Diving tour in Yucatan

• The best time is from December to February, when bull sharks and sailfish come to the Yucatan, and from June to August, when you can swim with whale sharks.

• Duration of the program: 14 days (can be changed at the request of the customer)

• Start and end of the program: Cancun (Mexico)

• Number of participants: up to 12

Travel program

Day 1: Arrival in Cancun. Rent a car or minivan, depending on the number of participants in the group. It is possible to rent a car with a driver. Transfer to Tulum, accommodation in a private villa in Tulum. The villa has a kitchen, swimming pool, grill, parking.

Days 2 - 4: Tulum - Cenotes. Cenote diving program. For certified cave divers - rental of double divers and dives with cave guides in the "full cave" mode. For recreational divers - cavern diving. Daily - 2 dives. For those interested, it is possible to take cave courses using the NSS-CDS or UTD systems. Usually the day will start at 7 am, breakfast, at 8 – departure to the caves. Return to the villa around 16:00. Cenotes included in the dive program: 

• Grand Cenote

• Dos Ojos

• Angelite - here a layer of hydrogen sulfide located at a depth of 27 meters creates an incredible optical effect

Day 5: Cancun - Whale Sharks or Sailfish. Depending on the season - swimming with whale sharks (summer), sailfish (winter). The boat goes to sea at 7 o'clock in the morning and returns home at about 4 o'clock. You will spend at least 2 hours swimming in close proximity to animals. The number of animals in a flock can reach several hundred.

Day 6: Playa del Carmen - Bull shark feeding. Transfer to Playa Del Carmen. From November to March, diving with bull sharks is possible. Return to Playa Del Carmen.

Day 7: Chichen Itza. Early in the morning departure to Chichen Itza (the journey takes about 3 hours). Tour of the ancient city. After Chichen Itza, visit the cenote “Ik-Kil” and the city of Ek-Balam. In the evening return to Tulum.

Day 8: Tulum - Xkalak. Excursion to the ancient city of Coba. After lunch, transfer to Xcalac, a small fishing village in the south of the Yucatan Peninsula. Accommodation in an e-lodge on the Caribbean Sea in Xkalaka.

Day 9: Xkalak - Chinchorro Bank. Diving on the Chinchorro Bank (subject to normal weather). Chinchorro Bank is one of the last pristine dive sites in the Western Hemisphere. This reef has been preserved because it is located far from the main tourist sites and requires special permission from the Mexican government to get there. The reef is located approximately 19 miles (31 km) from the village of Shkalak. The sea crossing at Chinchorro Bank can be quite an ordeal for those who suffer from seasickness. If the weather does not allow visiting Chinchorro, we will dive on the Shkalaka reef, where there is also a lot of interesting things.

Day 10: Xkalak - San Pedro (Belize). Transfer to Chetumal. Transfer by sea ferry to San Pedro Island in Belize (1 hour journey). Minivans remain in a guarded parking lot at the port in Chetumal. Arrival in San Pedro, hotel accommodation, rest, restaurants, bars, etc.

Day 11: San Pedro - Big Blue Hall. Early in the morning - going out to sea, going towards the Light House Reef (2-3 hours), 3 dives, one of which is in the Big Blue Hall. The Great Blue Hall is an iconic place for diving enthusiasts. In addition to unusual lighting, negative slopes of the walls, huge stalactites, you can see giant groupers, nurse sharks and some types of reef sharks, for example, the Caribbean reef shark and the blacktip shark. Other sharks, such as the bull shark and hammerhead shark, can also be seen here, but they are not common. Lunch on a desert island, watching birds, crabs and iguanas. Return to San Pedro around 18:00.

Day 12: San Pedro. Free day on San Pedro Island. Options include relaxing on the beach, excursions to the mainland or diving on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. An excursion by helicopter or plane to the blue hole is possible.

Day 13: San Ignacio - Cancun. Early in the morning - return to Chetumal by ferry. Transfer from Chetumal to Cancun. Accommodation at a hotel in the Riviera Maya.

Day 14: Cancun - flight home.