Chichen Itza at your own pace, with a private guide and a swim at Cenote Ik Kil.
Skip the fixed schedule of a group tour and explore this UNESCO World Heritage Site — also named one of the 'New7Wonders of the World' in a 2007 popular-vote campaign — with a private guide, plus a swimming stop at scenic Cenote Ik Kil.
Visit Chichen Itza with a private guide on a full-day tour tailored to your preferences. Instead of the fixed schedule of a group tour, you get the freedom to discover the site at your own pace, with maximum flexibility built from both guided time and independent exploring, plus a swimming stop at scenic Cenote Ik Kil.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in central Merida.
The iconic stepped pyramid at the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Swim in this famous open-air cenote near Chichen Itza.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Skip the fixed schedule of a group tour and explore this UNESCO World Heritage Site — also named one of the 'New7Wonders of the World' in a 2007 popular-vote campaign — with a private guide, plus a swimming stop at scenic Cenote Ik Kil. Visit Chichen Itza with a private guide on a full-day tour tailored to your preferences. Instead of the fixed schedule of a group tour, you get the freedom to discover the site at your own pace, with maximum flexibility built from both guided time and independent exploring, plus a swimming stop at scenic Cenote Ik Kil.
El Castillo, the Temple of Kukulcan at the center of Chichen Itza, was built as more than a monument. Its four staircases each have 91 steps, and together with the platform on top they add up to 365, matching the Maya solar year. Twice a year, around the spring and autumn equinoxes, late-afternoon light hits the pyramid's corner at an angle that casts a shifting pattern of triangular shadows down the north staircase — read by many as the silhouette of a serpent descending toward the carved serpent head at its base. It's a real, well-documented optical effect, and the reason the site draws especially large crowds on those two dates each year.
Chichen Itza was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988, recognition based on its scale and significance as an archaeological site. Its other well-known title — one of the 'New7Wonders of the World,' awarded in 2007 — came from a different source: a privately run, Swiss-founded popular-vote campaign, not a UNESCO or scientific designation. The two labels get used interchangeably in casual conversation, but they're genuinely different kinds of recognition.
What makes this version 'elite' is the format rather than the site itself: instead of moving through Chichen Itza on a group tour's fixed schedule, you explore it with a private guide at whatever pace you choose, mixing guided explanation with time to wander on your own.
The day also includes a stop at Cenote Ik Kil, one of the best-known open-air cenotes near the ruins — a near-circular sinkhole with vines trailing down its limestone walls to the turquoise water below, open for swimming.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.