A private tour to the real Tulum ruins, a cenote swim, and genuine sea turtle swimming at Akumal.
A private tour for your group only — the real Tulum ruins overlooking the Caribbean, a cenote swim, and genuine sea turtle swimming at Akumal.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the genuine Tulum ruins — the only major Maya site built directly on the Caribbean coast — a cenote swim, and genuine sea turtle swimming at Akumal.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup anywhere in Cancún.
A real Maya site, genuinely unique for sitting directly above the Caribbean.
Genuine wild sea turtles, swimming in their natural habitat.
One of the strongest-reviewed private tours in the region.
A real freshwater swim stop as part of the day.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only — the real Tulum ruins overlooking the Caribbean, a cenote swim, and genuine sea turtle swimming at Akumal. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the genuine Tulum ruins — the only major Maya site built directly on the Caribbean coast — a cenote swim, and genuine sea turtle swimming at Akumal.
Akumal takes its name from the Yucatec Maya words "ak" (turtle) and "lumal" (place) -- literally "place of the turtles" -- and the name has stayed accurate for centuries. Its sheltered bay sits inside real, documented nesting grounds: loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) typically nest here from May through August, and green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from June through September, with hawksbills also regularly spotted feeding on the surrounding reef. Local conservation staff and volunteers patrol these beaches nightly during nesting season to protect the females and relocate vulnerable nests, which is part of why this stretch of coast still hosts wild turtles swimming in open water rather than a controlled tank.
The cenote stop on this tour is a window into a genuinely unusual piece of geology. The Yucatan Peninsula has almost no rivers on its surface because its limestone bedrock is riddled with holes, so rainwater drains straight down into a vast underground network of caves and rivers instead. A cenote forms wherever the thin limestone roof over one of those underground chambers collapses, exposing the water below. There are an estimated 10,000 of them across the peninsula, and many sit along a ring-shaped belt traced back to the Chicxulub asteroid impact some 66 million years ago -- the same impact widely linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs, which is also what shaped the groundwater system you're swimming in.
Tulum itself adds a third, very different kind of rarity: it's the only major ancient Maya city built directly on a Caribbean clifftop. Canoes once moved jade, obsidian, cotton, honey, and cacao through a gap in the reef just below these cliffs, with Tulum acting as the handoff point between seaborne trade and inland overland routes. The thick wall still visible around the site -- unusual for a Maya settlement -- protected a wealthy commercial and military outpost that remained inhabited right up until Spanish contact, making it one of the last great Maya cities still standing when Europeans arrived.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.