About a half-hour drive from Valladolid, a colonial town in Yucatan State, this is probably the most renowned of archaeological zones in the Yucatan Peninsula, boasting a myriad of edifices that constituted one of the most important social, commercial, and religious centers of pre-hispanic Mexico.

Cancun has a direct highway towards Merida that passes through Valladolid. From Xel-Ha, however, it is best to take the federal highway towards Tulum, and then drive past Chemax until arriving at Valladolid and the nearby ruins.