We will meet at the designated meeting point. Please remember to arrive on time to avoid missing the tour. After gathering at the meeting point, we will make a brief stop at a shop before leaving Mérida, where you can purchase water and snacks for the journey. We will then head to Celestún. The drive takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Have fun on a boat ride that connects you with nature while discovering the mangroves, flora, and fauna of the area. Get your camera ready for flamingos and crocodiles. We will visit: Bird Island The meeting point of the sea and the estuary Pink flamingo viewing area A mangrove tunnel Freshwater spring Mayan clay bath
We will enjoy a delicious seaside meal where you can savor the food, the sound of the waves, and the tranquility of the beach. The restaurant offers lounge chairs, palapas, a swing, restrooms, and showers. Afterwards, you will have plenty of free time to cool off, sunbathe, enjoy the beach, and visit the beach bars at your own pace.
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A gorgeous and relaxing day on the water and the beach with our tour guide, Julio. His chill vibe was needed after several busy days. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see the flamingos as they had already left the area but the beautiful mangroves are enough on their own. For lunch, I highly recommend paying extra for the whole red snapper. It was fresh, cooked and seasoned to perfection.
With mangroves, crocodiles, egrets and the famous flamingos, Celestun is an enchanting place well worth a day trip from Merida. Alberto, a warm and knowledgeable guide, gave our group the 101 on Mayan life and language as well as what we’d come to see. Be warned: The motor boat ride is rough. The tour includes a mediocre beachfront lunch with your choice of main course and nonalcoholic beverage. Bring lots of sunscreen. It’s bright on the water.
The places itself were beautiful, but I went to trip to see mangroves, and the boat tour was mainly open water and maybe maximun 5 minutes in mangroves. Also our quide who spoke little english didnt came to the boat, so that whole time everything was only spanish. Also we didnt stop to the market at the beginning As sead in the timetable.
I recommend this trip. The guide/ driver was very good and pleasant. It was a relaxing trip with beautiful scenery. The only down fall was the guide on the boat( different one) did not speak or understand English. We made do with an app but missed a good deal. This did not take away from the beauty. The meal provided was very good.
Flamingos great . So delicate Lots of food is available so groups were small If food shortage they would have been larger groups. Small group on boat Area is magical
Beautiful and relaxed tour and nice to get back to Mérida late in the afternoon and not late at night. It's not good value though - too expensive.
Julio is an excellent guide. The boat trip to see the flamingos was beautiful. The beach is fun, but a bit crowded.
The boat ride into the mangroves was spectacular, contorted root formations, red water and exotic birds… Flamingos seen from far away, and one small crocodile. Celestún beach has tricky currents and a sudden dip, beware!
We knew the ride would be long, but the boat ride was great. We actually saw a couple of crocodiles as well as a flock of pink flamingos. Dipped our toes in the cool Cenote. Our driver Carlos was great, good sense of humor and made the ride enjoyable. We also enjoyed meeting the other folks that were on the trip with us. Well worth the time and cost.
Awesome trip, Carlos the guide was amazing very punctual and informative, trip was from Merida took an hotur to get out then an hour in the boat and a swim and lunch in the Gulf of Mexico. highly recommend.
The tour itself was amazing! We saw thousands of flamingos at the peak of the season. But I was disappointed to learn that I was charged double the price of every other fellow tour participant, and on top of that I was the only person in our group that didn’t have lunch included. Book directly through the tour agency if you can, or you’ll get ripped off apparently.
The driver was very nice and polite and Celestun is beautiful indeed. These were the advantages. Now, the guide promised to pick me up at 7:40, so I had to wake up at 7:15 (and I am not a morning person) what time did they actually pick me up? 8:50! The person on Messenger was polite but kept telling me they’d come soon, which wasn’t true. After the boat tour they took us to a beachside restaurant which had notoriously tasteless food with a price tag of a nice place in Merida. The restaurant had toilets but they were flooded and wacky. Besides, there were around 4 broken sun beds (in our group there were 7 of us excluding the locals which were also there) and no umbrellas, so despite all the sunblock, I ended up with red skin. Near the beach there were some other local people sitting on the sand with bear cans and looking at us very strangely, so if I wasn’t very inclined to put on my swimsuit and get in the water to begin with, I was definitely not going to do that after seeing them. 3,5 hrs on that beach was definitely too much. If you can, hire a car and go to the place by yourself, there are boat tours you can hire for a fraction of the price, plus you have more flexibility. Don’t forget to take a jacket or a scarf because it’s quite windy on the boat.
Celestun was great At the beginning, there are a lot of adorable raccoons. The flamingos are just amazing and we also saw a cocodrile! Great experience
Highly recommended, super nice and people who take you by boat and very friendly mangroves and explain during the tour each eetalle
A little less than two hours drive from Merida is Celestún, a beautiful reserve with a beach with unforgettable sand and sea. I advise the boat trip through the reserve to meet the flamingos in their natural habitat and delight watching them fly. The walk also goes through a small area of mangroves that is beautiful and I suggest being alert to the noise of nature: some crocodile can be seen. Boatmen often show the diverse fauna of the place. While Celestún is known for its reserve and can be toured in a day, I consider it an excellent place to stay and a nice sleep very close to the beach. It is still little exploited touristically and that makes it more wonderful.
The flamingos are great. Also the mangrove forest. But not at that price, please. For 156,- Euro I would like to have more program and a full-day competent guide. No taxi ride with a - although nice - but nevertheless ignorant companion.
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