Public Bus Chiapas & Yucatan

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

Aztecs and Maya by bus

Thanks Mextrotter for all your help by planning our tour! We decided to make a bus tour through Mexico and we had a wonderful experience. The nice thing was that we received all the bustickets beforehand - we have travelled to quite some places now but had never had this experience. Mostly we needed to visit the local office of the agency or something to pick up the tickets. Really we were surprised by the quality of the service of the busses, they are wonderful. We especially liked the area of San Cristobal, although the trip to Palenque was a bit heavy because of all the curves...Overall we are looking back to a wonderful experience.

Jane Parker

Bustour Aztecs & Maya, August – September 2011

For all people that do not like to read a lot: CONCLUSION: We would go again with Mextrotter! Good organization, reliable airport transfers, good advise on route, excellent hotel selection.

Teh proposed standar route can be changed, but since we only had 2 weeks holiday, we decided to go for the standard route. On our trip from  Mexico City to Playa del Carmen we got to see a Mexico with a diversity fo culture and nature, and wonderful ethnical tribes. During the whole bustour we felt secure and comfortable. On the bigger busterminals one can see big tablets with the tarifs of the taxi´s, so you get very well orientated. Our personal highlights were the excursion tot eh Indian villages with home made tortillas from the Tzotzil, Teotihuacán and Celestun. The water in Agua Azul had, as expected in the rain season, brown water. Another highlight was the hotel Villas Kin Ha in the jungle, with its small oberservation tower and restaurant in built around a tree. We decided to pay the tour afterward, but since everything was organized so well, this would not have been necessary. A special thanks to Patrick Junkers for his phone-tips and Anja Richter for her reliable airport transfer. This all made it perfect!

Nicky & Alex