Located 96 kilometers from Merida westward. This beautiful fishing village is really picturesque. The port offers everything the visitor needs for a pleasant stay. Hotels, restaurants, snack bars, pharmacies and well-stocked grocery stores recently opened Hotel Eco Paraiso, with "green facilities" in an environment with cottages, pools and naturist restaurant.

In Celestun can be found riddled extensive beaches with coconut trees. The sea is calm and clear water. Fishermen boats offer a typical picture of the Yucatan coast. The sunset in Celestun is another gift of nature to be enjoyed. The old leaning lighthouse, which is located near the fishing pier, stands firm; still defies the laws of physics to the amazement of the visitors found this watch another symbol of Celestun.

The river trips are hired in the position which gives access to Celestun. Each boat carries of 4-8 people, depending on the tide. Often the guides, wanting to make the tourist a good time and ignorance, is too close to the flamingos, which negatively affected. Please do not ask the guides that come too close, and if they are, ask to stay away. If you do not care for the fragile ecosystem of the Flemish, they will leave or, worse, die.

The nature reserve of Celestun is one of the most important protected areas of the country due to the large number of native and migratory birds that houses. Flamenco has become distinctive figure of Celestun, where there are plenty of these birds, which can be found every day of the year in the estuary.

In addition, the port Boatmen Federation works Celestun, whose members are engaged. especially visitors to walk through all the points of the estuary and the coast of the estuary Boatmen offer two tour options: the Northern route, which includes a visit to the area nesting flamingos, mangroves and tour waterhole, and the South, which includes visits to the petrified forest, Pelican Point and old coconut ranch San Joaquin. The person who wants to know all need two weeks of daily walks.

Among others are the area of crocodiles, bird areas and salt ponds. The "eye Baldiosera" is the largest concentration of fresh water in the mangrove. It has small springs and passages through which visitors can access the site. The crystal clear, refreshing waters invite the traveler to take a dip. Across the river the Petrified Forest is located, a living space of creativity of an artist: the dry trees shape surreal, whimsical images, where time seems to stand still.

Among the most colorful traditions of Celestun is the annual festival of the port, which is in honor of the Virgen de la Concepción and takes place in the first days of December. During the party held traditional parades dairies and boats at sea led by the image of the Virgin. The hotel restaurants offer wide range of dishes based on fish and seafood, salads, ceviches and drinks. Visitors have available at all these restaurants, besides the traditional fried fish, shrimp cocktails, octopus, conch and crab, as well as orders of the same seafood ceviche. orders stews crab, octopus, snail are also offered (at mojo garlic, fried, Mexico); breaded shrimp with garlic and grilled, and crab hands.

Known for its amazing flamingo-filled lagoon, Celestún, at the end of a sandbar on the peninsula’s northwest coast would be little more than a one-boat fishing village. To see the birds most numerous from November to May, when blue-winged teal and shovellers also migrate in the warm waters of the 146,000-acre Ría Celestún Biosphere Reserve, hire a boat at the official parador turístico, just past the bridge on the main road into town. Ask the bus driver to drop you here, as it’s a twenty-minute walk back from the main square. The standard tour (up to six; approx 1hr) stops at the flamingo feeding grounds and a freshwater spring amid mangroves; the longer trip (up to six; approx 2hr) also visits a “petrified forest”. Guides (1hr, 2hr) are definitely recommended all speak English and can identify most of the birds you’ll see. If you’d like to join a larger group, show up around 10am, as that’s when most people arrive, usually on the 8am bus from Mérida.

By Road:

Celestun, 90 kilometers west of Merida and 210 kilometers from the city of Campeche, on the Gulf of Mexico. The site can easily reached by rented car. From Merida just follow Highway 281 to Campeche, or from Campeche, take Highway 180 north.

If you’re travelling by car, you might be tempted by the small road south to Chunchucmil, rather than the straight highway back to Mérida. Don’t its colossally potholed and very slow going for most vehicles.

By Bus:

From the Northeast 2nd class terminal, located at 50th Street 67 in central Mérida; There are departures from 6 in the morning and almost every hour until 14 hr. the bus costs $ 70 pesos and takes 2 and a half hours to arrive.

Buses for Celestún depart sixteen times daily from Mérida’s Noreste terminal beginning at 5.15am; the trip takes about two hours.