As part of the experience, you will taste delicious dishes and Yucatecan snacks prepared with local crops and with a special seasoning, served at the cooperative’s restaurant. Besides, if you want, you can enjoy a quiet evening under the moonlight, as the cooperative offers accommodation in a camping area. The area has restrooms and showers.

Ek Balam, a Mayan city, walled to survive wars, has ritual buildings, a ball game field, as well as an impressive and flamboyant Acropolis, where you are allowed to climb up until getting very close to the tomb of the last king Ukit kan lek tok’ guarded by “winged” beings.

San Ignacio Cenote is an eco-tourist complex located just 20 minutes from the peripheral road in Mérida city heading to Campeche freeway, at Chocholá municipality, near Calcehtok grottoes, Oxkintok archeological site, the Mayan city of Uxmal and the Puuc Route.

The most eye-catching experience is to snorkel at night, available from 6pm to 10 pm, a tour in the water at this dome provides another perspective and completely different emotions.

Apart from being one of the cenotes nearest to the city of Mérida, it is also one of the safest, as it is shallow, and the vault is illuminated. The water is crystalline and turquoise blue, gorgeous. It is not too big, but this makes it special, because it provides a sensation of complete safety, moreover, it is really comfortable, as temperature is always 75.2°F.

San Ignacio Cenote is located inside an eco-tourist park that has a restaurant, a hotel, and a swimming pool area. It complies with all sanitary measures, it has lots of vegetation, and outdoors areas.

Kokomo, is a special place created so that visitors could escape from their routines and benefit from the beach without worrying for anything. It is a beach club located less than an hour away from the city of Mérida, where you will enjoy warm and transparent waters that, together with its coastal dunes, are a true jewel of the Yucatán Riviera.

The experience starts the moment you decide going to Kokomo, where, apart from enjoying the beach, you can perform adventure activities like kayak and paddle board, tan on a sunbed, taste food and beverages, and swim in the pool, an unforgettable experience for the family and friends. All this adds up to the high-quality facilities, excellent front-desk service, and wide parking lot.

Additionally, Kokomo Beach Club has four rooms equipped with internet, minibar, air conditioning, smart TV, as well as one penthouse with two rooms. The service is complemented with the Tintorera restaurant, specialized in land & sea food, with a wide and unique top gastronomic offer for demanding palates.

Nights of Legends is a combination of a tour and a play with a historic and tourist approach, which intends to provide participants with a fun option, in which knowledge is the central part of the show.

It has 7 scenes, located in different historical moments of the regional history. Actors are terrific, and there is a lot of intrigue and humor from start to end.

Participants walk through Mérida’s Historic Downtown, guided by a storyteller who tells chronicles, stories, and legends that happened downtown during colonial times. This storyteller wears clothes from those times and along the tour mentions important historic moments including dates and characters who participated in the foundation of the city, during the 16^th, 17^th, and 18^th centuries.

It includes access to all places visited during the tour. It is recommended to make a reservation by phone call or e-mail.

Located just one hour from Mérida, Yaax Tekit Cooperative invites you to an approach to daily life in the community to learn about the most representative activities in the region. The tour starts with the visit to an artisan bakery atelier with a stone and firewood oven, where you can participate in the process of preparing some sweet breads like polvorón, tuti, conchas or tortugas.

After that, visit the Mayan solar, where you can learn about the agro-ecological production systems. Learn about Melipona bees’ production, taste different honey varieties, and finish this first part of the tour with a Yucatecan meal. After lunch, learn about the main activity in the place: Guayaberas manufacturing. There, you can see the process to make a traditional piece of clothing, from the moment it is outlined, until it is finally packed. Then, you will surely want to take a souvenir from your visit to Tekit; accompanied by the local guide, explore some guayabera shops, where it is possible to buy traditional clothing of high quality, directly from local producers.

And, if you want, you can stay and spend the night at “Quinta Marías”, a place with three houses connected through pathways surrounded by vegetation, a playground, an area with benches, where you can spend a pleasant time under the trees and with access to a shared swimming pool. Next morning, after breakfast, you will have the opportunity to participate in more activities the cooperative has for you.

The “Vaquería” makes us remember the ancient “village festivities” of the 17^th Century, which took place in early livestock rooms, where the cattle shoeing celebration was framed by folk dances and festivities summoned by the landowner. One of the most expected dances was precisely the “Vaquería”, where cowboys and their wifes participated. This tradition is recreated each Monday with a program of traditional dances like “La Angaripola” or the huachapeo over wooden boxes or “almudes”. Live music, in charge of the Jaranera Orchestra of the Mérida Town Hall, creates a special festive atmosphere.

Located half an hour from Mérida city, you will find Chinkilá, a small village that outstands for offering adventure activities like zip-lining, camping, bike tours through pathways of the Mayan jungle, all this in the surroundings of a gorgeous, enclosed cenote called Kampepen.

Let yourself be pampered by the guides, who are Mayan women trained to make you fly in the challenging adventure zip-line.

A new experience available in the Magic Town of Sisal, scuba diving in the sea, available only during certain seasons of the year, with certified instructors and nature guides; natural places like Madagascar reefs or visiting a shipwreck at sea bottom.

When plunging, you will find a true subaquatic marine paradise with the sea bottom beauty, a vast variety of fish, shellfish, including marine turtles and suddenly, a shipwreck of a British ancient vapor boat, which according to archeological research, it was propelled by water vapor and sold slaves to the recently conquered Yucatán Peninsula. Explore incredible places like the dutch warship (1722), La Unión (1861), a Jesus statue, the sunken lighthouse (17^th century), and more. The shallow Waters and its proximity make of this tour, the ideal one for families with kids older than 8 years, non-scuba divers can dive without tanks, swim, or simply relax and enjoy the day at the sea.

Guides will tell you the history of this ship, and while you are in the activity, they will point at you the most important features of it, with the sun lighting perfectly all the ship, and being a shallow area, you can observe with detail the sea bottom, the best part is that in Yucatán most of the time is sunny, so you will not have to worry for this aspect.

To finish this activity, and to recharge energy, you can enjoy a fresh ceviche and a delicious coconut, which you can enjoy while going back to the shelter port.

It includes tank, regulator, vest, certified guide, vessel.

It is recommended to wear swimming suit, comfortable clothing, and make a previous reservation because the tour is seasonal.

Valladolid Dzitnup Tourist Attractions is a familiar company offering adventure tours, having as meeting point for tours the Dzitnup police station, located 10 minutes away from the Magic Town of Valladolid. In its facilities, there are ATV’s ready to start the adventure in one of the regions where Mayan culture is alive every moment, a culture reflected in the people, the food, and the magical cenotes located in this tourist area.

When starting the adventure of driving an ATV, you will feel the adrenaline of going through pathways of the Dzitnup Mayan jungle and enjoying the crystalline waters of underground cenotes like Xkeken and Samulá. Cross over dirt roads and typical vegetation of the region and explore the jungle up to the heart of Dzitnup village; during the adventure, you can take pictures and admire the beauty in the surroundings of the Mayan nature.

This adventure is ideal for challenge and adrenaline experience’s fans, the correct place is Dzitnup, an ideal place to live a nice adventure story with friends, couple, or family. An unforgettable experience to refresh, purify the soul in the crystalline waters of sacred Mayab cenotes, accompanied by an expert local guide.

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