Native Trails MyTrails 2025 237 Quintana Roo 4 City Tour of Cancún Duration: 03:00 h · Level: Easy Until the early 1950s, Cancún was a sleepy island with minor archaeological zones of the Mayan civilization and some fishing villages. The decision, taken in 1969, to make Cancún an antipole of Acapulco, then an extremely mundane vacation resort on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, materialized in the planned city you see today: Designed by Agustín Landa Verdugo, its checkerboard layout was to facilitate the mainland logistics of the tourism industry, whose hotels, from the 1970s, began to sprout like mushrooms on the offshore spit of Nichupté lagoon. Take a tour around the lagoon to visit the city with its countless shopping and leisure offers. 5 Exlusive photo shoot in Cancún Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Easy Experience an exclusive photo shoot on the beach of the Riviera Maya, right in Cancún or in the near vicinity – only for you and your partner, with your family, friends, or the travel party. Pixtore makes it happen: Using a professional photographer, they create the perfect ambience to make you feel well and capture your best side for a souvenir of a beautiful journey to Mexico. The photos are, of course, touched up in detail and are made available as a download to you only. 6 Visit of the Museo Maya de Cancún Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy You visit the Museo Maya in Cancún. The Mayas developed one of the most important and most fascinating Mesoamerican civilizations, which was to last for more than 3,000 years. The objectives declared by the founders of the museum include the preservation of Mayan artifacts as well as of Mayan cultural values, language and ways of thinking. During your tour, you can experience the Mayan world with all your senses and then proceed to visit the adjoining archaeological site of “San Miguelito”. 7 Visit of the archaeological zone of El Rey Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Easy Visit the archaeological zone of El Rey (“The King”). Its name is based on an anthropomorphic, king-like sculpture that the British travelers Frederick Frost and Channing Arnold in 1909 found in Cancún – still an island at that time. Together with nearby San Miguelito, El Rey with its two small plazas and a road connecting them was the center of a Mayan settlement living on fishing and maritime trade. Its heyday is estimated to have been in the Postclassic Period between 1200 and 1560 AD, and its structures were already disintegrating when the Spanish arrived. 8 Visit of the Cenote Siete Bocas Duration: 02:30 h · Level: Medium The Siete Bocas cenote is a special case geologically because the subterranean waters did not result in large-area collapse of the roof, but in seven holes only, some of which are quite narrow. Once in the water, you can get to neighboring “mouths” by swimming along curtains of stalactites on condition that the water is low enough. The incidence of light at the other end of the linking passages, which are between 20 and 50 meters (c. 65 to 160 ft.) long, produces spectacular effects; they are most intense about noon when the sun rays enter the openings at a steep angle. 9 Visit of Mexico Lindo Cooking School Duration: 04:00 h · Level: Easy The cooking school Mexico Lindo Cooking, located in the subtropical spiny forest of Puerto Morelos, has made it its mission, to convey the culinary art of Mexico, passed along throughout generation after generation, as well as the anecdotes and folk songs that go with it. In the organic gardens of the school, you and owner Alejandra Kauachi are going to harvest some of the ingredients that will be used in the dishes included in the course. Under Alejandra and her fellow cooks’ expert guidance, you and the other participants will prepare traditional dishes and enjoy them at the colorfully set table on the terrace.
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