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Cenotes by Bike and Mayan Cooking Class: Local-Guided Snorkeling and Cuisine
4.9
10 Ratings
Ciudad Chemuyil
Cenotes by bike and Mayan style cooking class is a 100% local experience and guided by locals. Riding our bikes we will visit and snorkel 4 different cenotes in my home town that just a few locas we know how to get to. When you book our experience you are not on a tour, you are hanging out with a family that happens to be a local.
Cenotes by bike and Mayan style cooking class is a 100% local experience and guided by locals. Riding our bikes we will visit and snorkel 4 different cenotes in my home town that just a few locas we know how to get to. When you book our experience you are not on a tour, you are hanging out with a family that happens to be a local.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Chemuyil - During this experience, participants will prepare the most authentic traditional Mayan-style pork. The journey begins at the host’s home, where the ingredients will be introduced and explained. The meat will be seasoned, wrapped in banana leaves, and cooked for approximately 2.5 hours. While the meal is cooking, participants will embark…
- Chemuyil - During this experience, participants will prepare the most authentic traditional Mayan-style pork. The journey begins at the host’s home, where the ingredients will be introduced and explained. The meat will be seasoned, wrapped in banana leaves, and cooked for approximately 2.5 hours. While the meal is cooking, participants will embark on a bike ride to snorkel in four distinct cenotes, each unique and part of the local community. Unlike the commercial cenotes around Tulum, these are hidden gems known only to locals. After exploring the cenotes, the group will return to the host’s home to enjoy the Mayan-style meal prepared earlier. Guests can create their own tacos and enjoy as many as they like. As local Mayans, the hosts are eager to share their culture by teaching how to cook authentic Mayan cuisine and showcasing local surroundings, away from the bustling commercial cenote parks.
- Cenote Xunaan Ha - This cenote will be the final stop of the experience. It is a fully open cenote with two wooden platforms for jumping. Participants will use snorkel masks to explore the area for about 30 minutes or more. After snorkeling, the group will enjoy the cochinita pibil prepared at the start of the tour.
What's Included
- Snorkel masks and life jackets
- Entrance fees
- Lunch (cochinita pibil) - authentic traditional Mayan style pork
- Bikes
- Guide service
- Snorkel masks and life jackets
- Entrance fees
- Lunch (cochinita pibil) - authentic traditional Mayan style pork
- Bikes
- Guide service
What's Not Included
- Bottled water
- Tips
- Bottled water
- Tips
Location
Ciudad Chemuyil
Across of pizza leo in chemuyil quintana roo at 8:50 am.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(10 Ratings)
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Mina_e
Aug 29, 2025
Amazing cooking and our favourite cenotes! - Gilmer and Gael were fantastic hosts. They made this actually our favourite activity on our trip. It was personal and the communication throughout was amazing.
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Hallidaym2023
May 9, 2025
Bike tour & Mayan cooking - We visited 4 small local cenotes,
which were beautiful and not crowded. Our guides were friendly and we had a great time with them. The cooking was fun, and the cochinita we made was out of this world!
Highly recommend this trip with Gilmer and Oswaldo, they run a fabulous tour.
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Dean_b
May 29, 2024
A unique and very personal Cenote tour - This excursion was as good as everyone says it is. Talk about personalized service. Gilmer started the tour with meal prep on the table on basically the front porch of his house. Authentic traditional Mayan food. Kind of like Dutch oven. He put it on the Fire to let it cook while we did the tour of four unique cenotes traveling between each one on bicycles. He was a very personable host who explained everything very very well. The cenotes were not crowded. The water was crystal clear. Mask and snorkel weren't required but they allowed us to go through some tunnel areas underwater which was unique and fun. There were alternate routes to the Cenote Caverns if you weren't comfortable underwater. After the tour of the cenotes, we returned to Gilmer's home where we feasted on the meal he had prepped earlier. It was delicious! He tries to keep the group small so you get a very personal experience. This was worth every penny of the price of the Excursion. I definitely feel like I got my money's worth and more.
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Dunja_k_ri
Dec 13, 2023
One of the best tours in Yucatan - I highly recommend this beautiful and well organized tour with Gilmer and his brother. The chosen cenotes are not too famous and we were sometimes even alone with our small group. The bikes were in great shape and the prepared meal was one of the most delicious ones during our whole 4-week-trip through Yucatán. We liked it so much, we even did a second tour with Gilmer.
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Giss87
Jul 9, 2023
Great experience off the beaten track - Excellent tour! Learned to cook tacos on the traditional way before going out and visiting four cenotes, all very different, not the most typical public ones. Host spoke great English, provided everything you need, bikes, snorkels, goggles. And the tacos were delicious!!
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Angeliqued824
May 24, 2023
Top experience - A great tour mat one-timer and friendly guide Gilmer. After a warm reception, we get an explanation of what we were going to prepare. Then we did the preparations together and then started cycling in the meantime. The cenotes were quiet and without tourist happening. Gilmer took beautiful underwater photos of us. After cycling we came back to Gilmer’s house to enjoy our tacos.
An unforgettable experience that I would recommend to anyone 🇲🇽♥️
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Laramariakroft
May 21, 2023
Outstanding food and a very special cenote discovery tour - I totally recommend this tour. It was great to get to know some cenotes which are not flooded with tourists and we had a great little diving adventure. Gilmer and his brother are great guys, well organized and without allures. The bikes were well taken care off. The prepared food was extremely delicious. Alone for that delicious meal I could repeat the tour over and over.
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Advonefin
May 6, 2023
Great tour - My friend and I had a great tour with Gilmer. He took us to 4 cenotes. 3 were off the beaten path and we saw some really cool caves in those cenotes. We had a great lunch at his house that he started to prepare before we went to the cenotes and it was ready when we got back. He provided a vegetarian lunch for me as a special request. It was a more unique and positive experience than I had expected. Highly recommended.
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W2976ktleannel
Jul 5, 2022
A Must Do Experience - We had a fantastic day with Gilmer from start to finish. Preparing the food, cycling to each cenote where Gilmer shared his knowledge with us. Highly recommend doing a local tour of the cenotes over the large tours. We got each one to ourselves and Gilmer was great with my kids, age 10 and 14. The last cenote had two platforms to jump off into a lagoon which the kids loved. Then finished off by eating lunch back at Gilmer’s front yard. This was definitely one of the best days of our holiday. We had water shoes which we were glad of and everything else we needed was provided.
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Willeke_d
Aug 12, 2025
Beautiful experience - Friendly guides, but with cenotes very many mosquitoes. Nice food and cooking class. Well taken care of!
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