• Enjoy an amazing day on the lagoon of 7 colors! Only with SANTI TOURS you get 4 hours instead of 2!
  • kids 12 years up and adults                         190 USD / 170 EUR
  • kids 0 to 3 years                                                      45 USD / 40 EUR
  • kids 4 to 11 years                                               140 USD / 125 EUR
  • Day trip according to the above program
  • Personal care by Santi Tour guides
  • Pick up from your hotel or meeting point
  • Ride with a certified driver in a comfortable, fully insured, and air-conditioned minivan
  • Tour guide in English 
  • Cool drinks in the bus (soft drinks, water, beer)
  • Big breakfast in the restaurant in Bacalar
  • Guided tour to the fort and museum of San Felipe with view over the bay and the pirates channel
  • About 4 hours guided boat tour with swimming stops in crystal clear and shallow water
  • Bathing in different center
  • Exfoliating massage with mineral mud in the pirates channel
  • Swimming and fun in the pirates channel with music and drinks
  • Fresh made "Cuba libre" cocktails
  • Homemade brick oven pizza in the restaurant 
  • All photos / videos of this tour are free of charge as a gift from us!
  • Free Wi-Fi on almost all tours in our minivans (whenever network is available on the routes)
  • Parking fees / tolls
  • Return to your hotel lobby or meeting point
  • all photos / videos of this tour are free of charge as a gift from us! 
  • minimum participants: 8 personas
  • maximum participants: 16 Personen
  • duration: approximately 16 horas
  • difficulty: easy
  • age recommendation: 0 to 80 years
  • information about country and people
  • nature 
  • Mexican food & cocktails
  • swimming & relaxing

  • We drive from Playa del Carmen south to Bacalar, the Lagoon of the 7 colors. You can still sleep a while on the bus until we arrive. The town of Bacalar was founded by the Mayans in 415 A.C. I's original name was "Bakhalal" and it was the first town taken by the Conquistadores in 1543. The Spanish called the city "Salamanca de Bacalar". When arriving in Bacalar we enjoy a big breakfast with fresh fruit, coffee and juice with a fantastic view over the market place
  • Thereafter we explore the history of pirate fort San Felipe. Experience the history of the pirates on a guided tour through the ancient walls and the small museum. The Mexican people built it in 1723 to protect themselves from pirates who raided the place several times, kidnapping the Mayan women, and bringing them to Isla Mujeres. The panoramic view over the cannon guns on the opposite channel of the pirates is uniquely beautiful and brings up memories of old films. There, you can look down onto the freshwater lake, which is 55 km long and 2 km wide. The water is, in some places, only 20 cm deep and the ground has a fantastic, fine, sandy, and white texture. This shimmers in 7 different shades of turquoise. It is a paradise on earth, like the shore of the Maldives, with it’s many thatched rood huts
  • Afterwards, we will go to the shore of the lagoon and enjoy the beauty of the Lagoon of the 7 colors and their different cenotes on a 4-hour relaxed pontoon (flat boat) boat trip with various bathing stops in the turquoise waters. You will quickly arrive into another world, just let your mind wander. We will drive past beautiful villas to the bird island, where we can even experience Storks with luck. There are many Frigate birds, Herons, Spoonbills, and Cormorants in the wild. A breathtaking, beautiful, spectacle of colors
  • Continue through the lagoon until you reach a narrow channel that flows into the Caribbean Sea, the "Canal de los Piratas" (Pirate Channel). We will drop the anchor and stay in the knee-deep, dreamy clear, turquoise-colored, fresh water for bathing, relaxing, and having fun. Rubbing each other with healing mud is extremely fun and the mood is always exuberant. Afterwards we wash everything off in the turquoise clear water (the brave ones can jump from a platform into the water). Together we will enjoy the time aboard the boats or in the water, take unforgettable photos, have drinks with music, and good moods. Let´s dance!  
  • After hearing and learning about many exciting pirate stories and having fun bathing experiences in the lakes and cenotes, we will then enjoy fresh stone oven pizza at the restaurant. On the way home to Playa del Carmen, let us treat ourselves to one or more drinks on the bus. 
  • Pirates of the Caribbean? Or a feeling like Maldives? Or both? 7 different tones of turquoise and cristal clear freshwater invite us to swim and relax - enjoy the magic of the lagoon with us!
  • Together we walk around the center of Bacalar and experience the history of the little town. We give lots of info about what happened here back in the days and we take some photos in front of the BACALAR sign. Thereafter we walk into the fort of San Felipe and get the first breathtaking view over the lagoon - also called Maldives of Mexico. Inside we learn about the history of the fort, it's inhabitants and their fights with the pirates back in the days
  • Our exclusive restaurant only welcomes daily guest and our group. We have our own table with a nice view and stunning food and drinks

