Only 60 miles from Merida, the Celestun National Park is one of the ports most visited by tourists. This wild animal refuge offers many attractions, but perhaps the greatest is the natural tableau formed by the beautiful pink flamingo seen here in its natural habitat. Try the seafood delicacies prepared here and visit the beautiful beaches, mangrove forests and the petrified wood of Tampeten. Boat tours to see the pink flamingo colonies and the beautiful landscapes of this birds and mammals sanctuary are available across the bridge with the fishermen.

Pink flamingo colonies can easily be seen during March to August when they leave their nesting area from the East side of the Peninsula at Rio Lagartos National Park and come to feed into this rich and vast zone of plancton. Up to 30,000 of these elegant birds live here.Other bird species that can be seen are: green back heron, white heron, tiger heron, great blue heron, long blue heron, royal tern tricolored heron, white ibis, snowy egrets, great egrets, reddish egret, olivaceous cormorant, double-breasted cormoran, belted king fisher, black hawk, osprey, grooved bill annis, frigate, long beaked curlew.

Clean secluded beaches along the coast are easily found. The beaches are a mixture of fine sand with seashell fragments. Other natural attractions to be seen are: Ojo de Agua Baldiosera (Spring), El bosque petrificado (Petrified forest) and Isla Pajaros (Bird's island). The "Ría de Celestún" is home to over 300 species of birds, 3 of which are found nowhere else in the world.