Private Tour
Coba, Hidden Cenote and Mayan Family Lunch - Private Tour
Overview
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At Coba you'll find the tallest pyramid in the Yucatan, offering one of the most breathtaking views you can imagine. Traverse the site on bikes or traditional Mayan taxis, enjoy a fun and interested tour with a certified local guide.
Later we you will go to authentic Mayan community. A local shaman, will share the depths of Mayan culture through a captivating Mayan ceremony, bringing you closer to the Mayan way of life. As a special privilege, we'll receive permission to swim in a sacred freshwater cenote.
To conclude this extraordinary day, savor a traditional local lunch prepared by a Mayan family. By joining this beautiful experience, you also provide support to indigenous people from local Mayan communities through your visit.
Additional Info
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Playa del Carmen
You will be Pick up at Your hotel, Villa or airbnb. Drive to Coba ruins in the morning
Zona Arqueologica de Coba
Surrounded by lakes, a magical tropical jungle and the tallest pyramid in the Yucatan, at the top one of the best view awaits you. We will travel through the site by bikes or mayan taxis, taking the ancient Mayan white roads or “Sacbeob” to reach an astonishing 42m pyramid "Nohoch Mul".
What‘s Included
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Bottled water
Snacks
Lunch Local food and drinks
Bike or Mayan Taxi in Coba
Round Private Transportation
Certified tour guide
Gratuities
Personal expenses and souvenirs
Pick ups in Cancun, Costa mujeres and Playa mujeres has extra cost of 60 USD
Pickup points
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Options
Private Coba Mayan Adventure
Duration: 9 hours
Traditional Mayan Lunch
Private Transportation
Pickup included
Reviews
22 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Highly recommend this tour!
carolwA1389ML,,Apr 18, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Coba was amazing. The location in the jungle provides shade and was not crowded. However a guide is necessary to get the most from the visit. Our guide, Josh, was excellent. From the very beginning, our pickup was on time. Offered snacks and water. Josh provided an excellent history of the Yucatán area along our way. Once we arrived, Josh began our tour. He was so knowledgeable about the Mayan history and shared all the details about Mayan life as we toured the ruins. It was fascinating. He answered all questions with tremendous insight. We chose to travel through the grounds by bike which was fun. Highly recommend! Following Coba, we travelled to a Mayan home for an authentic lunch. Only for our family! We all agreed this was the highlight of the trip. Carlos and Nadia welcomed us to their home and prepared an excellent meal in the Mayan tradition. We even sat with her to make tortillas! Carlos is a Shaman and blessed our arrival and meal. The food was delicious! Wonderful to observe the traditional cooking methods. Underground fire and stone stove. They were gracious and obviously proud of their heritage. Following lunch, we travelled to a Cenote for a swim. Wonderful to cool off in the beautiful water underground. Very peaceful. The cavern is amazing. In summary, we highly recommend this private tour. The itinerary is unique and an excellent way to explore Mayan culture avoiding the heat and crowds. Thank you Josh and Felipe!
Amazing experience
trippingmcook,,Mar 17, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Nora and Aron were excellent. What a fabulous day we had. Tulum was so beautiful. Coba was amazing. And swimming at the Cenote was an amazing experience. The lunch with the Mayan family was so good. All and all I give it two thumb up.
Mayan Ruins Tour
marcussR8559TM,,Nov 10, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00This was our second trip with Diego. We liked him so much the first trip, we made sure to find him again a couple years later. He is very knowledgeable about the history and culture of the area and can talk at any level to keep it interesting. He was attentive to the group’s needs and made sure we had a great time.
Fabulous Family Mayan Memories
carolpL5053XP,,Nov 27, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Diego shared so much Mayan history and accentuated the info using a I pad to share maps and graphics . Even our teenagers were captivated! The Talum ruins, bike ride through the jungle in Coba, and a purifying dip in a gorgeous cenote set us up for a delicious traditional Mayan lunch. Our family of 9 will cherish this adventure. We love Pixan Travels support of the contemporary Mayan community.
Best authentic tours!
