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1. Eat Mexico Culinary Tours

Food tours and cooking classesCitywide

A women-owned food tour company founded in 2010, running small-group street food walks, market tours and cooking classes across Mexico City and Puebla.

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2. Scuba Cancún

Dive centre and snorkel toursZona Hotelera

A family-run PADI 5 Star dive centre at kilometre 5 of the Hotel Zone, founded by the first scuba instructor to teach in Cancún.

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3. Culinary Backstreets Mexico City

Food walksCitywide

Small-group culinary walks in the Centro Histórico, Azcapotzalco, Tacubaya and Xochimilco, tasting carnitas, birria, pulque and mezcal with local guides.

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4. Xoxi Cancún

Evening boat party tourCancún-Puerto Morelos highway

Grupo Xcaret's evening fiesta on colourful trajinera boats, with mariachi, an open bar and a tasting dinner of Mexican dishes, south of Cancún.

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5. Arca Tierra Xochimilco Experiences

Chinampa farm and canal experienceXochimilco

Weekend boat trips to a working chinampa in Xochimilco with a regenerative farming network, including sunrise visits, brunches and farm meals on the canals.

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6. Turibus Cancún

Hop-on hop-off bus and day toursZona Hotelera and Downtown

Open-top sightseeing buses covering the Hotel Zone and downtown circuits, plus combined catamaran trips and coach tours to Chichén Itzá.

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7. Aquaworld

Marina and water toursZona Hotelera

A Hotel Zone marina at kilometre 15.3 running jungle speedboat tours, MUSA snorkelling, submarine trips, Isla Mujeres catamarans and fishing.

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8. Casa Jacaranda Cooking Classes

Cooking class and market visitJuárez

A cooking school in a 19th-century palace in Colonia Juárez, offering small-group Mexican cooking classes with an optional morning visit to a local market.

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9. Cancún Sailing

Catamaran toursCancún

A Cancún catamaran operator running full-day sailing trips to Isla Mujeres with snorkelling, a beach club lunch and an open bar, plus private charters.

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10. Sabores México Food Tours

Food toursCitywide

Small-group food tours in Roma Norte, Coyoacán and the Mercado de Jamaica, plus an evening taco and mezcal tour, from a company also operating in Mérida.

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