Cobá

Cobá was one of the largest Maya cities, with perhaps fifty thousand inhabitants at its height, and it has largely stayed under the jungle. You move along sacbés, the raised white stone causeways that linked the cities — the one from Cobá to Yaxuná runs a hundred kilometres.

The groups of ruins are kilometres apart: you hire a bicycle or a triciclo at the gate, and that is the right way to do it. Climbing the Nohoch Mul pyramid has been closed since 2020.