Yucatán Nature & Cultural Experience Guide

Responsibilities

• Lead Celestún flamingo reserve boat tours — colonial port town, flamingo lagoon ecology, mangrove ecosystems, petrified forest
• Guide cenote excursions in the northern Yucatán — Cuzamá railway cenotes, Dzonot cenote, Homún cenote circuit
• Lead Hacienda tours of Yucatán — henequén era hacienda history, sisal production, Yucatecan social history
• Coordinate Mérida food and market tours — Mercado Lucas de Gálvez, Yucatecan cuisine culture, cochinita pibil origins
• Provide bird-watching guidance at Celestún and Ría Lagartos

Requirements

• Knowledge of Yucatán ecological sites — Celestún, Ría Lagartos, cenote systems
• Genuine interest in Yucatecan cultural heritage — hacienda history, regional cuisine, henequén industry
• Excellent English
• SECTUR certification or in progress
• Water safety for cenote excursion formats

Benefits

• IMSS, Aguinaldo, vacation + premium
• Tips

Work environment

Celestún Reserve, Yucatán cenotes, colonial haciendas, and Mérida markets. The nature and culture guide in Mérida works in one of Mexico's most ecologically and historically layered landscapes.

About the role

The guide to the other Yucatán. While most visitors come for the ruins, the Mérida guide who takes tourists to a hacienda where henequén rope was once produced by indentured Maya labor — who then drives them to Celestún to watch 30,000 flamingos turn a lagoon pink at sunset — who ends the day with cochinita pibil at a market stall in Mérida centro — has provided a complete Yucatán that no archaeology-only tour achieves.