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Mexico Birding Tour Among Mayan Ruins
Forty endemics and many subspecies of birds along with other interesting flora and fauna have made the Yucatan Peninsula home among the Maya ruins and they co-existed with Maya Nation one of the ancestral cultures in Mexico. Along this tour, you will focus on birding but you are not listers so you will also enjoy Mayan Ruins and Pyramids, old sanctuaries, national parks, beautiful landscape, flora, fauna, and culture will combine to make this birding tour more meaningful.
Key information
- Group or private tour possible, rates will vary depending on this.
- Minimum 2, maximum 6 participants
- English, Spanish speaking guide (available on request)
- All park fees are included
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Highlights
- Admire beautiful flora, fauna, and wildlife
- Explore the areas where dinosaurs got extinct
- Visit two biosphere reserves and a bird sanctuary
- Opportunity to see 40 endemics and many subspecies
- Visit the first villages the Spaniard's conquistadors built in 1600s
- Visit the oldest observatory in Meso America
- Visit the Mayan Ruins and Pyramids
- 9 nights accommodation
Styles
Accommodation
You will be staying in different hotels, all four-star, and boutique, colonial-style accommodations. There will be an ensuite bathroom with hot / cold water. Some rooms are equipped with two beds for solo travelers of the same gender sharing a room, others have one bed for couples. A solo visitor can request a private room and the single supplement fee will apply.
Program
Regarding nature / wildlife, México is the 5th country with mega biodiversity.
Target birds:
- American Flamingo
- Yucatan Jay
- Lesser yellow-headed vulture
- Mangrove vireo
- Zenaida dove
- White-throated bobwhite
- Yucatan woodpecker
- White fronted parrot
- Snowy plover
- Black catbird
- Orange oriole
- Yucatan flycatcher
- Mexican sheartail
- Bare-throated tiger heron
- Rose-throated tanager
- Snail kite
- Collared forest falcon
- Great-throated chat
- Tropical gnatcatcher
- Leeser greenlet
- Tawny-winged woodcreeper
- Yucatan wren
- Yellow Lored Parrot
- Yucatan vireo
- Ocellated turkey
- Singing quail
- Yucatan nightjar
- Keel-billed Toucan
- Collared aracari
- Yucatan gnatcatcher
- Yucatan poorwhill
- Royal flycatcher
- Collared trogon
- Crested guan
- Double-thooted kite
- Great curassow
- Jabiru
- King vulture
- Agami heron
- Cozumel wren
- Cozumel vireo
- Cozumel emerald hummingbird
- And at least 200 more
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival
Spread your wings and mingle with your tour leader over a welcome dinner.
Meals: Dinner
Day 2: Birding Cozumel endemics
You will focus to enjoy three endemics and many more resident, migrant, and vagrant birds Vireo, wren, emerald hummingbird and if lucky, Cozumel Thrasher (believed to be extinct).
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 3: Motmots in Mayan Ruins
You drive to archeological site to explore the Mayan ruins in search of black-headed trogon, turqoise browed motmot, Yucatan vireo, Yucatan jay, and more in addition to learning from Mayan dinasty.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 4: Long day birding among world's heritage site, oldest astronomical observatory in the world
This day, you will go birding. Schrub euphonia, ant tanager, bath falcon and others will be present. When they take a rest, you will enjoy the oldest observatory in the world and largest calendar, all built with stone. Considered a world's heritage site, it is a home to Yucatan gnatcatcher, Yucatan flycatcher, and many more birds. In the evening, you will enjoy the Potoo and Yucantan nightjar.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 5: EK-Balam to discover Angels and cenote to enjoy owls
Enjoy birding canivet's emerald, Mottled owl, and ferruginous pygmy owl among others. You will visit a cenote hole in the ground, caused by a meteor, now full with crystal water. The area is home of Turquoise-browed Motmot and many more birds (bring your bathing suite and towel in case you want to swim in the cenote).
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 6: Biosphere reserve - birds sanctuary 1 (by land)
Enjoy a visit to a birding biosphere reserve with thousands of birds to encounter many endemics and subspecies.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 7: Biosphere reserve - bird sanctuary 2 (by boat)
Enjoy a visit to a birding biosphere reserve with thousands of birds and other wildlife, beautiful vistas, and crystal waters. Bring your bathing suit if you want to refresh in the crystal waters.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 8: Birding in Mayan community, around monkeys and perhaps jaguar and Mayan ruins
You will visit a Mayan community. Different hawks will be present today, also different woodpeckers such as lineated, golden-fronted and Yucatan woodpeckers, but also Mayan anttrush. You will encounter ruins along the way and keep birding for ones you could have missed.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 9: Relax, morning birding, and farewell dinner
Spend the day at leisure. Enjoy birding with a light walk in the surroundings. You will then get transferred to the next venue and farewell dinner.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 10: Departure
Keep your good memories and come back soon!
Meals: None
Note
This tour can be combined with a 7-day tour to Baja California Peninsula either prior to or after the Yucatan tour. For more information, please send an inquiry.
The program is limited to 6 participants and a main leader, unless you are coming as a bigger family or a group of friends traveling together.
Included excursions
- Birding tours
- Mayan Ruins
- Cenotes
- Old villages
- Biosphere reserve
- Pyramids
- Observatory
- Beach areas and mudflats
Guides
Maria Elena Muriel
Maria Elena has a degree in Tourism Administration but made a career in ecotourism and public land administration with a specialty in natural and cultural heritage interpretation. She is a certified tour guide by the Ministry of Tourism and National Park Service (NPS). When she is not leading programs, she trains other guides or teach environmental education to youth in high-school. She will combine her knowledge, skills, experience, and expertise with other local experts to provide you with the best Mexican safari ever.
Location
This birding tour takes place in Yucatan and Cozumel, Mexico. Following your arrival, a guide will meet you at the International Airport of Cancun Mexico (CUN).
México is a fascinating country with ancestral cultures as important as the ancient old-world cultures, who left a great legacy of buildings, food, knowledge and believes. There were more than 30 nations among the the Mayans in Yucatan Peninsula and other surrounding countries, and there were still 60 nations alive who preserved their culture and traditions before the conquest, then Europeans came and introduced theirs, mixed with theirs and gave origin to new mixed cultures known as Mestizo.
It is worth mentioning that you will visit small Mayan villages, small communities to provide you opportunities to get immersed in the culture. You will also try delicious food from different periods of time in history and much more.
Food
The package includes meals as outlined in the itinerary. The meals are pre-selected from a variety of local restaurants to have different culinary experiences. However, you can also order other food at your own expense.
If you have any food restrictions, please let Birding Los Cabos know in advance.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
What's included
- 9 nights accommodation
- 8 breakfasts
- 8 lunches
- 9 dinners
- 15 tours combined in 10 days among them: birding, archaeology sites, snorkel, biosphere reserves, world heritage sites, 9 towns / communities / villages
- 7 archeological sites with pyramids & ruins
- All transportation on AC-comfortable vehicle
- Use of scope and appropriate bird books
- Birds check-list to take home
- Led by a certified heritage interpreter and naturalist in coordination with local experts
What's not included
- Airfare
- Personal expenses / miscellaneous
- Special food (at additional cost)
- Single supplement (at extra cost)
- Tips / gratuities
- Travel documents such as passport, visa
- Medical insurance, travel insurance (required)
- Alcoholic drinks
- Anything that is not mentioned in the description
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Cancún International Airport
14 km
Transfer included
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 40% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
