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A flexible, full-day private look at Playa del Carmen in its three facets: history, Mayan roots, and beachfront.
A flexible private tour of Playa del Carmen covering Fifth Avenue, the Fundadores Park monument, and the Paseo Xaman-Ha area.
This private tour is built to flex in length (3 to 8 hours) to match how much of Playa del Carmen you want to see. It covers Playa del Carmen's own history and Mayan foundations, a walk on Fifth Avenue, the Fundadores Park monument, and time in the Paseo Xaman-Ha area.
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, with private transportation for your group only.
A guided look at the city's history and growth from fishing village to resort town.
Time to walk Fifth Avenue, Playa del Carmen's main pedestrian street.
A stop in this residential and hotel-zone area near the ferry pier.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A flexible private tour of Playa del Carmen covering Fifth Avenue, the Fundadores Park monument, and the Paseo Xaman-Ha area. This private tour is built to flex in length (3 to 8 hours) to match how much of Playa del Carmen you want to see. It covers Playa del Carmen's own history and Mayan foundations, a walk on Fifth Avenue, the Fundadores Park monument, and time in the Paseo Xaman-Ha area.
Long before Playa del Carmen existed as a resort town, this stretch of coast was known to the Maya as Xaman-Ha, 'northern waters,' a small fishing settlement and, more importantly, a key embarkation point for pilgrims paddling by canoe to Cozumel to worship at the shrine of Ixchel, the Maya goddess of the moon, fertility, and childbirth. The structures that survive today, built in the Post-Classic period between roughly 1150 and 1526, sit within the Playacar district a short walk from the modern town; the settlement itself was abandoned not long after the Spanish arrived in the region in the 1520s.
Fundadores Park, your guide's next stop, is anchored by Portal Maya, a bronze archway sculpture roughly 52.5 feet tall created by the Mexican sculptor Jose Arturo Tavares Padilla, installed in late 2011 and formally inaugurated in 2012 to mark the end of the 5,126-year Maya Long Count calendar on December 21, 2012. The sculpture depicts a man and a woman, one pushed by a spiral representing wind, the other by water, joining hands at the arch's peak, a tribute meant to bridge the region's Maya past with its present-day, multicultural population.
The tour's flexible three-to-eight-hour format also gives time for Quinta Avenida, the pedestrian street running the length of the historic center, and Paseo Xaman-Ha in the Playacar hotel zone, a quieter, mostly residential stretch near the Cozumel ferry pier, tracing the same arc the destination itself has followed, from an ancient pilgrimage port to the modern resort city of today.
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