Celestun, Merida

Celestun is located 96 kilometres from Merida westward. This beautiful fishing port is really picturesque. The port offers everything the visitor needs for a pleasant stay: hotels, restaurants, loncherias, pharmacies and grocery stores well stocked.
Recently the Eco Paraiso Hotel opened, with "environmental facilities" in an environment with cabanas, pools and restaurant naturists.
In Celestun you can find extensive beaches full of coconut trees. The sea is calm and clear water. The boats of the fishermen provide a typical picture of the Yucatan coast. The sunset in Celestun is another gift of nature to be enjoyed. The old lighthouse tilted, which is located near the fishing pier, is firm, yet defies the laws of physics to the amazement of visitors, who have found this watch another symbol of Celestun.
The walks along the river are recruited in the post that leads to Celestun. Each boat carries 4 to 8 persons, depending on the tide. Often the guides, ready for the tourist is a good time and ignorance, get too close to the flamingos, which adversely affect them. Please do not ask the guides that are too close, and if they are, have them go away. Please take care of the fragile ecosystem of the Flemish, they will go or, worse, will die.
Celestun Nature Reserve is one of the most important protected areas of the country due to the large number of local and migratory birds found there.
Flamenco has become distinctive figure Celestun, where there are large numbers of these birds, which can be found every day of the year in the estuary.
In addition, the port operates Lancheros the United Federation of Celestun, whose members are dedicated especially for visitors to walk through all the points of the estuary and coast.

The boatmen of the river walk offers two options the northern route, which includes a visit to the area where flamingos nest, tour of the mangroves and the waterhole, and the South, which includes visits to the Petrified Forest, to Punta Pelican and former San Joaquin ranch coconut.
A person who wishes to know them all would take two weeks of daily walks, abounds. Among others are the area of crocodiles, birds and areas of salt ponds.
The eye Baldiosera is the greatest concentration of freshwater into the mangroves. It has small springs and passages through which visitors can access the site. The crystal clear, refreshing waters beckon the traveller to take a dip. Across the river lies the Petrified Forest, an area worthy of the creativity of an artist the dead trees give way to surrealistic images, capricious, where time seems to stand still.
Among the most picturesque traditions of Celestun is the annual celebration of the port, which is in honour of the Virgin of Conception and is conducted in the early days of December. During the feast were celebrated traditional dairies as well as parades of boats at sea headed for the image of the Virgin.
The hotel restaurants offer wide range of dishes based on fish and seafood, salads, ceviche and drinks.
The visitors are available in all these restaurants, in addition to traditional fried fish, shrimp cocktail, octopus, conch and crab, as well as orders of the same seafood ceviche.
Orders are also available casseroles crab, octopus, and conch in garlic sauce, sauteed, Mexican; breaded shrimp, in garlic and grilled, and crab hands.