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Free things to do in Mérida

4 free picks, mapped — plus cheap eats and a Saturday plan that costs nothing.

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Culture · 1 free pick

Plaza Grande

Free Sunday folkloric dances and the white limestone cathedral.

Outdoors · 3 free picks

Cenote Day Trip

Three crystal-blue sinkhole pools by horse-drawn rail cart.

Uxmal Ruins

UNESCO Mayan city — quieter than Chichén Itzá, 80 min south.

Celestún Flamingo Reserve

Pink flamingo colony in a Gulf mangrove — boat tour 90 min west.

Want it all sequenced into a weekend?

The budget plan turns these picks into a Friday–Sunday itinerary.

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