We start and end this CHALLENGE difficulty tour in Mérida. Highlights include flamingos, Mayan ruins and modern Mayan villages, colonial towns and cities, cenotes and caves. We'll see parts of the Yucatan that tourists never visit. This tour can be linked with "Yucatan's Beaches and Ruins" before it to make a 4½ week tour, or with "Yucatan to the Clouds" after it to make a 6 week tour.
Archive note: NEW in 2003. No tour pages survive; known only from tours listings. Merida-based backroads loop; concept was reworked into Roaming Backroads Yucatan. Route stats recovered from the bikemexico.com Wayback archive (the 2003 toy.intro page).
Dates:
Sun. Feb. 2, 2003 to Sun. Feb. 16, 2003 (2 weeks)
Price:
US$835 (that year's published approximate total land cost)
Riders:
5 cyclists (from the company client database)
What it cost that season
Guides' Fee
+ Accommodations
+ Food & Drink
+ Misc.
= Approx. Total Land Cost
$400
$115
$170
$150
$835
All figures in US dollars, as published at the time. Riders paid their own accommodation, food and entrance fees on the road — the Guides' Fee was the only charge from ¡El Tour. Full history: price of The Other Yucatan through the years.