Maya World Yucatan, January 2012
Marvellous Mextrotter Yucatan tour January 2012: 2500 km of Maya sites!
I did the Mextrotter Maya World Yucatan trip at the end of January 2012. I am interested in ancient civilizations and this tour covered about 2500 km of Maya sites in Mexico. From my privileged seat in the minivan (being the only single in the group, I got offered the passenger seat in the front which allowed me more chances to ask questions to our charming guide/chauffeur Anya). All my cotravellers were German speaking, so I freshened up my high school German a lot, but alas, I did not acquire much of Spanish. We visited Tulum (where I got a highly educated English guide for me alone), Chicanna, Calakmul (a not so much visited site which features the highest Maya temple at 44m, where we saw lots of monkeys, boar, pawns and deer roaming in the forest), Palenque, Agua Azul and Mishol-ha falls, Champoton, Campeche (after having a marvellous fish dinner with our feet in the sea sand), Uxmal (near the site we visited the home of a traditional Maya family where we learned some interesting cultural aspects form contemporary Maya culture), Merida (where had a tequila party around the pool on the top floor of the hotel), Chichen Itza (the busiest site we visited), two cenotes (where we had an exotic cool dip), Valladolid (small cute town where we had our “last supper”) and National Park Rio Lagartos (where we had a mud bath covering ourselves with grey, sticky, oily mud all over: we ended up looking like the Mad Men From Borneo). At the end of the tour I had booked three extra nights at Club Akumal Caribe at Akumal, on advice of one of Mextrotter’s excellent assistants. This place was just 20m from the sea shore, and with the great coral riff at only 50m into the sea): a rather remote place for doing some snorkeling and finding many fish I would like to get into my aquarium.
In the end, I really felt boosted by the combination of the Maya cultural tour and my few days at the beach. I can really recommend this formula to everyone, of all ages and cultures.
Lieven de Winter
lieven.dewinter@uclouvain.be
Small Group Tour January 2012
Hi,
We just came back home from your tour Azteca Maya with Hella as a guide.We just want to thank to Hella and driver Edgar again.
We were very satisfied with the trip, many thanks!
Regards,
Nataša Lorbek, Miran Pustoslemšek
Nataša Lorbek, Miran Pustoslemšek
Small Group November 2010
Overall we are very satisfied with the tour we made because of the following aspects:
- Professional tour guide, a very warm person
- Very good route, in combination with very satisfactory hotels, especially in combination with the Baja California tour we did all worked out really well
- Good combination of the tour elements - not all agencies or operators are as flexible as Mextrotter- all elements we on time and complete, put under one umbrella let´s say. So, we hope to meet the next time, probably in 2012 again!
Ernst Trümpelmann & Cosima Mezat
Our Aztecs tour in Mexico!
We had a wonderful tour organised by Mextrotter. We wanted to do the Aztecs and Maya tour with 7 persons, and since no one else subscribed for the same date we had a ´private group´. Enrique was our guide and he was just wonderful. He was funny and told us many things about the country and the places we visited. He took us to places that were not in the program, which we liked because most of the times they were places with very few tourists. We loved the cenote Ekbalam for example he took us to. Overall we had a wondeful tour and we would definitely recommand Mextrotter to anyone!
Josh Grayfield
Azteca & Maya, March 2011
I am glad that we can tell you and your team that we are safe at home again. We had some delay with the flight and transfer to the airport (but the coss were refunded to us immediately). The tour was perfect, it will stay in our memory for a long time, and again, thanks for that! We are also very thankful to Javier, the gude we had during our tour. There was hardly any question he left unanswered, and he always had a joke on his lips to share. He made this tour a wonderful experience as well.
Harald Lanta
Azteca & Maya March 2011
Thank you very much for this nice, interesting tour.
Perhaps a tip for other bookers: You also need a VISA when you only change flight in the US. I could come into the US by ESTA, which I did not know just before boarding my flight. All other things were perfectly arranged and I had a wonderful time.
Michael Ohlig