MEXICO · COAST TO COAST
Pyramids, cenotes, and a beach on every coast.
The Yucatán’s ruins and cenotes, Mexico City’s pyramids and markets, Baja’s whales and the Pacific’s surf towns. The tours and day trips worth booking, all across Mexico.
Only in Mexico
Start with what only Mexico has.
Plenty of places have beaches and boat trips. Almost none have a Wonder-of-the-World pyramid, a sacred cenote you can swim, and the world’s second-largest reef on the same trip. Build the rest of Mexico around these.
The ancient Yucatán
Chichén Itzá & the Maya World
One of the New Seven Wonders rises straight out of the jungle, and the day usually folds in a cenote swim, a limestone sinkhole the Maya held sacred, and lunch in colonial Valladolid. There is nowhere else on earth you string these three together.
- 1 Chichen Itza, Cenote, and Valladolid Tour
- 2 Chichen Itza, Cenote & Valladolid Tour with Tequila and Lunch
- 3 Cancun: Chichen Itza, Cenote & Valladolid Tour with Lunch
The capital
Teotihuacán & Mexico City
Climb toward the Pyramid of the Sun at first light, drift the canals of Xochimilco on a painted trajinera, stand in the courtyard of Frida Kahlo's blue house. Aztec, colonial and modern stacked on the same block.
- 1 Teotihuacan, Guadalupe Shrine & Tlatelolco Day Tour with Lunch
- 2 Xochimilco, Coyoacan and Frida Kahlo with Optional Lunch
- 3 Balloon flight + Breakfast in cave + Pyramids + Pick up CDMX.
Underwater
The Reef & the Cenotes
The second-longest barrier reef on the planet runs the length of the Caribbean coast, and inland the jungle hides cenotes you snorkel through clear, cool freshwater caves. Turtles and parrotfish off Cozumel, Isla Mujeres and Tulum.
- 1 Viator Exclusive: Tulum Ruins, Reef Snorkeling, Cenote and Caves
- 2 Isla Mujeres: Catamaran with Open Bar, Snorkeling and Lunch
- 3 Mega Yacht ALL INCLUSIVE Yelapa Waterfall & Snorkeling Adventure
The Caribbean coast
Turquoise water, white sand, a reef just offshore.
The Riviera Maya runs south from Cancún past Playa del Carmen and Tulum: warm Caribbean water the colour of a swimming pool, cenotes hidden in the jungle behind the beach, and the great Mesoamerican reef a short boat ride out. Easy days, and a lot of them.
Tulum & the Riviera Maya →The big day trip
The one everyone books first.
More travellers book this than anything else in Mexico. A long, full day, and an easy place to start the trip.
The classics
Mexico's Most Popular Tours
Chichén Itzá, Teotihuacán, the cenotes, the catamarans. The experiences that pull travellers to Mexico in the first place.
Where to go
Pick where in Mexico to start.
Cancún for the Caribbean and the reef. Mexico City for pyramids and street food. Los Cabos for the desert coast. Puerto Vallarta for the bay and the whales.
By experience
Or pick what you want to do.
A catamaran if you want the water. A food tour if you want the markets. A balloon over the pyramids, a cenote snorkel, a tequila tasting, a day on an ATV, and the rest.
Coast to coast
Which coast is your Mexico?
Mexico has three very different seas. Pick by the kind of trip you want and most of the map falls into place behind it.
Los Cabos & Baja
Where the desert drops into the sea.
At the tip of the Baja peninsula the cactus runs right down to the water, and the granite arch of El Arco marks where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortez. Gray whales calve here through winter, and the days split between desert ATV trails and snorkelling coves you reach by boat.
- 1 Outdoor Ziplining and UTV Adventure from Los Cabos
- 2 Los Cabos Luxury Sailing, Snorkel and Lunch Cruise
- 3 Cabo Migrino Beach and Desert ATV Tour plus Tequila Tasting
Out on the water
Catamarans, sunsets and snorkel sails.
Open-bar catamarans to Isla Mujeres, sunset cruises off Cabo, lunch sails along the reef. The three boat days we’d book first.
Markets, mezcal and masa
Eat and drink like a local.
Taco crawls and market tours, tequila and mezcal tastings, a cooking class with a local cook. Three ways to build a hungry day, whichever coast you’re on.
Plan a trip
Three ways to do Mexico.
More time than a long weekend? Three routes that string a region’s best into one trip, without a wasted day.
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