Our Tours
Chacchoben • Kohunlich • Bacalar • Limones • Customized
We offer a wide selection of tour options in prearranged packages, as well as customized tours. Contact our Sales Manager to discuss options for your next visit to Costa Maya.
General Tour Information
All tours depart from our office in the fisherman's village of Mahahual. Cruise ship visitors it is a short shuttle ride from the port to the village (about 5 minutes).
Notice: Due to the destruction of our office by hurricane Dean all tours will depart from Tequila Beach Club in the village. Your confirmation will be clearly mark with the departure location.
All tour times are local Costa Maya time the same time zone as central time in the United States.
Cruise visitors in the event that your ship is late or early to arrive in port, please make your way to our departure location as soon as possible. Your tour time will have been rescheduled to accommodate you. From time to time the cruise line change the date you call port in Costa Maya, this includes you as well. We reschedule your tour and not cancel.
All tour other then customized tours use air conditioned vans, driven by a federally licensed tourist driver.
You are covered by our travelers insurance during all transportation portions of your tour.
All guides are federally certified and most reside in the village of Chacchoben.
Cold bottled water is provide on all tours.
Chacchoben • Kohunlich • Bacalar • Limones • Customized
The Mayan Ruins at Chacchoben |
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The original name of this site is as of yet unknown, therefore it takes it´s name from the closest village to the site. Chacchoben which is a reference to "The place of the red corn" in Maya.
The newest archeological site open to the public here in Quintana Roo. It is conviently located less then an hours drive from the cruise ship port of Costa Maya making it a popular tour for cruise passengers.
Being deep in the jungle the site offers an abundant flora and fona in addition to the spectacular Mayan Ruins. With only about 10% of the site currently excavated you will have the unique experience of seeing the ruins in there natural state side by side with those that have been excavated. The park like setting of the site makes for a very pleasant tour with ample shaded areas.
The site also has a service area with a gift shops, snack bar, and restrooms.
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Chacchoben • Kohunlich • Bacalar • Limones • Customized
Kohunlich Mayan Ruins Tour |
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Kohunlich is a "must-see" when you visit the Costa Maya. This is by far my favorite ruin site in Costa Maya and give it my highest recomendation.
The name Kohunlich comes from English "cohoon ridge" which was the name of an old lumber camp located in the area around 1920-30, named after the giant Cohune palms that give Kohunlich its beautiful park-like setting.
Highlights of the site include the Temple of the Masks, a large structure ornamented originally with eight large stucco masks (of which only five are conserved) and considered one of the most complete samples of Mayan iconography of it's time (500-600 AD).
The symbolic message of these masks is very complex and there are numerous interpretations -- see it yourself and come to your own conclusions.
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Chacchoben • Kohunlich • Bacalar • Limones • Customized
Chacchoben • Kohunlich • Bacalar • Limones • Customized
Chacchoben • Kohunlich • Bacalar • Limones • Customized
