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Uxmal & Hacienda Mucuyche Cenotes Private Tour

Uxmal's ruins, then two real named cenotes at a restored henequen hacienda.

Private tour — just your group 8-10 hours Up to 25 guests Free itinerary changes Local expert guide
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Overview

Explore Uxmal with a certified guide, then swim in Cenote Carlota and the cave cenote Cenote Azul at Hacienda Mucuyche, a restored henequen estate.

In Uxmal, explore this magnificent UNESCO-listed archaeological site with a certified expert guide who reveals the symbolic language of its temples and the precision of its architecture. Continue to Hacienda Cenotes Mucuyche, a historic henequen estate, where a local host walks you through the restored grounds before you swim and relax in Cenote Carlota and Cenote Azul, a cave cenote surrounded by lush vegetation.

Highlights

  • Uxmal, Puuc masterpiece Temples, palaces, and geometric facades reflecting Maya symbolism and ingenuity.
  • Hacienda Mucuyche A restored henequen estate where the region's history comes to life.
  • Cenote Carlota & Cenote Azul Swim in two real, named cenotes at the hacienda, including a cave cenote.

What Stops Does This Tour Make?

A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.

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Pickup

Hotel pickup in central Merida.

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Uxmal, Puuc masterpiece

Temples, palaces, and geometric facades reflecting Maya symbolism and ingenuity.

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Hacienda Mucuyche

A restored henequen estate where the region's history comes to life.

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Cenote Carlota & Cenote Azul

Swim in two real, named cenotes at the hacienda, including a cave cenote.

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Drop-off

Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.

What's Included

A private vehicle and driver, just for your group
A professional, knowledgeable local guide
Door-to-door pickup and drop-off
A fully customizable itinerary built around you
All tolls, parking, and fuel

What's Not Included

Attraction admission tickets, unless noted as included
Meals and snacks
Gratuities for your guide or driver
Personal expenses

Why Book a Private Tour With Voyzo?

Your group only — never combined with strangers
Crowded 50+ seat group buses
Fully custom stops, built around you
A fixed script with no flexibility
Door-to-door pickup, wherever you're staying
Meeting at a fixed public meeting point
Direct, transparent pricing — no marketplace markup
Third-party booking fees

Important Information

Know Before You Book

  • Group size can range from 1 to 25 guests — we match the vehicle to your party.
  • Pricing depends on group size, vehicle, and tour length, and is confirmed after your quote request.
  • Tour duration is flexible — the times shown are a typical starting point.

Know Before You Go

  • We'll confirm your exact pickup time and vehicle details after booking.
  • Bring a camera, comfortable shoes, and weather-appropriate layers.
  • Your pickup address is required to finalize the itinerary.

Special Requests

  • Mobility needs, dietary notes, or accessibility requirements? Let us know when requesting your quote and we'll arrange accordingly.
  • Traveling with young children or larger groups — just tell us, and we'll recommend the right vehicle.

Frequently Asked Questions

A real historic estate built on the henequen (agave fiber) industry that shaped Yucatan's economy from the late 1800s onward.
Yes, both Cenote Carlota and Cenote Azul are included for swimming and relaxing.
A complex of four separate buildings arranged around a central courtyard, built mainly in the late 9th century. Their upper facades are covered in elaborate stone-mosaic friezes — geometric lattice patterns, stacked Chaac masks, and feathered-serpent motifs — considered one of the finest expressions of the Puuc architectural style.
It's named after Empress Carlota of Mexico, who is said to have bathed in its waters during a visit to the Yucatán in 1865 — the first recorded person to do so.
Once your quote is accepted, we'll confirm your exact pickup time, vehicle, and driver details by email ahead of your tour date.
Yes — reach out to our team any time before your tour and we'll do our best to accommodate itinerary or schedule changes.

About This Tour

Explore Uxmal with a certified guide, then swim in Cenote Carlota and the cave cenote Cenote Azul at Hacienda Mucuyche, a restored henequen estate. In Uxmal, explore this magnificent UNESCO-listed archaeological site with a certified expert guide who reveals the symbolic language of its temples and the precision of its architecture. Continue to Hacienda Cenotes Mucuyche, a historic henequen estate, where a local host walks you through the restored grounds before you swim and relax in Cenote Carlota and Cenote Azul, a cave cenote surrounded by lush vegetation.

Uxmal's Nunnery Quadrangle is a complex of four separate range buildings arranged around a shared courtyard, built mainly in the late 9th century with additions made over the following decades. Their upper facades carry some of the most elaborate stone-mosaic friezework anywhere in the Maya world: geometric lattice patterns, stacked Chaac masks, feathered-serpent motifs, and carvings of thatch-roofed Maya huts, all assembled from thousands of individually cut stone pieces rather than carved whole. It's considered one of the clearest expressions of the Puuc architectural style — a UNESCO-recognized achievement (Uxmal was inscribed in 1996) built in a region with no natural rivers or lakes, where every carved rain-god mask reflected a real, practical dependence on stored rainwater.

Hacienda Mucuyché's own story runs in parallel. Records of the estate go back to the 17th century, and under the Peón family it became one of the Yucatán's henequen plantations during the industry's late-19th and early-20th-century boom, when the agave fiber known locally as "green gold" made hacienda owners wealthy. That wealth was built on a debt-peonage system that bound Maya laborers to the estates for generations, often for debts they could never fully repay — a hard history that sits behind the hacienda's now-restored, peaceful grounds. The property closed when the henequen industry collapsed and sat empty for decades before reopening to visitors in 2012, its overgrown paths and stonework left largely as they were found.

The two cenotes on the grounds are connected by a restored canal and have their own distinct character. Cenote Carlota, open to the sky, is named for Empress Carlota of Mexico, who is said to have bathed in its waters during an 1865 visit to the Yucatán — the first person recorded to do so. Cenote Azul, by contrast, is a cave-type cenote reached through an opening in the rock, the kind of enclosed, dim pool that the ancient Maya regarded as sacred ground.

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