Mexico Guide
The Yucatán
Chichén Itzá
Chichén Itzá, the most famous, the most extensively restored and by far the most visited of all Maya sites, lies conveniently along Hwy-180 from Mérida to Cancún, about 120km from Mérida and a little more than 200km from the Caribbean coast. A fast and very regular bus service runs all along this road, making it perfectly feasible to visit as a day's excursion from Mérida, or en route from Mérida to the coast (or even as a day out from Cancún, as many tour buses do). The site, though, deserves better, and both to do the ruins justice and to see them when they're not utterly trammelled by tourists, an overnight stop is well worth considering – either at the site itself or, less extravagantly, in the nearby village of Pisté or in Valladolid, which is both convenient and inexpensive.
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