FOCUS:             Maya Ruins, Tropical Forest, Wildlife
                        and Birdwatching
ATTRACTIONS:  Palenque National Park

Your guided group visit of Palenque with a professional guide starts at 9 a.m. with a pick up at your hotel and transfer to the site of Palenque. Visit the site's main complexes with your guide and learn about the Maya of Palenque, the architectural complexes they built in their grand city, their religion and beliefs, their lifestyle and art. At 1 p.m. transfer to a local restaurant for lunch. Transfer to the museum for a guided visit at 2 p.m. After your visit to the Palenque Museum transfer back to your hotel. Your entrance to the natural reserve, to the park & the museum as well as lunch are included in your One Day tour of Palenque. (The museum is closed on Mondays).

PRICE PER PERSON:  US$ 91

Our archaeology & natural history tour of Palenque is a private and more in depth guided experience through the jungle and to get deeper into the archaeology and history of Palenque, including:

• Transportation from yor hotel to Palenque park at 8 a.m.
• Nature reserve and Palenque Park entrance fee
• Guided visit of Palenque National Park with a qualified archaeological guide
• Lunch at a local restaurant
• Museum visit & entrance fee (the museum is closed on Mondays)
• Sales & tourism taxes

PRICE PER PERSON

What's not included:

Personal expenses, breakfast, alcoholic beverages and tips.

Our birding tour of the Catazaja Lagoon, 28 kilometers north of Palenque, is simply the best you can get in the area until you reach Tikal, in neighboring Guatemala... You need to reserve your birding guide well in advance and the suggested time for this tour is leaving Palenque at 4:30 a.m. or at 2:00 p.m. Our birding tour, which takes 3 and a half hours to complete, includes the following:

• Bird observation in the Catazaja Lagoon (a Ramsar declared wetland preserve), one of the best possible birding opportunities in the region, with a professional birding guide. This tour includes ground transportation to the lagoon from your hotel in Palenque and is on board a boat, to be able to get to different areas around the lagoon and to see different roosting and nesting sites. We will operate this tour starting with one person, but we recommend a minimum of 4 people.