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Multi-Day Tours Off the Beaten Track Under 5 Days 3 day Calakmul Tour from Playa del Carmen or Cancun

3 day Calakmul Tour from Playa del Carmen or Cancun

Highlights

Travel comfortable with your own personal car with driver, or drive yourself to all the beautiful destinations. This three day tour is designed specifically for people in Playa del Carmen or Cancun who would like to experience a genuine jungle experience in Mexico.Travel to Calakmul and enjoy the Mexican nature at its best.

Tour Information


Details
Quick Details

Tour Departure Days
Every Day of the Week
Duration
3-day tour
Price
From 379 $
Countries
Mexico
Departure from Riviera Maya Mexico
Trip Style
Off the Beaten Track
Activities
Hiking, Mayan Ruins
Physical Demand
Medium
Season
Year Round

The Tour

A great tour featuring the Mayan ruins in Calakmul.

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Day by Day

Full Itinerary

Day 1

This tour starts from your hotel if you choose the driver option, otherwise you pick up your rental vehicle at the nearest office in Cancun or Playa del Carmen (hotel, Tulum and Riviera Maya pick up available for extra charge). You will first enjoy an amazing cenote snorkel tour on the way to Calakmul. Afterwards you ride 5 hours to get to the Calakmul region where you will spend the night a hotel or a campground in the jungle. Both hotel and camping are surrounded by nature.

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Day 2

After breakfast you drive 1 hour to the archaeological site of Calakmul where you will enjoy a guided tour of these amazing ruins. You return to the hotel or camp for lunch and rest. The afternoon is used to visit special smaller but very interesting archaeological sites in the region. The night is spend at the same hotel or campgrounds as last night.

Day 3

You arise early to go on a guided morning hike and spot animals. The subtropical jungle here is home to different kinds of monkeys. Jaguars, tapirs, many smaller rodents and other mammals, tropical birds and insects are also present in abundance. You return to the hotel or camp for breakfast and drive back to Playa del Carmen or Cancun afterwards (6 hours).

This tour is available in several options:

  • Fully guided tour with driver or drive yourself in a rental car arranged by us.
  • Overnights in hotel or camping.

You can choose between 2/3***, 4/5**** star hotel stay or camping; both hotels and campgrounds are situated beautifully in the jungle reserve of Calakmul.
  • The 2/3*** star hotel provides comfortable bungalows with private wash basin and shared bathrooms and showers.
  • The 4/5**** star hotel rooms are extra comfortable ecological bungalows with plenty of space and private bathroom.
  • The camping provides big, private tents with comfortable air mattresses, (bucket) shower and toilet facilities, bird watching towers and jungle paths.

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Included

Tour Price Includes:

  • Self drive option:
  • 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch
  • 2 Nights in big, private tent with air-mattress, sheets and blanket.
  • Air-conditioned rental car (fuel and toll fees not included)
  • Cenote snorkel tour (3 hours)
  • 4 hour archeological tour of Calakmul
  • 3 to 4 hour Animal spotting tour in the morning

Included in the fully guided tour:

  • all of the above, plus:
  • Multilingual guide / driver
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Fuel and toll fees

 
Pictures

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Price

Pricing For This Tour

Self drive price, camping from Playa del Carmen or Cancun with rental car: US$ 379.00 per person, min. 2 people.
Upgrade to hotel: please contact us for prices.

Fully guided tour price, camping from Playa del Carmen or Cancun: US$ 579.00 per person, min. 2 people
Upgrade to hotel: please contact us for prices.



 
 


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4 Testimonials

  • Very professional booking and organization staff. Extremely knowledgeable and service-minded guides. The tour lived up to all our high expectations, would highly recommend to any traveler interested in the Yucatan.
    Stefan, Sweden

  • The 3 day Calakmul tour has been an amazing experience from the start to finish. Really nice, relaxed and well informed guides, the sites and jungle experiences were just great, as were the meals prepared by the locals and the wonderful and tranquil campsite.
    In short: Just perfect!
    Elin, Sweden

  • The trip was excellent and everything ran very smoothly.
    No problem with the coach trip, it was very comfortable.
    The Palenque trip was very good. Our guide was very knowledgeable and the transfer was very comfortable.
    The private transfer to Calakmul was also good, the driver was also our guide for the few days around Calakmul. He was great. The hotel was very comfortable and a fun experience, food there was great too! The owner was fantastic, she was very knowledgeable about the sites (she is an archaeologist). The little extra side trips throughout the day were all included in the cost. The days were long and good value for money I feel.
    Planning the trip with Duende tours was very good and you made things very easy and always got back to me very quickly, and suited the trip to my budget. Overall I have no complaints at all and was very pleased with the service provided.
    Thank you
    Alex Stiby
    Palenque and Calakmul Tour July 2011

  • Onejungle

    I had a fantastic time in Calakmul and Rio Bec Dreams. The atmosphere at the hotel was just great. The Canadian couple who owns the place is very sweet and they did everything to make my stay comfortable and nice. My Jungalow was clean and nicely decorated. At night you could hear all the animals as the place is right in the jungle – a great place! The service was always good and I was missing nothing.
    The transfer to Calakmul was very good. As it was just me the driver took me to the site in a normal car. Getting there, I had all the time I wanted to walk around the ruins and climb the pyramids. Calakmul is an amazing place – if you have only time to visit one ruin you should go to Calakmul as it has everything of the other ruins – just combined: pyramids to climb (different of course but similar to the ones in Teotihuacan), jungle as in Palenque, view as in Monte Alban (just nicer J), animals as in no other side (including all kinds of Monkeys, Tarantulas, Tucans etc.) – and the best thing: no one is there. I think there was only me and a Spanish couple on the site all day long.

    Thank you for organizing it. Calakmul was a very special place and I would not have seen it without you!

    Cecilia Karl, Germany

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I have had a really good experience on this tour. Everything was well organised and our guide was very...
  
  
  
  
  
  
Both bird outings were very good. Transportation services were excellent. Both Luis and Elmer know their...
  
  
  
  
  
  
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