Yucatan Explorer
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Trip Highlights
· Volunteering with the City of Joy
· Mayan Chichen Itza
· Rio Lagartos
· Colonial Merida
· Calakmul biosphere reserve
· Biking, snorkelling and kayaking
· Playa del Carmen beach
Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Your volunteer project is with several projects in Cancun Mexico, such as the Home for Children, the Bread & Blanket Shelter, the Women’s Shelter, and the Home for the Elderly and Cafarnaum Hospice.
You can help out with tasks such as preparing and serving meals, accompanying elderly people and enabling them to be more active, teaching English and helping out with maintenance work such as gardening, cleaning and painting.
Trip Summary
From Cancun we go to nearby Puerto Morelos, where you have the rest of the day at your leisure. You depart the following days exploring Mayan ruins, colonial cities, caverns, biosphere reserves, lagoons and spotting flamingos. Biking, snorkelling and kayaking is on offer in Siankaan, your next stop, before hitting lively Cancun, the site of your Community Development volunteering.
Your Community Development project is with City of Joy in Cancun Mexico. You can help out with tasks such as preparing and serving meals, accompanying elderly people and enabling them to be more active, teaching English and helping out with maintenance work such as gardening, cleaning and painting. You spend the final two days of the trip unwinding at Caracol Village in Playa del Carmen, where you can enjoy the all inclusive activities by the beach. Your trip ends back in Cancun, with transfers to the airport.
From Cancun we go to nearby Puerto Morelos, where you have the rest of the day at your leisure.
We depart the following day for the incredible Mayan archaeological site, Chichen Itza, and on to Rio Lagartos for the night. Here, we will have a boat trip where you can spot flamingos and other birds, before transferring to the delightful colonial city of Merida, where we have a tour the next day. The wonders of Uxmal archaeological site are our next stop, as well as the famed Loltun Caverns.
We then experience the biosphere reserve in Calakmul, with howler monkeys and other indigenous flora and fauna, and we stay at Chicanna Ecovillage. There is an optional bird watching hike the next day, as well as Kohunlich archaeological site, before moving to Bacalar, with its ”seven colour” lagoon. Biking, snorkelling and kayaking is on offer in Siankaan, our next stop, which is the most important protected reserve in Mexico, before hitting lively Cancun, the site of our Community Development volunteering.
Your Community Development project is with City of Joy in Cancun Mexico. City of Joy helps out in several houses such as the Home for Children, the Bread & Blanket Shelter, the Women’s Shelter, and the Home for the Elderly and Cafarnaum Hospice.
You can help out with tasks such as preparing and serving meals, accompanying elderly people and enabling them to be more active, teaching English and helping out with maintenance work such as gardening, cleaning and painting.
We spend the final two days of the trip unwinding at Caracol Village in Playa del Carmen, where you can enjoy the all inclusive activities by the beach. Your trip ends back in Cancun, with transfers to the airport.
