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Chichén Itzá - Introduction to the Walking Tour

by Dorothy and Bill Bell

Chichén Itzá is the most visited archeological sites in Mexico. It is busy and full of tourists, vendors and service suppliers. We strongly recommend you visit the site as soon as it opens as there is less people and the sun is not directly overhead.

If you are driving, you enter the gate and pay the fee for parking – currently 220 pesos. The buses and taxi’s drop passengers off at this location.

You enter the large open entrance building and pay your entrance fee to the left. You then proceed through the building and pay the state fee to enter the site. You then proceed towards the turnstiles and give both tickets to the attendant.

The main entrance has many types of services. It has a coat/parcel check, washrooms, coffee cafe, bank machine, bookstore, restaurant and small museum.

The walking route we recommend is to explore in the following order:

1) Entrance

2) The Castle - El Castillo

3) The Ball Court

4) The Temple of the Tiger

5) The Platform of the Skulls

6) The Platform of the Eagles

7) The Chacmool

8) The Sacred Cenote

9) Temple of the Tables

10) Group of a Thousand Columns

11) The Steam Bath and Marketplace

12) Cenote Xtoloc

13) Tomb of the High Priest

14) House of the Grinding Stone

15) House of the Deer

16) Red House

17) Observatory

18) tTemple of the Pannels

19) The Church

 
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