Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is peppered with a number of Mayan archeological sites that are located within relatively easy reach from Cancun. It you are staying in a hotel in Cancun or Riviera Maya, you can book many comfortable organized tours with your concierge or private tour agencies.
The pre-Columbian Mayan Civilization populated what are now the southern states of Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula in addition to Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and northern San Salvador and has left a mystical legacy of temples and pyramids in the form of Mayan ruins.