Mexico Lindo Restaurant offers an international a la carte menu with Mexican specialties and snacks, as well as delicious seafood dishes. Among them, I recommend the ceviche of octopus, shellfish in garlic sauce, fish fillet and squid sautéed with mushrooms and garlic light sauce. Yummy, yummy a feast for the palate!
La Cocina del Pueblo, a la carte restaurant that offers Mexican cuisine with typical Yucatecan specialties like soup, Lima, Tikina-Xic Fish (Grouper fillet seasoned with lime, tomatoes and peppers, wrapped in banana leaves).
If you want an express lunch, La Terraza is a fast food outdoors that serves burgers, hot dogs and tacos.
The Grill is also a fast food place but for meat lovers, where you can delight in a good cut of flank steak (arrachera), New York or a Sirloin.
La Torta is right at the entrance of Xel-Ha Park and off the ice cream shop. It serves a wide variety of delicious mixed tortas (a kind of Mexican sandwich).
The Bridge Bar is the ideal place to sit and relax and enjoy a delicious cocktail while admiring the unparalleled sights of the cove.
The ice-cream parlors – There are two ice cream parlors, one, at the entrance of the park and another in “El Pueblito“, next to the kitchen of the village, where you can cool off with delicious ice creams, popcicles and drinks.

The Chacah´s garden is a space in Xel Ha Park , where during the past three years important personalities surrounded by extraordinary mysticism have planted a native tree called Chacah, leaving a personal thought or message with the purpose of creating consciousness for Earth´s natural resources care. So that society may join in the endeavor to preserve the environment, for the benefit and enjoyment of coming generations. Each tree that is planted in Xel Ha Park stays as a living testimony that will help other people understand the essence of this movement.

This event takes place in Xel Ha Natural Park on the first Saturday following the world Tree Day every year, this year it was held on July 11th. It is a ceremony that is framed by the local legend of Kinich (sun’s face) and Dzic (fury), two Mayan princes who fell in love with the same princess: Nicte Ha. They fought each other for the princess’s love, but the gods doomed them to live forever next to each other, turned into trees. Chechen and Chacah are the names of these two trees that grow always together and can be found all over the Yucatan Peninsula.

Earth is a shared responsibility and everyone can contribute to reverting natures’ deterioration. What do you think? When you visit Xel Ha Park, with Xel Ha Entrance Tickets you are actually contributing with the environment’s care. Ask your travel agent for Xel Ha Tours. There ares some diffrent available options.

Xel Ha Natural Park is located in the Riviera Maya, 60 minutes drive from Cancun, 25 minutes from Playa del Carmen and 15 minutes from Tulum, Mexico. In the kilometer 240 of the highway Chetumal-Cancun.

If you are not taking any of the tours to Xel Ha You can rent a car or take public transportation that goes to the Xel Ha Park.

From Cancun: Go to the bus station located in the center and take a bus heading to Tulum. Ask the driver to drop you off at the Xel Ha Park, he will know. Xel Ha Natural Park is only a 5 minute-walk from the main entrance on the highway.

To return to Cancun: Get a bus on the highway or a public minivan towards the bus station in Playa del Carmen.

From the Riviera Maya: We recommend you to take a taxi or rent a car.

From Cozumel: Take the ferry towards Playa del Carmen. 

Cozumel ferry service: Beach Cozumel – Cozumel Beach
05:00 a.m. – 02:00 p.m. 06:00 a.m. – 03:00 p.m.
07:00 a.m. – 04:00 p.m. 08:00 a.m. – 05:00 p.m.
08:00 a.m. – 05:00 p.m. 09:00 a.m. – 06:00 p.m.
09:00 a.m. – 06:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. – 07:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. – 08:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. – 09:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. 01:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

The round-trip tickets to Xel Ha costs about $ 180.00 pesos. Schedules and prices are subject to change without notice, so we recommend you verify this information to avoid inconveniences.

From Playa del Carmen: two blocks away from the pier, there is the central bus station. The tickets to Xel Ha cost $ 40.00 per person and the bus leaves at 09:20 am and 10:30 a.m.
The bus will drop you off on the road,  a 5 minute-walk from Xel Ha Park Entrance. To get back on the bus, you have to take it at 04:45 pm on the same road.

You can take a taxi in front of the bus station back to your place of departure. The taxi charges about $ 350.00 to $ 400.00 pesos each way and carries from 3 to 4 passengers with luggage.

Xel Ha Park opens from 8:30 hrs. to 17:00 hrs.