Overview & Highlights
This holiday offers excellent value while introducing you to the country’s rich history and varied landscapes. Explore Mexico City, the Mayan temples of the Yucatán including Chichén Itzá and relax on a Caribbean beach.
This holiday is a great introduction to a huge country with an immense variety of cultural and physical landscapes. There are deserts, mountains and jungles magnificent ruined pre-Columbian pyramids and temples, graceful colonial towns and a timeless indigenous life in the villages and markets. We’ve picked out a few of the highlights to give you a good value, economical and rewarding holiday.
Mexico City is a huge metropolis, one of the largest cities in the world (you may like to extend your time here) and our guided tour takes you to a few of the top sights. Zip down to Mérida, an agreeable, Mayan and colonial city in the Yucatán Peninsula, from where you will visit a few of the better-known Mayan archaeological sites. Finally head for the Caribbean beach at Playa del Carmen on the Riviera Maya.
- Discover the modern and the ancient in Mexico City
- Explore colonial cities and Mayan ruins on the Yucatan peninsula
- Relax on the white sand beaches of the Caribbean
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Outline itinerary
Day 1
Arrive in Mexico City. Transfer to hotel in the historic centre.
Day 2
Full day guided excursion to historic colonial towns Cuernavaca and Taxco.
Day 3
Full day guided city tour and visit Teotihuacán pyramids.
Day 4
Fly to Mérida, transfer to hotel in the city centre.
Day 5
Full day excursion to Mayan ruins of Uxmal and Kabah.
Day 6
At leisure.
Day 7
Transfer to Chichén Itzá, guided tour of the archaeological site.
Day 8
Option to re-visit the ruins. By road to Caribbean Playa del Carmen on the Mayan Riviera.
Days 9-11
At leisure on the beach, optional activities..
Day 12
Transfer to Cancún airport for international flight home.
Things to do
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Visit Taxco, silver town

Visit Teotihuacan, pre-Columbian ruined city

Visit Uxmal ruined Mayan temple complex

Visit Chichen Itza, ruined Mayan city

Visit an underwater sculpture gallery

Go snorkelling on the Riviera Maya

Visit the Yucatan’s colonial haciendas and bathe in limestone cenotes

Walking tour of Mexico City
Accommodation
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Our expert's view

Hannah Waterhouse - Travel Expert
Hannah had an early introduction to Latin America when her family moved to Ecuador and she returned to study in Buenos Aires for a year before backpacking across the continent.
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