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Riviera Maya: Rio Lagartos & Las Coloradas Day Trip w/Lunch

4.5  / 556 reviews
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Day trip
Riviera Maya: Rio Lagartos & Las Coloradas Day Trip w/Lunch
Activity provider:TRIP ALLIANCE
4.5  / 556 reviews

Ride a boat through the canals of Rio Lagartos and take a clay bath with Coloradas sand on this day trip from Riviera Maya. Observe bird species in their natural habitat and enjoy a local lunch.

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Duration 12 hours
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Live tour guide
English, Spanish
Pickup included
Please wait in the hotel lobby 5 minutes before your scheduled pickup time. Drivers will wait no longer than 5 minutes after the scheduled pickup time. We do pickup service on most of the hotels of the area. Please contact us with your hotel´s name to assign a meeting point.

Experience

Itinerary

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    3 pickup location options:

    Riviera Maya, Tulum, Playa del Carmen

  • Bus / coach

    (3 hours)

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    Rio Lagartos Biosphere Reserve

    Guided tour (2 hours)

    Extra fee

  • Bus / coach

    (20 minutes)

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    Las Coloradas

    Guided tour (1.5 hours)

    Extra fee

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    Río Lagartos

    Lunch (1 hour)

    Extra fee

  • Bus / coach

    (3 hours)

  • 3 drop-off locations:

    Riviera Maya, Tulum, Playa del Carmen

Main stop

For reference only. Itineraries are subject to change.

Highlights

  • Explore the beautiful canals of Rio Lagartos
  • Relax with a traditional Mayan Bath
  • Wild animal observation
  • Enjoy a local lunch
  • Observe bird species in their native habitat

Full description

Visit Rio Lagartos, a small fishing village in a Nature Reserve and one of the natural treasures of the Yucatan Peninsula on a guided day trip.

Enjoy a boat tour through its water canals surrounded by mangroves, where you can observe a variety of species of birds such as pink flamingos, herons, eagles, seagulls, pelicans, and cormorants. During the tour, pass under the bridge of Las Coloradas in bike (Depends on avalablity) to get to the salt deposits and see different bodies of water involved in this process, some of which an eye-catching pink. Then, enjoy a Mayan Bath, covering the body in nutrient-rich clay. Next, head to an unspoiled beach to remove the clay in the crystal-clear water. Finally, enjoy a lunch of local fish-and-shellfish-based food.

Includes

  • Bilingual guide
  • Boat ride to Rio Lagartos
  • Visit to Las Coloradas Park
  • Mayan bath
  • Free time at the beach
  • Meal (fish, chicken, and vegetarian options) with 1 bottled drink
  • Coloradas views from the boat
  • 2 bottles of water during transfers
  • Surcharge of 800 MXN per person (entry fees and eco-taxes)
  • Tips

Not suitable for

  • Children under 5 years
  • Pregnant women
  • People with heart problems
  • Wheelchair users
  • People with animal allergies
  • People over 70 years
  • People with insect allergies

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Important information

What to bring

  • Swimwear
  • Change of clothes
  • Towel
  • Passport or ID card, copy accepted

Not allowed

  • Luggage or large bags
  • Drones
  • Alcohol and drugs

Know before you go

  • The Coloradas pink color fades depending on the weather
  • Participants should be able to walk on uneven terrain
  • * We inform you that due to salt extraction works currently underway in the town of Las Coloradas, the usual pink color visibility is limited.
  • Therefore, until further notice, visits to the tourist stop "Las Coloradas" will not be conducted. Consequently, we will be conducting tours of the lagoons from the estuary via the nautical route on boats to allow for distant enjoyment of their colors.
  • Please consult your physician if you suffer from motion sickness and ask for a preventive pill
  • Activity starting time is different than your pickup time. Please disregard GetYourGuide's notifications and attend to the confirmation email sent by the activity provider
  • Guests must pay a fee of $650 MXN per person for entry, rentals, boat transportation, eco-taxes, protected area tax, waste management taxes, and handling.

Customer reviews

Overall rating

4.5 /5

based on 56 reviews

Review summary

  • Transportation
    4.4/5
  • Value for money
    4.2/5

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GetYourGuide traveler – GermanyJanuary 7, 2023  – Verified booking
It was a great tour and it matched my imagination. I know with the pink water it’s always depending on many conditions, but I gut really lucky! Our Tour guide Jose was very helpful in explaining everything about the animals, the pink lakes and he told us some of the Mayan culture. Definitely recommend this tour!
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GetYourGuide traveler – PortugalJanuary 6, 2023  – Verified booking
The tour was very well organized and it was very nice. - the guide, Carlos, was very friendly and he was worried that everyone was good. I particularly liked him because he was calm and not pushy - las coloradas: it is interesting place, the guided there don’t speak English very well, but I asked a lady for an explanation in Spanish and it was nice. It is a cute place for pictures. - los lagartos was super super nice. The boat ride was fun and our boat driver eas the best, gave us explanations and showed us the animals in many perspectives. We saw eagles, pelicanos, two crocodiles (2 different species, and we got really really close to it, it was incredible to be so close in the wild life), flamingos and other birds. - the food was very nice, quite simple but good, and the place looks typical but well assorted. - the transport is a bit long but I believe it is worth the drive. It was comfortable. Also, this tour you are not scammed into gift shops and this tourist traps
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Emma – United KingdomDecember 19, 2022  – Verified booking
Quite a long day of going from Riviera Maya, but so worth it! It was around 3-3.5hrs travelling. So about 6hrs travelling in total. We got taken halfway by one driver then swapped minibuses to join the main tour guide. The tour was only 3 couples, so pretty small and intimate. All parts of the tour were well organised, well timed and well executed. Lunch was fab. The little town we were in was quiet and quaint. The pink lakes were pretty cool, and made for some fab pics. The last stop was a cenote (of course!), the one we went to was quiet, with only a few people and there was a bit of a ledge which meant you could get in without having to go fully in. The cenote was inside a massive natural park type thing, so even if you didn’t want to swim you could walk around and enjoy the scenery/ nature. Would definitely recommend this tour, but do be mindful that it is LONG! If you are making dinner reservations that day, make sure they are late!
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