Day 1, Arrival to San Francisco de Campeche

MAYA NATURE welcomes you to the Yucatán Peninsula at Campeche city airport (CPE), upon arrival one of our drivers will transfer you to your hotel. Dinner on your own.

Day 2, Historic Fortified City of Campeche, Chicanna

Enjoy breakfast at your hotel, then your guide will meet you for a walking tour of the historical center of San Francisco de Campeche, one of UNESCO World Heritage sites, and a ride at the city Tram. The only walled city in Mexico, Campeche is a well-preserved example of a harbor town. Its beautifully restored historical center represents a model of Baroque colonial city planning and more than 1,000 buildings of historical value have survived from the Spanish colonial period of the 17th and 18th centuries. After that we will be back at your hotel for lunch and check-out, for transfer to Chicanna Ecovillage Resort for overnight. Lunch and dinner on your own. B.

Day 3, Calakmul, Balamku, Chicanna

Very early in the morning we will depart provided with a box breakfast, bound to the Calakmul archaeological site, also a World Heritage site. Set deep in the tropical forest of the Tierras Bajas, a Biosphere Reserve, this important Mayan archaeological site played a key role for more than twelve centuries. Calakmul’s outstanding examples of Mayan art provide a testament to the city’s advanced political and spiritual development. After this visit we will procede to Balamku, a site where we find a spectacular modeling stucco façade with policromy, dated at the end of the Early Classic period among 550 to 650 A.D. This frieze is considered one of the most beautiful artistic expressions in the Mayan low lands.Then we will return to Chicanna Ecovillage for lunch and overnight. Lunch and dinner on your own. B.

Day 4, Birdwatching, Uxmal

Before breakfast, we will have the opportunity of a bird watching tour on the Chicanna Ecovillage grounds. Among others we could watch Turquise Moot Moot, Yucatan Oriol, Keel-billed Toucan, Yucatan Jay, Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Yellow-lored Parrot and many others. After breakfast we will start our trip to Uxmal, where we´ll have lunch. At this archaeological site, capital of the Xiu family (you still may meet one of their descendants), rivals to the Itza family, we find among its vestiges of the post-classic period the Governor’s Palace, that many believe is the most  beautiful building in the Maya world. After visiting this outstanding place, also a World Heritage site, we´ll check in at our hotel for overnight. At 8:00 p.m. you will have the opportunity to watch the wonderful light and sound show at the archaeological site. Lunch and dinner on your own. B.

Day 5, Celestun, Chichen Itza, Coba

After breakfast, we will depart toward Celestun, where we will take a boat ride in order to watch sea birds, mainly flamingos, but also cormorants, egrets, herons, etc. Afterwards we will go to a  restaurant located at an old hacienda “Hacienda Teya” for a  lunch consisting of tipical yucatecan dishes, we continue visiting the very well known site of Chichén Itzá whose wonderfull vestiges are witnesses of the power of the Itza family, who dominated the north of the Yucatan Peninsula from the tenth century A.D., also a World Heritage site. Afterwards, we will continue our trip to Coba, for overnight. Lunch and dinner on your own. B.

Day 6, Coba, Punta Laguna, Tulum

After breakfast, we´ll start our way to the archaeological site of Coba, that flourished between the VI and X centuries A. D. and that reached an estimated population of 60,000 inhabitants. Among its vestiges is notable the highest Mayan structure of the Peninsulas, called Nohoch Mul, high 42 mt., we´ll have lunch at a nearby restaurant. Afterwards we´ll go to Punta Laguna reknowned as a Spider Monkey sanctuary, and after this visit we´ll continue to Tulum for check in at our hotel for overnight. Lunch and dinner on your own. B.

Day 7, Sian Kaan, Tulum

After breakfast at your hotel, we will depart toward the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage site. In the language of the Mayans Sian Ka’an means “Origin of the Sky”. This 1.3 million acre reserve is home to forests, wetlands, a coral reef system and more than two dozen Mayan archaeological sites. There we will visit the Muyil archaeological site, and walking trough a “sac-beh” (Mayan word for white path) and the Canan-Ha wood path we will reach Muyil Lagoon, where we will take a boat for a ride trough this and the Chunyaxche lagoons to reach a canal a man made canal system, where we will float pushed by the gentle stream toward the sea, after that we will get on the boat again for the ride back toward our departing point. On our way back to Tulum we will stop at colorfull and lesser known “cenote” (subterranean river) where a delicious lunch will be waiting for us. After a dive at the warm “cenote” waters we will return at your hotel. Dinner on your own. B, L.

Day 8, Departure.

After breakfast, we will pick you up at your hotel for transfer to Cancun International Airport (CUN) in order to board your flight back home. B.

End of our services.

• Price includes:

• Price does not include:

Accommodantions
Ground Transportation in a/c  vehicles
Guides services.
Entrances tickets at archaeological sites and museums.
Boat when indicated.
Meals as indicated on the itinerary
Lodging, meals and transportation  taxes
Gratuities for bellboys and waiters

Beverages
Laundry and personal expenses
Phone calls
Gratuities for guide and drivers
Any other service nonmentioned in the itinerary
Any flight nonmentioned