Ek Balam Cenote Maya
Ek Balam Cenote Maya
This can be great addition to your vacation, you will have the chance to enjoy the most recently open to the public archaeological zone in the area, during this adventure tour you will also have the chance to enjoy and cool off at the Cenote Maya that is surrounded by beautiful natural formations, and a great natural pool that is 80 mts diameter.
Itinerary Ek Balam Cenote Maya
Your journey will begin with pick up at your hotel between 07:00 to 08:00 a.m. depending if your hotel is located in the Riviera Maya or Cancun.
Once you arrive to the area, our friendly staff will help you with your check in, depending where we arrive first at Ek-Balam, or Maya Cenote (depending on the logistics)
If you arrive first to the Cenote Maya you will start your descend at this impressive Cenote down a large wooden staircase, built using a mayan technique, where you will be able to enjoy the beautiful formations, and swim at the largest natural pool in the region. As you start ascending from the underworld by way of a tunnel that will lead you to the parks garden.
Optional Adventure Activities: Swimming in the Cenote, diving, rappel, Trepachanga, and Tarzan vine. (120kg/ 264 lbs. maximum weight for these 3 last activities)
You will have some free time to visit the great artisans and admire the way they carry out their craft skills, using their hands and some of the same techniques as their ancient mayan relatives.
After your visit to the your first location you will be served a very traditional Mexican Meal Maya Buffet that will include lime soup, cheese and chaya tamales, beans, vegetables rice, mole, chicken, hand -made tortillas, fruits, flavored water and coffee.
Then we start our way to Ek Balam that is one of the impressive ceremonial places in the Yucatan Peninsula, where you will be surprised with the incredible decoration of their temples and plazas, as you keep walking, you will admire the unique sculptures in high relief that have surprise to some of the most renewed archaeologists of the world.
At the front of the main temple they have the sculpture that supports the restored Jaguar Mouth, where the ball game took place the POK TA POK and the false arch, that have been of the icons of the the architectural Mayan culture.
5:00 – 6:00 PM Arrival at hotels in Cancun and the Riviera Maya.
