Day 1 · Cancun
Arrive in Cancun
You are met at Cancun airport and taken to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to settle in and enjoy the hotel.
9 days · 8 nights
Colonial towns and Mayan cities across the Yucatan, linked by train rather than long days on the road.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesA loop from Cancun that uses the new Maya Train to cross the Yucatan Peninsula, stopping in Valladolid, the walled port of Campeche and Merida before two nights beside Chichen Itza. Guided days at Edzna, Uxmal and Izamal sit between free afternoons in the old city centres, and the last train runs straight to Cancun airport.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Cancun
Day 1 · Cancun
You are met at Cancun airport and taken to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to settle in and enjoy the hotel.
Valladolid
Day 2 · Valladolid
A morning Maya Train takes you to the colonial town of Valladolid. After leaving your bags at the hotel, head to the Saamal cenote at Hacienda Selva Maya for a swim and a buffet lunch, so pack swimwear and a towel. The afternoon is yours in town, and most evenings a video-mapping show plays from 9 pm.
Campeche
Day 3 · Campeche
A longer train journey crosses the peninsula to Campeche on the Gulf coast. In the late afternoon a guide drives you through the UNESCO-listed old town of pastel houses and arcades, then walks you along the old city walls to the cathedral.
Edzna and Bahia de Tortugas
Day 4 · Edzna and Bahia de Tortugas
A guided visit to Edzna, a quieter Mayan city with its Pyramid of the Five Levels and buildings in several regional styles. Afterwards, spend a slow afternoon at Bahia de Tortugas on the coast, with a seaside lunch and time to swim in the sea or the pool.
Merida
Day 5 · Merida
A midday train carries you north to Merida, the capital of Yucatan state. The afternoon is free to wander its colonial streets and squares.
Uxmal
Day 6 · Uxmal
A guided morning at Uxmal, a UNESCO-listed Mayan city in the Puuc style. See the 35-metre Pyramid of the Magician, the carved Nunnery Quadrangle and the Governor's Palace, then visit a cacao museum to learn what the plant meant to the Maya, with lunch at a local restaurant.
Izamal and Chichen Itza
Day 7 · Izamal and Chichen Itza
Take the train to Izamal, known as the City of Three Cultures, for the Convent of San Antonio de Padua and the town museum. Visit a jewellery workshop in Cocoyol, a papier-mache workshop and a Mayan herbalist, then the weaving village of Kimbila before the train on to Chichen Itza.
Chichen Itza
Day 8 · Chichen Itza
An early start for the ruins, with transport there and back. Explore at your own pace: the Temple of Kukulkan, the Great Ball Court, the Temple of the Warriors, the Sacred Cenote and the observatory known as the Snail. Guides can be hired at the entrance.
Cancun
Day 9 · Cancun
After breakfast, transfer to the station for the last train, which runs to Cancun Airport station.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Cancun · 1 night
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Valladolid · 1 night
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Campeche · 2 nights
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Merida · 2 nights
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Chichen Itza · 2 nights
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Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
Mexico
5 days · 4 nights
La Paz
Four nights in a hotel facing the cathedral in La Paz, with a day out on the water or the town each day. From January to March you head to Magdalena Bay to look for grey whales; the rest of the year the day is spent in the old centre and on the beaches. Then a long day down to Todos Santos and Los Cabos, and a boat to Espíritu Santo to snorkel with sea lions.
Mexico
5 days · 4 nights
Tuxtla Gutiérrez → San Cristóbal de las Casas → Palenque → Villahermosa
Fly into Tuxtla Gutiérrez and go straight out on the river through the Sumidero Canyon, then spend three nights in the highland town of San Cristóbal de las Casas, visiting Maya villages and the lakes of Montebello. The road then drops north past the waterfalls of Agua Azul to Palenque, which you explore on the last morning before flying out of Villahermosa.
Mexico
6 days · 5 nights
Tuxtla Gutiérrez → San Cristóbal de las Casas → Palenque → Villahermosa
Begin on the river in the Sumidero Canyon and spend three nights in San Cristóbal de las Casas, with days in Tzotzil Maya villages and at the lakes of Montebello. Two nights in Palenque follow, with a day by road and river to Bonampak and Yaxchilán, and a guided morning at Palenque itself before you fly out of Villahermosa.
A loop from Cancun that uses the new Maya Train to cross the Yucatan Peninsula, stopping in Valladolid, the walled port of Campeche and Merida before two nights beside Chichen Itza. Guided days at Edzna, Uxmal and Izamal sit between free afternoons in the old city centres, and the last train runs straight to Cancun airport.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
Other ways to see Mexico, closest in length first.
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Small group tour | 5 days | Chihuahua · Creel · El Fuerte
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