Content creator addon · any private tour

You need footage that doesn't look like Mexico.

Everyone's cenote reel looks the same. The same platform at Ik-Kil. The same angle at Gran Cenote. The same light because everyone arrived at the same time. I'm a filmmaker. I know when to be there, where to stand, and what the frame should look like.

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What it is

An addon — not a separate tour

The content creator service is an addon to any private tour I do — not a separate product. You book any tour (private day tour, cenote circuit, full peninsula route, Sisal) and add this on for +$800 MXN.

What changes: I shift how we run the day with your footage goals in mind. We arrive at every location earlier — sometimes considerably earlier — to hit the light before anyone else. I tell you where to stand, what angle works, what time to be at which cenote to get the beam of light through the ceiling. I know the locations the way a cinematographer knows a set.

I also shoot. I'm a documentary filmmaker. If you hand me your camera or phone, I'll get angles of you in the location that you can't get yourself — underwater, from above on the rock wall, from the back of the boat. The Yucatán is one of the most visually extraordinary places on the planet. Most people leave with footage that doesn't reflect that. Mine does.

Locations

Where the footage actually comes from

Cenote at 7am

Blue light window

The semi-open cenotes — Suytun, Ik-Kil — have a specific window in the morning when the sun angle hits the water and creates the beam of electric blue light you've seen in other reels. That window is about 45 minutes. If you arrive at 10am with the tour bus, you miss it. We arrive at 7am.

◎ Best cenote: Suytun · Best months: Nov–Feb

Chichén Itzá at opening

Before the crowd

The site opens at 8am. Most day tours arrive between 10 and 11. For 90 minutes after opening you can photograph El Castillo pyramid with one or two other people in the frame, or none. The angle of light is also better — lower sun, longer shadows, actual texture in the stone.

◎ Best light: 8–9:30am · avoid Tuesdays (busiest day)

Jungle canopy

Off-highway roads

The interior of the Yucatán Peninsula is low jungle over limestone — an unusual visual that doesn't look like the Mexican jungle you've seen elsewhere. On the right back roads between ruins and cenotes, the canopy closes over the road. Nobody's shooting this on a tour bus.

◎ Best route: between Uxmal and Mérida

Sisal dock at sunset

Gulf coast, no tourists

The dock in Sisal at 6pm, when the fishing boats are coming back and the pelicans line up on the posts and the Gulf goes gold — this is not a manufactured experience. It happens every day to zero tourists. The palette is completely different from the Caribbean coast: warm grey-green water, low light, working village.

◎ Best months: year round · add to Sisal day trip

Underwater cenote

Free-dive or snorkel

Shooting underwater in the cave cenote system is its own discipline. The water is so clear that the light behaves strangely — beams through stalactites, fish schools against pure white visibility, the geometry of cave formations. I free-dive. I shoot underwater. I'll get you footage you didn't know was possible.

◎ Best cenote: Dos Ojos · requires basic swimming

Flamingo lagoon

Celestún biosphere

Two hundred flamingos at 7am in a shallow salt lagoon from a small silent boat. The color, the scale, the absolute stillness. This is a genuinely hard scene to photograph well — the light, the distance, the movement — and I know exactly where to position the boat for the frame.

◎ Best months: Oct–March · combine with Sisal day

What you leave with

Output guide

20–30 hero stills

Shot on your device or mine. Composed, correctly lit, technically correct. These are not snapshots. Each one is a frame.

60–90 second reel raw footage

Handheld, stabilized where it matters, multiple angles per location. Ready to edit for Reels, TikTok, or YouTube Shorts. I don't edit — you do, or your editor does.

Location notes

For every location we shoot, I'll tell you the GPS coordinates, the best time of day, which months have the best conditions, and what lens or focal length works. So you can come back.

Underwater shots

If the tour includes cenote diving or snorkeling and you have a waterproof camera or GoPro, I'll get in the water with you and shoot. The underwater cenote footage is consistently the strongest content from any trip.

Combine with

Which tours work best

Private day tour $5,000 + $800 addon

The foundation. Any itinerary, fully adapted for shooting.

Cenote tour $4,200 + $800 addon

Four cenote types in one day — the most visually varied content day possible.

Full peninsula route $5,000/day + $800/day addon

3–7 days of locations across the entire peninsula. Best total footage output.

Sisal Dive Camp $18,000 camp (addon built in)

Three days on the Gulf coast: wreck diving, flamingos, empty beaches. Unique content.

Add to any tour

+$800 MXN · content creator addon

DM me on Instagram @mexicotourguide. the content creator addon. I'll confirm the locations we'll shoot based on your dates and the season's best conditions.

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