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See Chichen Itza with your own private guide, then cool off in a sacred cenote and stroll colonial Valladolid.
A private guide and driver take you to the Chichen Itza pyramid early, with a cenote swim and lunch in Valladolid built into the day.
This is a genuine private day trip departing Playa del Carmen rather than Cancun, so pickup timing is built around Riviera Maya hotels. Your guide leads you through the Chichen Itza complex, including El Castillo (the Pyramid of Kukulcan), before a swim at Cenote San Lorenzo Oxman and an a la carte lunch in Valladolid's colonial center.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel or Airbnb pickup in Playa del Carmen; private air-conditioned vehicle for your group only.
A private guided walk through the Pyramid of Kukulcan and the wider ceremonial complex, one of the New7Wonders of the World.
A refreshing swim in this open-air cenote near Valladolid, reached by a rope swing entrance cut into the rock.
Free time and an a la carte lunch in this colonial Yucatan town, known for its pastel facades and cathedral.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private guide and driver take you to the Chichen Itza pyramid early, with a cenote swim and lunch in Valladolid built into the day. This is a genuine private day trip departing Playa del Carmen rather than Cancun, so pickup timing is built around Riviera Maya hotels. Your guide leads you through the Chichen Itza complex, including El Castillo (the Pyramid of Kukulcan), before a swim at Cenote San Lorenzo Oxman and an a la carte lunch in Valladolid's colonial center.
El Castillo, the pyramid your guide leads you through first, was built as both a monument and a working calendar, in at least two phases — an inner, smaller pyramid dates to around 800-900 CE, with the larger structure visible today raised over it and completed sometime between roughly 900 and 1050 CE, based on radiocarbon dating of wooden beams found inside. Each of its four staircases has 91 steps, which together with the shared platform at the top add up to 365, one for every day of the Haab' solar year the Maya tracked, while its nine stepped tiers, split by the stairways into 18 sections, echo the 18 months of the Maya calendar. Twice a year, around the spring and fall equinoxes, the late-afternoon sun throws a jagged shadow down the edge of the northern staircase that appears to slither toward a carved stone serpent head at its base, a deliberate piece of architectural astronomy honoring Kukulcan, the feathered-serpent deity the pyramid was built to honor. Chichen Itza earned UNESCO World Heritage status in 1988 for its architectural and historical significance, and in 2007 was separately named one of the New7Wonders of the World through a privately organized global popular vote, two different honors, both genuinely held by the same site.
After the ruins, the day heads toward Valladolid for a swim at Cenote San Lorenzo Oxman, an open-air sinkhole on the grounds of the Hacienda San Lorenzo Oxman, about 15 minutes outside town. Long vines trail down from the rim of the cenote to a pool of clear water roughly 3 meters below, and the site's well-known rope swing lets visitors drop straight in; a staircase and life vests are also on hand for anyone who'd rather ease into the water than jump.
Valladolid itself, where the tour breaks for lunch, was founded by the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Montejo in 1543, making it the second Spanish city established in the Yucatan, after Merida, and relocated to its present site two years later atop a former Maya town called Zaci. Its nickname, 'La Sultana del Oriente' ('the Sultana of the East'), nods to the pastel-colored colonial buildings and wrought-iron balconies that still line its cobblestone streets today, centered on the Cathedral of San Gervasio, originally built in 1545, destroyed in 1705, and rebuilt the following year.
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