The Best Places to Elope in Bacalar
The Lagoon of Seven Colours, a freshwater lake so clear and layered it runs from turquoise to deep blue, with cenotes, wooden docks, and ancient stromatolites. The quiet answer to the Riviera Maya.
You picture a Mexican Caribbean elopement and think of the crowded Riviera Maya.
A few hours south there is a freshwater lagoon of seven blues almost no one has reached yet.
Bacalar is the quiet, luminous answer to the Riviera Maya, and its lagoon is unlike any water in Mexico.
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Laguna de Bacalar is a long freshwater lagoon so clear and so varied in depth that it runs through seven distinct blues, from pale turquoise over the white sand shallows to deep indigo over the cenotes. Wooden docks reach out over the water, and the light on it is extraordinary at sunrise.
The Lagoon of Seven Colours
Laguna de Bacalar is a long freshwater lagoon so clear and so varied in depth that it runs through seven distinct blues, from pale turquoise over the white sand shallows to deep indigo over the cenotes. Wooden docks reach out over the water, and the light on it is extraordinary at sunrise.
Cenotes, stromatolites, and the town
The lagoon holds deep cenotes like the Cenote Azul, ancient living stromatolites among the oldest life forms on earth, and the small colonial fort town of Bacalar, a designated Pueblo Magico. A sailboat on the lagoon at golden hour is the signature Bacalar frame.
The right spot depends on the light and the water you want. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, coordinate the symbolic or civil ceremony and vendors, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, Bacalar is the most luminous and least crowded water in the Mexican Caribbean.
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