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The last great Maya capital, plus a real cenote swim in Homun.
Explore the Mayapan Archaeological Zone, once the capital of Yucatan with around 4,000 structures, then cool off at a cenote in the nearby town of Homun.
This private day trip makes it easy to combine two quintessential Yucatan experiences: visiting real ancient Maya ruins and swimming in cenotes. You'll begin at the Mayapan Archaeological Zone, featuring around 4,000 structures from the one-time capital of Yucatan, then cool off in the fresh water of a cenote at the nearby town of Homun.
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.
A real, once-capital Maya city with around 4,000 structures — a distinct site from Chichen Itza or Uxmal.
Swim in a natural cenote near the town of Homun after exploring the ruins.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Explore the Mayapan Archaeological Zone, once the capital of Yucatan with around 4,000 structures, then cool off at a cenote in the nearby town of Homun. This private day trip makes it easy to combine two quintessential Yucatan experiences: visiting real ancient Maya ruins and swimming in cenotes. You'll begin at the Mayapan Archaeological Zone, featuring around 4,000 structures from the one-time capital of Yucatan, then cool off in the fresh water of a cenote at the nearby town of Homun.
Mayapan served as the political and cultural capital of the northern Yucatan during the Late Postclassic period, roughly from the 1220s until the mid-1400s — making it the last great Maya capital before Spanish contact, and a very different site from the earlier, better-known cities of Chichen Itza and Uxmal. According to Maya accounts, it was founded after a civil war toppled Chichen Itza's rulers, when the region's powerful lineages, chiefly the Xiu and Cocom families, agreed to build a new, shared walled capital. At its height, Mayapan's compact, defensively walled core covered roughly 4 square kilometers and held an estimated 12,000 residents across some 4,000 structures, before internal conflict between its ruling families led to its destruction and abandonment in the mid-1400s — decades before the Spanish ever arrived in the Yucatan.
Because Mayapan was occupied so much later than Chichen Itza, its architecture and layout tell a different part of the Maya story: a densely packed, fortified city built for political consolidation rather than the sprawling ceremonial centers of earlier periods. Walking its grounds gives a genuine sense of what a 15th-century Maya capital, right before the Spanish conquest, actually looked like.
The cenote stop afterward, in the nearby town of Homun, sits on something specific to this exact stretch of the Yucatan: Homun lies directly on the Ring of Cenotes, a roughly 165-kilometer-wide semicircular band of sinkholes that traces the buried rim of the Chicxulub crater, left by the asteroid impact 66 million years ago widely linked to the mass extinction that ended the age of dinosaurs. The crater's edge fractured the limestone bedrock in a ring around it, and that fracturing is exactly why cenotes cluster so densely around towns like Homun, Cuzama, and Tecoh — the cooling, crystal-clear freshwater swim at the end of the day comes from geology tied, quite literally, to one of the most consequential impacts in the planet's history.
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