Calakmul Tour: Explore Ancient Mayan City
4.7
38 Ratings
Calakmul Archaeological Zone

Embark on a full-day adventure to the ancient Mayan city of Calakmul, hidden in the Mexican jungle. Explore the grandeur of the Mayan world and spot diverse wildlife on this immersive tour.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Calakmul Archaeological Zone - Travel the roads of the ancient Mayan city of Calakmul, one of the main capitals of the Mayan world and one of the largest archeological findings of the Twentieth Century. Discover the exuberant wildlife among the surrounding jungle, where you can spot monkeys, toucans, ocellated turkeys, deer and, if lucky, jaguars…
What's Included
  • Certified guide
  • Water
  • Entrance fees
  • Round transportation to/from your hotel in XPUJIL
  • Picnic Lunch
What's Not Included
  • Tips
Additional Information

Embark on a full-day adventure to the ancient Mayan city of Calakmul, a hidden treasure in the Mexican jungle. Our unique tour begins with a scenic one-and-a-half-hour drive into the heart of the Biosphere Reserve, where the remnants of Mayan civilization await. Experience a rare opportunity to explore one of the largest archaeological findings of the…

Location
Calakmul Archaeological Zone
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Stevepg4716bb
Nov 17, 2025
Unforgettable Experience. - What a great tour of some amazing Mayan ruins. Our driver & tour guild were excellent & professional. Well worth the cost. Saw seceral monkeys while in jungle plus on road saw a turkey, pheasant, & couple mammals which our driver stopped for. So cool!
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655tom
Nov 5, 2025
Breathtaking experience - Exploring Calakmul was an incredibly unique experience. It felt like a trip back in time, with incredible views and the chance to see some amazing wildlife. We were very lucky to have Manuel who was an excellent guide and a fountain of knowledge for all the flora, fauna and Mayan history. Can't recommend this trip highly enough.
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Mike
Oct 18, 2025
Excellent knowledgeable Tour in English - Tour as expected - excellent I enjoyed the food and cold water/coke at the end. Guide and driver excellent (apologies forgot names) English language was perfect which made up for my inadequate espanol. Gave insight and personal opinions/stories which were really welcomed Highly recommended. Was the only official tour we did of any of the archaeological sites and glad we picked this one. Thankyou. Would recommend to friends, family and strangers. Gracias Mike & Zoe
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Federico
Aug 11, 2025
EVERYTHING PERFECT!! - We are a group of 5 Italian guys, we did a guided tour with Manuel as guide and two other Italians. We found ourselves very well both for the transport, very punctual, both with the guide itself. Manuel was good in explaining, nice and thoughtful: since during the tour we had not been able to see either tapirs or monkeys he lengthened the walk by 15 minutes to show us in a point from which we usually do not pass. Lunch was simple but good, and there were plenty of drinks to cool off. Highly recommended! Especially with Manuel as a guide
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Cissymustravel
Jul 20, 2025
Complete and satisfactory - Experience visiting Calakmul excellent. Ivan, the driver, very helpful and punctual to pick us up from the hotel. The highly trained Ezekiel guide on the Mayan world and the animal and plant world, being an expert ornithologist. Very complete in answering every question and introducing visitors to Mexican culture. It included lunch. Very recommended. You can also see monkeys, turkeys, tapirs.
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761nicoled
Apr 28, 2025
Highly suggested - The tour was amazing. The weather was hot but we got the necessary (water and snacks) to go through the tour. Ezechiel, a local tour guide, makes sure to give all informations and answers all questions about the ancient site and mayan culture and makes sure everyone it's fine and enjoy the tour. He also knows a lot about the biosphere and try to show as many animal he can. For sure you will se monkeys, birds and others animals. For the jaguars and pumas depends. At the end we also got a simple but tasty lunch included. Everything it's super worth it.
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Brunocm9647pe
Apr 18, 2025
Incredible experience - I made the family trip since Xpujil, the transport arrived at the time combined to the hotel for the visit, driver with good driving, local guide with very good knowledge of the ruins and the biodiversity of the place, were provided water and fruits in abundance, and when we finished the visit we already had the table prepared with lunch. I highly recommend this visit, the archaeological area in the middle of this natural reserve is amazing, in addition to being able to climb the pyramids, seeing the animals loose in nature is a good complement. We regret to know that the archaeological excavations of this magnificent area have been stopped for about 5 years, not showing the public all the buildings that already exist and that will continue to be lost.
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580keithd
Mar 14, 2025
Great tour company for visiting Calakmul ruins - If you are planning to visit the Calakmul ruins then I would highly recommend Ka'An Expeditions, which is run by and for the local community. It's a full days trip, with the journey from Xpujil, where we were staying, to the ruins taking two and a half hours each way. You get about with three hours at the site,and a sandwich lunch is provided. Our guide, Manuel - who we picked up, together with his mother who works at the ruins, from their house just outside the park entrance - was excellent and knowledgeable, not just about the ruins but also about the biosphere in which they arer found, and made the visit much more interesting than it would have been if we had visited under our own steam. Overall we had a fantastic day, and were rerally glad to have used Ka'an Expeditions. Note that you need to have strong legs and a head for heights to climb the ruins - go now though while its still possible to do that, and before the hoped for crowds brought the area by the Tren Maya turn Calakmul into another Chichen Itza!
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Roland_h
Mar 7, 2025
Absolute Empfehlung - It was a fantastic experience. Our Guide gave us interesting information and showed us the wonderful place of Calakmul. We really enjoyed it.
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Manfred
Feb 17, 2025
Great day at Calakmul - Manuel as our guide and Ivan as our driver both made our trip to Calakmul a great experience. We were a group of 6 in total, and that was perfect. We climbed three pyramids, saw spider monkeys and howler monkeys and turkeys, and had a great cold lunch at the parking lot afterwards. We are happy we booked this tour.
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From $150
up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).