Chacchoben
Mahahual, Mexico
Chacchoben is a Maya city in the jungle of southern Quintana Roo, an hour inland from the cruise port of Costa Maya,…
18 tickets & tours
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Mexico's Maya sites run from the Puuc hills of Yucatan, where palace facades are covered in carved stone masks, to the rainforest cities of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Chiapas, where pyramids rise above an unbroken canopy.
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Bonampak
Palenque, Mexico
Bonampak is a small Classic Maya city in the Lacandon rainforest of Chiapas, famous for the painted rooms of its Temple…
13 tickets & tours
Calakmul
Calakmul, Mexico
Calakmul is the great Maya capital of the Snake Kingdom, deep in the rainforest of southern Campeche, 35 km from the…
9 tickets & tours
Yaxchilan
Palenque, Mexico
Yaxchilan is a Classic Maya city in the rainforest of Chiapas, reached only by boat along the Usumacinta River on the…
9 tickets & tours
Muyil
Tulum, Mexico
Muyil is a quiet Maya site in the forest about 20 km south of Tulum, on the edge of the Sian Ka'an reserve in…
8 tickets & tours
Kabah
Santa Elena, Mexico
Kabah is the second-largest Maya city of the Puuc hills in Yucatan, Mexico, about 140 km south of Merida and joined to…
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San Gervasio
Cozumel, Mexico
San Gervasio is the largest Maya site on the island of Cozumel, a group of small temples, palaces and plazas linked by…
5 tickets & tours
Dzibilchaltun
Mérida, Mexico
Dzibilchaltun is a Maya city 16 km north of Merida in Yucatan, Mexico, lived in for thousands of years and best known…
4 tickets & tours
Kohunlich
Chetumal, Mexico
Kohunlich is a Maya city in the rainforest of southern Quintana Roo, about 65 km west of Chetumal, known above all for…
4 tickets & tours
Dzibanche
Bacalar, Mexico
Dzibanche is a Maya city in the forest of southern Quintana Roo, west of Bacalar, that was the first capital of the…
3 tickets & tours
Edzna
Campeche, Mexico
Edzna is a Maya city in the valley south-east of Campeche, about an hour's drive from the walled port.
3 tickets & tours
Ichkabal
Bacalar, Mexico
Ichkabal is a vast Maya city in the forest west of Bacalar, in southern Quintana Roo, opened to visitors only recently.
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Tonina
Ocosingo, Mexico
Tonina is a Maya city in the highlands of Chiapas, 13 km east of Ocosingo, whose acropolis climbs seven terraces to…
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Xcambo
Dzemul, Mexico
Xcambo is a small Maya port town on the Gulf coast of Yucatan, about 30 km east of Progreso, that grew rich on salt…
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Mayapan
Tecoh, Mexico
Mayapan was the last great capital of the Maya in Yucatan, ruling much of the north of the peninsula from the 1220s…
2 tickets & tours
Becan
Xpujil, Mexico
Becan is a Maya city in the forests of southern Campeche, Mexico, surrounded by a dry moat almost 2 km long that is…
1 ticket or tour
Yaxuna
Yaxcabá, Mexico
Yaxuna is a Maya city in central Yucatan, about 20 km south-west of Chichen Itza, that was lived in from the Middle…
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Balamku
Calakmul, Mexico
Balamku is a small Maya site in the forest of southern Campeche, about 50 km north of Calakmul, discovered only in…
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Chicanna
Xpujil, Mexico
Chicanna is a small Maya site in southern Campeche, famous for a temple whose doorway is carved as the gaping mouth of…
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El Rey Ruins, Cancun
Cancún, Mexico
El Rey is the largest Maya site on the island of Cancun, a group of 47 low temples, platforms and houses set between…
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Kinich Kakmo Pyramid, Izamal
Izamal, Mexico
Kinich Kakmo is a Maya pyramid in the centre of Izamal, in Yucatan, rising about 40 metres above the streets of the…
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Sayil
Oxkutzcab, Mexico
Sayil is a Maya city of the Puuc hills in Yucatan, south of Uxmal, best known for its Great Palace, a three-level…
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Calakmul lets you climb Structure 2, more than 45 metres high, above the forest; Bonampak keeps painted rooms of Maya court life, usually paired with Yaxchilan, reached by boat on the Usumacinta; Kabah has the mask facade of the Codz Poop; Edzna, an easy half day from Campeche, rises in its Building of the Five Storeys. Go between November and April, and use Bacalar as the base for Dzibanche, Kohunlich and Ichkabal.