Photo: Banja-Frans Mulder (CC BY 3.0)
A self-guided audio tour of Cozumel in two parts. In San Miguel, the island's one town, the walk runs from the Punta Langosta pier along the malecón built under Rafael E. Melgar, looking across the channel Gerónimo de Aguilar crossed in 1519 to join Cortés, to Parque Benito Juárez, the heart of a town founded in 1848 by families fleeing the Caste War, the church of San Miguel, the Cousteau monument and the island museum in the Hotel Playa of 1938. Then, by taxi inland, San Gervasio: the Maya city that by 1200 CE was the island's largest settlement, often presented as the sanctuary of the goddess Ixchel, an identification that is contested. Its groups are linked by white raised roads, the sacbés. San Gervasio is not a walk from town, and the ship's own excursion is the safer choice for anyone short of time.
13 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 80 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 2 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Punta Langosta Pier, The Malecón and the Rafael E. Melgar Monument, Parque Benito Juárez, Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel.
Jacques Cousteau Monument, Museo de la Isla de Cozumel.
San Gervasio, Manitas Group, Chichan Nah, El Palacio, Nohoch Nah, Murciélagos Group, Ka'na Nah.
The waterfront promenade built under General Rafael E. Melgar, facing the channel Gerónimo de Aguilar crossed in March 1519 to join Cortés as an interpreter.
The civic heart of a town founded on 3 May 1848 by families fleeing the Caste War in Yucatán, with its yellow clock tower facing the ferry terminal.
The island museum in the Hotel Playa of 1938, telling Cozumel from its geology and reefs to the Maya and modern tourism, with a rooftop terrace over the channel.
The Maya city in the island's forest, often presented as the sanctuary of Ixchel, though Mexico's culture ministry records no evidence here linking it to her cult.
An elite residence whose walls still carry small red-painted human handprints.
A Postclassic temple that keeps its roof, with traces of red, blue and ochre paint visible through the doorway.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 13 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 13 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Cozumel — San Miguel and the Island of Ixchel, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
13 narration points, including Museo de la Isla de Cozumel, Manitas Group, Punta Langosta Pier, The Malecón and the Rafael E. Melgar Monument and Parque Benito Juárez. That is about 17 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1 hour in town, plus the San Gervasio ride and visit total, but you walk at your own pace. 13 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.