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Tours and transfers from Mérida with Mary Tours
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Day trip · Quintana Roo
Bacalar from Mérida
Bacalar from Mérida in one day with Mary Tours, recommended by NearVisual. Groups of 4+ can ask about the discount; Mary confirms the date and inclusions.
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Day trip · Caribbean
Isla Mujeres from Mérida
Isla Mujeres from Mérida in one day with Mary Tours, recommended by NearVisual. Groups of 4+ can ask about the discount; Mary confirms the date and inclusions.
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Day trip · Archaeology and cenotes
Tulum and Casa Tortuga
Tulum and the Casa Tortuga cenotes from Mérida with Mary Tours, recommended by NearVisual. Groups of 4+ can ask about the discount; Mary confirms the date.
Day trip · Izamal, Chichén Itzá and Valladolid, Yucatán
Chichén Itzá, Izamal and Valladolid
This is the full day. We set off early for Izamal, where the Franciscan convent and the yellow streets are walked at an easy pace. Then Chichén Itzá, with a guide, so you understand what you are looking at instead of only photographing it. Regional lunch in Kaua at midday, and as soon as the heat sets in, the Selva Maya cenote. We close in Valladolid, with its original wrought-iron park railings and the church of San Servacio.
Day trip · Homún, Yucatán
The four cenotes of Santa Bárbara
The point of Santa Bárbara is that the four cenotes are genuinely different from each other, so you learn in one morning what a “closed” or “semi-open” cenote actually is. You move between them by bicycle or cart inside the grounds, which is half the fun. Lunch at the end: regional dishes with tortillas straight off the comal. Departure is at ten, so no early alarm.
Day trip · Celestún, Yucatán
Celestún and the pink flamingos
Celestún is a biosphere reserve: nearly sixty thousand hectares of mangrove, estuary and coast. The boat threads through the channels to wherever the flock is, which depending on the season may be dozens or thousands of flamingos. On the way you pass the freshwater spring and take the Maya bath out on the sandbar. Then lunch facing the sea and the rest of the afternoon on the beach.
Day trip · Izamal and Homún, Yucatán
Izamal and two cenotes
Izamal is the only town in Yucatán painted entirely yellow, and under that yellow there are Maya foundations: the 16th-century Franciscan convent is built on a pre-Hispanic platform. You see the Baroque altarpiece of five bays and three levels, and there is free time to walk. In the afternoon, two Homún cenotes to wash off the heat of the walk, with lunch between them.
Day trip · Chuburná, Chelem and Progreso, Yucatán
North Coast and Isla Columpios
Isla Columpios is not an island: it is sandbanks and mangrove off Chuburná Puerto, where the sea forms natural pools half a meter deep. There are swings and hammocks planted right in the water, and no hotel or big restaurant, which is exactly the point. You can only get there by boat. Then the Chuburná dunes and a free afternoon in Progreso, with its seven-kilometer pier.
Day trip · Las Coloradas and Río Lagartos, Yucatán
Las Coloradas and Río Lagartos
The pink at Las Coloradas is not a filter: it is concentrated salt and microorganisms pigmenting the water, and the intensity shifts with the sun. You cannot swim there — it is a working salt operation inside a protected area — but you walk it from outside, which is where the photos are anyway. Then Cancunito beach, almost empty, and the boat ride through the estuary, which is where the flamingos, herons and the occasional crocodile turn up.
Day trip · Izamal and Chichén Itzá, Yucatán
Maya Train, Chichén Itzá and Izamal
The first part of the day is on the Maya Train, Mérida to Izamal: forty minutes that are worth it for the ride alone. Once in Izamal, the yellow town with its convent and Baroque altarpiece. From there by van to Chichén Itzá with a guided walk, buffet lunch in Kaua and the Selva Maya cenote to finish. The train ticket is included in the price.
Day trip · Abalá, Yucatán
Hacienda Mucuyché
Mucuyché was one of the most prosperous haciendas in Yucatán during the henequen era, and it still has its arches, machinery and stone walls. What sets it apart is that its two cenotes are connected by a channel: to get from Carlota to Azul Maya you either swim across or take a stone path, with rock walls on either side. Entry to the hacienda and the cenotes is included.