598dustinr,,Apr 8, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00My large family (group of 12) took 2 tours with Diego 1 to Chichen Itza & 1 to Coba, these were the best tours I’ve taken! Diego is incredibly knowledgeable, brings pictures and books to back up his knowledge and give more examples of what some ruins looked like hundreds of years ago! He explains everything in a very palatable way so everyone even the children who came can easily understand. He brought us to not only ruins of ancient civilizations but local places to eat including a Mayan family that made us the most amazing, authentic meal, we swam in multiple cenotes that had no other people there, and we got the amazing opportunity to be cleansed by a Mayan Xaman in Campamento Hildago. There was clearly a lot of planning and thought put into making the schedules for these trips & they were both beautiful! & I want to be sure to shout out Eric, our van driver who was so nice and pretty funny- it was great meeting them both and making memories we will have for a lifetime!
Amazing!!!!
linsiw2018,,Mar 7, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00My brother and I did a combo tour yesterday - Tulum, Coba and Cenotes! It was truly an incredible experience that we will never forget. The cenote was the highlight for us. Eric and Diego are very knowledgeable and kind. Highly recommend! You won’t regret it.
Tried 4 different tour companies in 1 trip Pixan was best by far.
RobinF702LV,,Jun 12, 2022
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00This was our first trip to Mexico and we did 4 tours with 4 different tour providers during our trip, Ocean Tours, Altournative, Pixan Travel and Xcaret. Pixan Travel was THE BEST by far. The tours all go to mostly the same places. What makes the difference is that Pixan is only private tours, their vans are newer and nicer (read better a/c, more comfortable). It's a small family run tour company, unlike the others, and you get a more authentic experience. On our tour we were the first people to the Cobs ruins and had the place practically to ourselves. The Cenote we visited was empty except for us, and the traditional Mayan meal was not the typical big buffet for all the tourists cooked by local Mayans, but an actual meal on the patio of a Mayan family home with just us and the family (and all the dogs and chickens). Diego was our guide (also an owner) and he was phenomenal. Highly recommend.
Diego was informative, personable, and flexible - can’t say enough good about him!
GSTgst,,Oct 12, 2021
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00A group of three of us hired Diego to take us around Tulum for the day and he was nothing less than spectacular! While this was my first time in Tulum, my two friends have owned a condo there for six years and Diego brought even them to places they’ve never been to before in the area. We visited the archaeological site of Coba, swam in an ultra private cenote (fresh water underground pool), got a blessing by a Mayan Shaman, toured an animal rescue sanctuary, and had an authentic Mayan meal prepared by a local family (the fresh tortillas were out of this world). Diego was informative, personable, and flexible - can’t say enough good about him! I would absolutely recommend hiring him for your touring needs!
Best excursion of my life
Freeflowingyogi,,Jun 9, 2021
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I would give this tour way more than 5 stars if I could. I’ve traveled a lot and this was by far the best tour I have ever been on. Diego was so kind and full of knowledge to share, and the tour being private was such as nice perk to make it more personal. We visited the Mayan ruins in Coba, followed by a Mayan ceremony with a Shaman, swam in a cenote and finished with a delicious lunch with a Mayan family and a tour of their land & animal preservation sanctuary which was absolutely incredible and beautiful. Everything about this tour was SO authentic and magical. My soul feels so refreshed and recharged after this experience. The tour truly exceeded my expectations by a landslide and I would highly recommend it. Thank you so much Diego, you were such a wonderful guide. I hope to be back in February and will 100% book another tour with Diego @ Pixan!
Private coba & cenote
desireea534,,Jun 8, 2021
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00If you’re going to do any tours at all, this group and having a private experience is the way to go! Diego made our experience so personal and definitely catered to us. He accommodated to what we were most interested in, took tons of pictures for us, and made sure we had the best experience. We didn’t have to worry about anything once our day started. We saw the Mayan temples in coba, followed by a private cenote experience, and then had lunch at a Mayan families home restaurant, complete with a tour of their jungle property and animal preservation! This was the best excursion experience we could have had. Thank you so much!
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