Las Coloradas & Río Lagartos with boat & Lunch from Mérida

Discover Las Coloradas’ pink lagoons, relax at Cancunito beach, and enjoy a scenic boat ride with lunch in Rio Lagartos.

Duration: 12 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Merida - Starting point of our tour.
    In the morning we will pick up our travelers, who will enjoy a pleasant trip to Las Coloradas.
  • Las Coloradas - Tour one of the most iconic lagoons of the Yucatan Peninsula, the red ones with their spectacular pink color due to their high concentration of salt, microorganisms and the sun.
  • Cancunito
What's Included
  • Boat
  • Lunch
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Guide
What's Not Included
  • Carbonated beverages
  • Gratuities
  • Entrance fees
Additional Information

Explore an unparalleled landscape in the pink lagoons, Las Coloradas in Rio Lagartos. An excellent place for a photo session.
Then we will move to a virgin beach called Cancunito, where you can relax with all the tranquility you want.
Finally, we will take a boat ride where we will admire the landscapes, colors, flora and fauna of the place.
To finish,…

Location
Merida
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Exploration352644
Feb 19, 2025
Excellent experience and service - The 3 places are amazing and exceeded our expectations. The service is excellent, we were treated very kindly. Mr. Javier is an expert in your work. Thank you!
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Cj_l
Jan 8, 2025
Awesome adventure & great service! - Our driver/guide Carlos was excellent! Super knowledgeable and very friendly went above to translate everything to English for us :) The stops were so beautiful & a great way to do multiple adventures in one package. I have never seen anything like the pink lagoons! The boat trip through the mangroves was incredible to see all the wildlife!
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B5320sssidneys
Nov 17, 2024
Great day trip - I went on this tour with my mom and we had a great time. The tour was well paced and our guide was profesional and accommodating. Though the drive from Merida is long, the vehicle was air conditioned and comfortable, and ultimately worth it to see Las Coloradas and Rio Lagartos. The local lunch was also solid. Note that the tour does not pickup from airbnbs, so you must elect to pick up at a nearby hotel. We had no problems with the pick up though did have to walk nearly 15 minutes to the nearest hotel.
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Faraway08634590118
Jul 16, 2024
Good day trip! - Carlos (the organiser of the tour and driver) is perfectly fluent in English and Spanish. It was a romantic activity, where you have a chance to take amazing pics. It was divided into 3 parts: 1. Las Coloradas: beautiful artificial salty lakes, with a pink color. There is another guide explaining a bit the context of the lake. 2. A beach: It was a good break as it was too hot and we needed to chill a bit. However, we had to face a ton of mosquitos. 3. A boat tour: We had the chance to see one crocodile. You should see many flamingos, regardless of the season. It was what I was looking for, and it's a good day trip for a honeymoon. It takes the entire day, it's relaxing. I'm usually into more sporty stuff but it was a good break and allowed us to do/see something different.
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Cintra_g
Jul 5, 2024
Great places to visit on this tour - Our tour guide Carlos and driver Andres were excellent. I recommend this tour. What interesting places to go and see The mangroves the boat tour, salt fields and beaches.
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F3264oqbenjamins
Jun 12, 2024
Great experience, lovely people! - This tour was a really great experience! They were super accommodating and picked us up from our hotel even if it was a little out of the way. Carlos was very professional and communication was great! Every person we interacted with was so kind and helpful. I'd definitely recommend this trip if you love nature and wildlife.
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D5379numiguelb
Apr 6, 2025
Great tour, highly recommended, but be prepared for a long journey from Mérida! - The tour was great but the journey is long! The fact that we were not many, we end up going in a small car that was not as comfortable as expected! The tour guide was really nice and did accommodate everything the group required and it was an overall great experience! We were lucky enough to see a small group of pink flamingos even outside of the ideal timing to visit them!
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Kbleedsuk
Nov 26, 2024
Lovely trip but tour guide wouldn't/couldn't speak English - Positives - transport was comfy with good air conditioning & driver/tour organiser (Abraham) was very friendly & did his job well (he explained he didn't speak much English which didn't bother me as he wasn't a tour guide). The things we saw & did on this tour were amazing. Highlight had to be seeing the flamingos and whizzing down Rio Lagartos on a boat, but all the other parts (Visiting Las Coloradas, the trip to the beach, the lovely meal & even the pit stop at a farm shop on the way back) made it a brilliant day out & worth the long journey. Negatives - The tour guide on the boat either wouldn't or couldn't speak English & didn't even give an initial safety message in English. I learnt zero about flamingos/wildlife/the river from this guy. The tour guide given to us at Las Coloradas could speak English but you had to continually ask for it, whereas the Spanish was given automatically. I was given only a fraction of the information that the Spanish speaking tourists on my tour were given. The trip advisor page for this tour states that the tour is in 'English/Spanish' - I really would suggest that the tour company change this tour description to 'Spanish only' if they continue to use the same guides.
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Deniseke9187nx
Jul 26, 2024
Naja, solide - Overall, the tour was satisfactory. However, you have to be aware that the Pink Lagoon is not a nature phenomenon, but a salt factory and you cannot enter the water there. In addition, “lunch” is not served until 4.30 pm. Unfortunately, we were also unlucky that our bus, despite a tour booked in English, spoke only Spanish. Although the tour guides tried hard and occasionally translated information, many clues were lost.
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Elizabeth_m
May 29, 2024
Disappointing experience overall - This tour fell short of our expectations and overall, I would not recommend it. I hate to write critical reviews but I would want to know this information if I were booking so here we go. We had a group of 4, 2 of whom spoke very limited Spanish, one of whom spoke on Spanish, and one of whom is fluent. In the total group there were two other guests, both Spanish speakers. The biggest issue at the start is that they were over 40 minutes late to pick us up, without any communication, explanation, apology, or even acknowledgement. We could have had a much nicer morning had we not been sitting at the pick up point waiting with no answers for the better part of an hour. It was a stressful and annoying start and very off putting. Secondly, while the guide was bilingual, he provided MUCH more information in Spanish than in English and then expected the Spanish speakers in our group to fill in the gaps. This was supposed to be a tour in English according to the post when we booked it. If you don't speak Spanish, I would not recommend. Our boat guide didn't speak any English although he was wonderful and tried his best with Google translate. The post also didn't mention that the tour would be heavily outsourced, meaning that the boat driver and river guide, as well as the guide at Las Coloradas, were separate people than our main guide. Our guide was not helpful and really the duo of driver and guide should have been one person because the only service they offered was transportation. They weren't very friendly and even the other people in our group were very frustrated with them as well. While we loved the boat guide and found him to be extremely friendly and knowledgeable, the life jackets did not have functioning buckles. I can swim but for those who can't this would be really scary. Also a big issue with kids. This seems like something the tour guide should have vetted for, frankly it's kind of the least they can do. In terms of the content of the day, the salt lakes are cool but to me not a must see. It's also tricky because if it's not windy they don't look very pink at all. The beach was fine, it was definitely refreshing after a hot morning. The river boat was the coolest part by far and we learned the most then. I would have done a full day tour just focused on the river.
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