 

  • On this tour we invest even more in food and drinks. In our restaurant in the morning we enjoy different, typical Mexican breakfast plates with fresh fruit, coffee, marmalade, sometimes waffles and fresh juices. On our boat you will enjoy fresh mixed Bacardi cocktails and we also have our cool box full with beer, soft drinks and water. In the evening we will get maybe the best handmade pizza of the region with typical Mexican drinks. Salud!
  • In the turquoise water or also on the boat - we do our little photo shootings with you and you can take home all your memories!
  • Personal expenses (e.g. for souvenirs, restroom, etc.) Please have small change in MXN or USD
  • Coffee or tea at the coffee stop
  • More or different drinks in the restaurant
  • Tips in general (tour guide, driver, waitress, etc.)
  • photo packages cost lots of money in Mexico - you can spend easyle 100 to 200 USD and what you get are around 20 pictures of the whole group
  • with SANTI TOURS you will get a big picture (and sometimes also video) package with sometimes 100 to 600 photos - depending in the tour and our guest. In the tours Holbox EXCLUSIVE and BACALAR EXCLUSIVE we implement little photoshootings  with you
  • Please note, we are no professional photographers and we do our best to get beautiful pictures. Normally tour guides never take photos
  • We normally take our photos with cellphones, as we are not allowed to uses cameras in lots of places like temples and ruins. As tour guides it is officially forbidden to take pictures
  • attention: please do also take your own pictures and do not rely on us with all pictures - you will have you own ideas of photos and it also can be a damage on a cellphone or pictures. Please never forget, our photo package is additional and free - a gift from SANTI TOURS to you
  • some days after tour we upload all our material with a link in our WhatsApp group. You got time to download all photos and videos, also at home. The link and the group will be deleted after 4 weeks. Later it's not possible to get back any photos
  • The payment of our tours can be done in CASH the day of the tour. We accept US Dollars, Mexican Pesos, or Euro (at the current daily exchange rate). It is not possible to pay with credit card or bank transfer
  • We ask for your understanding, just for the fairness of the other guests, we cannot drive to any banks or ATMs to exchange or withdraw money
  • Pick up at the lobbies of all hotels in Playa del Carmen to the center of Tulum (not hotel zone Tulum). Please, let us know before booking about the location or name of your hotel.
  • Hotels in Cancun, Puerto Morelos, and before Playa del Carmen: Pick-up at the meeting point Colectivo terminal in Playa del Carmen.
  • The transfer to Playa del Carmen or the meeting point  must be made by a taxi,as the pick-up is before the start of the Colectivo times
  • The driving time to Bacalar is about 3.5 hours from the center of Playa del Carmen (depending on traffic and without pick-ups). You can still sleep on the bus until we arrive relaxed for a big breakfast in the morning. The tour is not expected to end before 8 pm to 9 pm. Please note this with your tour planning.
  • No waves or swells as this is a lagoon, also suitable for people with seasickness!
  • We kindly ask you to protect our reefs, cenotes and animals by avoiding sunscreen. They have a big impact of the damage of nature, even if it's biodegradable. Please use special Lycra shirts with UV protection instead
  • our tour is also suitable for children. Please bring swimming aids!
  • Life jackets are mandatory on boats in Mexico
  • This tour is a full day tour! It begins around 5 am, and the return to Playa del Carmen is around 8 pm to 9 pm  (depending on traffic, weather, events, etc.). However, we can not guarantee this
  • Bikini / swimming trunks
  • sandals
  • towel
  • hat !!! 
  • sun lotion - better shirt with sun protection !!!
  • camera / cellphone