Merida - Izamal collective day tour:
- Take advantage of low rate collective day tour services, be picked up and dropped off at your Merida city hotel lobby.
Izamal como Pueblo Mágico de México en el 2001
aquí se venera a la Virgen de Yucatán, aquí estuvo el Papa Juan Pablo II y contamos con el segundo atrio cerrado más grande del mundo, después del de la Plaza de San Pedro, en el Vaticano”.
Also known as the "City of the Three Cultures", Izamal is located right in the middle of the peninsula and may be the oldest city in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Nowsadays Izamal is the heart of the religious cultural legacy of the Yucatan people.
At Izamal visitors can be witnesses of the prehispanic time period with its mayan temples of Kabul, The Conejo (rabbit) and Itzamatul; the colonial period with stoned colonial buildings dating back to the XVI and XVII centuries and its people, proud of their heritage, mixture of Maya and Spanish elements.
The yellow and white colored buildings in Izamal resembling the colors of the holly see flag and its monastery dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, one of the main leaders of the Franciscan order are outstanding. The Monastery and the church, visited in 1993 by Pope John Paul II are considered the most important sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the Yucatan.
The Franciscan Convent was built from and over one of the Mayan pyramids. This convent has the 2nd. largest atrium in the world beat only by the one of the Vaticano; Also famous for the story of the monk Fray Diego de Landa, its founder, who burned all the indian Scrips, and then feeling remorse for what he had done, tried to write all he could remember of the ways of the indians in his existing book "Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan"(Relation of Things of the Yucatan).
- Approximate duration of this tour: 9 hours (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.)
- Depart: Usually after breakfast betweeen 9 - 9:45 a.m. and back by 6 p.m.
- Transportation: a/c van, a/c car or a/c bus dependable on number of persons.
- Tour description: Local tour guide will stop by hotel lobby and look for passengers to introduce himself and ask for reservation confirmation travel document.
Trip starts right after all passengers are picked up (30-45')crossing half of the city with direction the main archaeological site of Chichen Itza. Approximate driving time is one and a half hours. General explanations of the Mayan and Yucatan culture are provided on the way.
Once at Izamal, following spots detailed explanations will be provided:
- San Antonio de Padua monastery & the museum.
- Calesa (horse buggy) seightseeing.
- Handcrafts local workshop stop.
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Approximate duration of the tour: 8 hours including free time for pictures.
Lunch time: 1 hour.
- Tour Includes: transportation in a/c vehicle, bilingual (English-Spanish) tour guide, buggies sightseeing.
- Tour does not include: lunch, drinks, archaeological site entrance fees, any tip, any extra expense not considered in prior paragraph.
Rates:
Adult: Us.42.50
Child under 10 y/o: Us.27.50