Day trip · Izamal and Homún, Yucatán
Izamal and the Santa Bárbara cenotes
This is the two classics combined: Izamal in the morning, while you can still cross the atrium without the stone burning, and Santa Bárbara in the afternoon, with the full five hours inside the grounds. There you move between cenotes by bicycle or cart, and there are four different kinds: cave, semi-open with a shaft of light, and open surrounded by vegetation. Entrances and lunch included.
Day trip · Sisal, Yucatán
Sisal: kayak, flamingos and beach
Sisal was the port henequen left the country through, and what remains of that is the old houses and the feel of a town that never became a hotel strip. The morning is spent kayaking the wetlands: paddling through mangrove, watching birds — pink flamingos among them — and taking a dip in a freshwater spring. Then the beach until four: white sand, turquoise water and very few people.
Transfer · Chuburná, Chelem and Progreso, Yucatán
Transfer to Isla Columpios and Progreso
This is not a tour, it is the day’s transport. We leave Mérida at 8:30 and make the three coastal stops: Isla Columpios, the Chuburná dunes and Puerto Progreso. You get off at each one for as long as you like, with no guide rushing you and no schedule to keep; the driver stays with the van and waits. The boat to Isla Columpios, lunch and whatever you fancy on the boardwalk are paid separately, straight to whoever sells it.
Transfer · Uxmal, Yaxcopoil and Peba, Yucatán
Transfer to Uxmal and Yaxcopoil
We set off at 8:30 heading south. Four stops in the day: the Uxmal archaeological site, the henequen-era Yaxcopoil hacienda, the Peba cenote and the Chocolate Museum. You go into each one on your own and with your own ticket; the driver drops you at the door and stays there until you come out. No guide, no lunch included and no group rushing you: the day is yours to build.
Transfer · Celestún, Yucatán
Transfer to Celestún
We leave at nine for the west coast and are back by seven. The driver drops you in Celestún and stays with the van until it is time to return: the boat ride through the estuary, lunch and whatever you decide to do on the beach are arranged there, directly and at your own pace. No guide and no group to keep up with.
Transfer · Izamal, Chihuán, Yokdzonot and Chichén Itzá, Yucatán
Transfer to Chichén Itzá
We leave at 8:30 and are back by seven. Four stops: the yellow town of Izamal, the underground cenote at Chihuán, the open cenote at Yokdzonot and Chichén Itzá. You go into each one on your own, with your own ticket and for as long as you like; the driver parks and waits. If you would rather have someone tell you what you are looking at, that is the tour, not the transfer.
Transfer · Izamal and Homún, Yucatán
Transfer to Izamal and Santa Bárbara
We leave at 8:30 and are back by five. Izamal first, to walk the convent and the yellow streets for as long as you like, then the four Santa Bárbara cenotes. Entry to the cenote park is paid there, and so is lunch. The driver waits at each stop; nobody rushes you.
Transfer · Río Lagartos and Las Coloradas, Yucatán
Transfer to Las Coloradas and Río Lagartos
An eleven-hour day, eight to seven. Four stops along the east coast: Río Lagartos, the pink lagoons of Las Coloradas, Cancunito and free time on the beach. The boat ride through the estuary and entry to Las Coloradas are arranged and paid there; we provide the van, the driver and the waiting.
Transfer · Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo
Transfer to Isla Mujeres
A seventeen-hour day: we leave at six in the morning and are back in Mérida at eleven at night. The van takes you to the pier and waits there; you buy the ferry to the island yourselves, along with the water tour, lunch and the museum entrance. On the island you move around on your own, and at the agreed time we pick you up at the same pier.
Transfer · Holbox, Quintana Roo
Transfer to Holbox
The longest day in the catalog: we leave at five in the morning and are back in Mérida at eleven at night. The van takes you to Chiquilá, where the road ends, and waits there; you buy the ferry to Holbox at the ticket office. No cars are allowed on the island, so everything moves by golf cart or on foot.
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