Exploring The Ancient Mayan Ruins Of Uxmal And Cenotes Hacienda Mucuyche In Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula – Hand Luggage Only

So after our day spent exploring some of the best things to do in Merida in Mexico, our next day was spent exploring the best things to do outside of Merida.

A big one for us was visiting the ancient Mayan temple of Uxmal, venturing to some local Haciendas (which are like these really old farms) and also cooling off in some incredible cenotes.

Neither of us was interested in driving so for this, we decided to either book onto a private tour or get a private driver.

We decided to go for the latter as that was arranged by our hotel and also was considerably less expensive.

Thing is though, we didn’t really feel like a tour guide was necessary for visiting a cenote, haciendas tend to have their own guides inside and we figured Uxmal was the only one that could benefit from being visited with a tour guide but we could explore Uxmal on our own.

Uxmal, by the way, is a lot less crowded than the likes of Chichen Itza but no less impressive.

In fact, I’m pretty certain the main pyramid here is a lot taller than Chichen Itza.

Even from a distance it looks impressive and as you explore the grounds that impressiveness kinda follows you around.

The ticket system to get in is a bit funny. You kinda have to buy two tickets.

One seems to be for the local government and the other is for the site (I think).

Anyway, it doesn’t really matter what either of the two tickets are for, what really matters is that one of them you can pay for by card (or cash) and the other you can only pay for by cash so be sure to bring some cash with you to cover this.

Parking is also pretty straightforward here but seeing as we hired a driver, we didn’t need to worry about that part.

The area around Uxmal is split off into multiple sections and you get given a map to explore it when you first arrive so it’s all pretty easy to navigate.

The only thing that was perhaps tricky initially was getting a sense of the scale of the place relative to the map.

I found that I thought we’d already seen so much of it, only to realise that we’d barely moved past the first couple of spots on the map.

There are no vendors inside the actual grounds of Uxmal itself, only at the tickets area before you enter so be sure to show up…