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Value Mexico: Mayan Yucatan and coast

8 days from £1,300pp

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Overview & Highlights

This short break delivers the two big attractions of the Yucatán Peninsula in a nutshell: the impossibly grand, Mayan city Chichén Itzá  and the white-sand Caribbean beaches of the Mayan Riviera.

This holiday of just over a week takes you to the relatively flat, tropical Yucatán Peninsula in the sunny south east coast of the country. Inland, among the jungles, scrub and farmland, sitting alongside charming Spanish colonial towns and villages, is Chichén Itzá, the greatest archaeological achievement of the Mayan Empire.

You’ll explore the ruins on a guided tour. You’ll also discover Mérida, the Yucatán’s colonial capital infused with Mayan culture, and visit historic haciendas (country estates) before heading to the beach for a couple of days relaxing or indulging in water sports or the lively nightlife at family-friendly Playa del Carmen, where there’s a huge range of excursions on offer from visits to other Mayan sites to scuba-diving.

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  • Visit Chichén Itzá ruins – New Seven Wonders of the World
  • Full day excursion to historic haciendas and cenotes
  • Guided tour of Mérida

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Outline itinerary

Day 1

Arrive in Cancún, Mexico, transfer to hotel at the resort.

Day 2

Transfer to Chichén Itzá, ruined Mayan city.

Day 3

Re-visit Chichén Itzá, move on to Mérida.

Day 4

Day trip to visit historic Yucatán haciendas and swim in cenotes.

Day 5

Guided tour of Mérida.

Day 6

Transfer to Playa del Carmen on the Mayan Riviera.

Day 7

At leisure on the Caribbean coast.

Day 8

Transfer to Cancún airport for your international flight.
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Visit a historic henequen hacienda
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Visit Chichen Itza, ruined Mayan city
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Visit the Yucatan’s colonial haciendas and bathe in limestone cenotes
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Visit Uxmal ruined Mayan temple complex
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Walking tour of Merida

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Mexico / Caribbean coast: Riviera Maya and Holbox

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    Ben Line - Travel Expert

    Ben fell in love with Latin America on a six month backpacking trip from Colombia to Mexico in 1995. Since then he has explored most of South America, including living in Peru for a year. He is now Head of Sales.

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    Anglo-Peruvian Chris grew up in Lima and spent much of his adult life in between London and Cusco as a tour leader, before settling permanently in our London-based Tailor-made and Group Tours sales team.

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    A former Journey Latin America tour leader, Sally spent 7 years working, travelling and living throughout Latin America before returning to the UK to help people arrange their own adventures to this wonderful destination.

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    Lina's passion for the continent where she was born really took off when she moved to Córdoba (Argentina) to study, spending the holidays travelling between Argentina and her native Colombia.

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    Having caught the travel bug as a child, Millie has travelled all over Latin America before making her home in Buenos Aires for 3 years.

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    Sophie lived in Chile before joining us and has travelled extensively across Latin America, from Mexico to the furthest tip of Patagonia and beyond to Antarctica.

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