Akumal Snorkeling: An Intimate Encounter with Sea Turtles in Their Natural Habitat

Experience an intimate encounter with sea turtles in their natural habitat during an Akumal snorkeling adventure. Discover their behavior, diet, and more while exploring a protected marine area.

Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Centro Ecológico Akumal - Akumal is the “Place of the Turtles” in the Mayan language.

We participate as local guides Martín and Melqui, and we will be happy to accompany you to swim with turtles.

Akumal Bay is a protected natural area, for this reason we will follow the animal protection regulations. We will snorkel and swim with white and green turtles, colorful fish, coral reef, hopefully rays, squid, and barracudas.

We are local guides, we will take care of you all the time and seek to share this beautiful experience in a sustainable and safe way. Our goal is to show visitors how to respect marine life in our Akumal community and at the same time be able to give them an unforgettable experience with sea turtles.

What's Included
  • Access to bathrooms, showers, changing rooms, and lockers.
  • Private bracelet for beach and turtle protected area access.
  • Unlimited GoPro photos.
  • Snorkeling gear provided, including visor, vest, and snorkel tube.
What's Not Included
  • Parking
Additional Information

Immerse yourself in the underwater world of sea turtles in their protected environment, well-loved and nurtured. We’ll encounter these magnificent creatures in a unique way, gaining insights into their diet, lifespan, size, and behaviors. We will venture into a safeguarded natural region, where we might also get to see various other marine life including rays, fish, squid, and barracudas.

Location
C. 16 100, Lote 001
Calle 16
"The 7 eleven store."
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Joanne
Aug 20, 2024
Tomsof action and adventure whit turtles and denotes - It was the best swiming in my life. I' m so happy I did it. Highly recomend for friends and family. But not only the turtles, the cenote nohoch was super nice whit tons of action and adventure. Thank very much to Gonzalo the tour guide and the company BLUE. CARIBE.
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Ewoutj2020
Aug 17, 2024
Fun Snorkeling with Local Guide - Super experience! Friendly Guide Martin guided us with lots of info and could interestingly answer our questions. With great respect for nature and the animals nicely snorkeled between baby squid and beautiful turtles. Nice to do with a small group and hire a local Guide of Akumal.
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Pranay
Jul 27, 2024
Had a great time. Recommend doing this trip in Akumal. - It was a good one; seen stingrays, 4-5 turtles. The guide explained a bit but could have made it better by staying a bit close to the group.
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R6227lssilvanat
Jul 27, 2024
Must do - Excellent experience, we had the chance to see several turtles and a stingray! Accessible from the beach, which is a plus!
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Olgabc2136ss
Jul 18, 2024
It was great! - The guide (Martin) is super friendly, explains everything very well in English. He made a real effort to look for turtles, but also in such a way that we did not always have to swim with other tourists in the crowd, but had them to ourselves. He always alerted us to all interesting creatures in the water. He also gave us the time to look at them and it was all not too fast but just right. He treats the animals very respectfully and expects it from the others. Bonus: the trip was almost private: there were only 4 of us, in the end the other couple went out of the water because they were not well. This allowed the two of us to observe a turtle completely alone for almost 10x min and the rest of the trip was practically private. Was of course our luck:)
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Alexandra_b
Jun 15, 2024
Amazing experience - Amazing experience ! We were only a group of three people plus the guide, who did a great job. I saw turtles, different fishes and little rays. Simply magnificent to watch Thank you !
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Banannal
May 24, 2024
Highly recommend - Martin and his colleague has made this an incredible experience with amazing photos! The planning/booking of the trip was clear on Whatsapp, and they were clear in their instructions amidst the chaotic welcome/change room area (where dozens of groups and hundreds of people are doing the same experience), on what's safe to do and how to enjoy the experience responsibly. The turtles are unbothered by the crowds and are always at peace which is something for us humans to learn lol and truly inspirational. We saw a lot of fish and sting rays, and quite a few turtles! Martin helped with the locker deposit and even talked on the phone for me in Spanish to arrange transport when our tour ended in an unexpected rain storm. When our photos expired after the 7 days on WeTransfer, Martin even re-uploaded/transferred the photos with no questions asked. Definitely recommend anything to do this tour with them :)!
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P7637ceanap
May 21, 2024
Akumal 10-10 - Highly recommended experience, Miguel, our guide, very patient, explains everything very well, looks for the animals to show us. 10-10
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Jacque_l
May 16, 2024
Book this tour!! - Five star experience! Our guide Martin was really great and made me feel safe while swimming in the ocean, which I normally don't do! The original date of the tour actually got cancelled due to unsafe wave conditions and Martin let us rebook the next day no problem. It is so cool that Martin takes photos of you with the go pro. We saw lots of turtles up close as well as coral and fish!!
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Nicole_p
May 16, 2024
Amazing Experience! Highly Recommend! - Awesome Experience! Would highly recommend! I did a ton of research about which tour to pick and eventually picked this one. I liked that it included photos and was a small (max 6 ppl) or private group. Some of the groups we saw were quite large... and we definitely would not have enjoyed our experience as much in a large group. They also had great communication through WhatsApp to prepare and coordinate for the experience. Our guide was Melqui, who did an awesome job! We had a group who needed both English and Spanish communication, and Melqui helped to communicate so everyone understood and felt included. We had a private group of four, which included 3 adults and one 13 year old. One of our members did not know how to swim, and Melqui was gracious enough to pull him around on the lifesaver during the entire outing so he could be involved. We also loved the photos Melqui took that were included with the experience. The only thing I would recommend is considering bringing your own snorkel. They provide masks and snorkels, but the snorkels are a basic tube (which will let water in). I had bought a dry snorkel (does not let water in) which I felt was very helpful and made for a more enjoyable experience. While the other members of my group used the basic tube ones provided. We went early in the morning (8:30am) which is the first tour, which i would highly recommend to avoid crowds and heat.
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