The 4 Self-Guided Audio Tours on the Riviera Maya That Earn Their Price

1.Tulum Mayan Ruins GPS Self-Guided Walking Audio Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 20 reviews · 1 hour (approx.) · from $9Our pick

Explore Tulum’s Maya ruins with a GPS audio tour featuring 28 stories, offline maps, flexible timing, and lifetime access for $9.99.

“Good app and easy to download. We found it best to download when we had wifi and then log out of it (even switch off the phone to remove the blue quick open button top left) so that it didn’t use up all our battery power. Best to take a separate power bank in case your phone runs low. Sometimes the section didn’t play, probably more to do with us not being in the right spot, but easy enough to just click on the list and tap it manually. Really liked the voice of the narrator and the helpful photos.”

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2.Self-Guided Audio Tour – Tulum: The Return Home

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 8 reviews · 1 hour (approx.)

Explore Tulum’s Maya ruins at your own pace with an offline audio guide, character voices, maps, and a low-cost self-guided format.

“The best part about this tour is that it started on our time. There was no rush to meeting up with a group tour with a guide. The price was extremely reasonable too. The downfalls were that the information was sparse, and although they have a clever idea with using actors to act out different characters, there wasn’t a lot of substance or history. Each stop on the tour had a very brief audio that left a lot to be desired. The idea was great, but it can use some tweaking to include more historical and archaeological information.”

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3.Tulum Legends: A Self-Guided Audio Tour of the Ancient Mayan City

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 3 reviews · 40 minutes to 1 hour (approx.) · from $6Best value

Explore Tulum’s Maya ruins with a $6.99 VoiceMap audio tour, offline maps, and flexible pacing from the Educal bookstore to Aldea Canzul.

“We wound up hiring a private guide and did not use the audio however, I had listened to a sample of it when I downloaded it, and it was quite good when we returned to our hotel I thought we might listen to portions of it, but as it turned out, it said that we were 105 km from the starting point”

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4.Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour of Mexico’s Ek Balam

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 3 reviews · 1 hour (approx.) · from $9

Explore Ek Balam at your own pace with a $9.99 offline audio tour covering Ukit Kan Le’k Tok’s tomb, pyramids, walls, and Maya history.

“The tour was excellently made, easy to follow, captivating and informative. All that you can ask of an audio tour. Great value for the price.”

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