BEE TOUR

• Departure:
  Pasamos por usted de personalizada de acuerdo a sus preferencias de hora y lugar de salida en Mérida, Se recomienda comenzar a las 7:30 - 8:00 a.m.
• Duration:
  10-12 horas aproximadamente hours approximately.
• Prices:
  Contact us for a personalized quote. Includes entrances to the melipona and european bee apiary (protection suit, candle making workshop and honey tasting), to the boat tour and salt pund. No meals included.

We will visit an apiary in the town of Sinanche, (as an option, we can have breakfast in Motul, place of motuleños egs) later in Sinanche we will be beekeepers for a few hours, we are going to be able to visit Europena and Meliona hives to learn mora about how the bees work and all the products that they produce in the hive. Later we will visit San Crisanto where we will navigate the Ria in a boat to see a great variety of species of birds, crocodiles and fish, the place is beautiful, then we can enjoy the beach and delicious food from the Yucatecan coast. On the way back to merida we will visit ths salt pounds by Xcambo archeologicla site . Full day trip :). Food not included.

Honey production in the Yucatan Peninsula is not a new issue. For centuries, and since the heyday of the Mayan culture, they had the necessary knowledge to take advantage of the ecosystem that surrounded them. One of the most important economic activities in the region was meliponiculture (cultivation of the stingless bee). Honey and wax were extracted to be marketed together with other agricultural crops. The honey that is most consumed in the country comes from the Peninsula (including Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo) and although it sounds surprising, 95% of all production is exported abroad; then the amount of honey exported by the Peninsula is equivalent to 10,000 tons per year.
There are different types of honey that are produced in the region and they can be differentiated according to their flavor and color. And this is due to a very special fact: bees consume the nectar of different flowers or plants; in the state of Yucatán, bees usually take the nectar of 9 different plants.