Xcaret Tour features an ancestral performance of one of Mexico´s most important cultural expressions and daring traditions visitors’ shouldn´t miss during their day trip at the park. The Flying Men at Xcaret Park known in Spanish as the “Voladores de Papantla” is a challenging representation of the totonacan Indian ceremony from the Mexican State Veracruz where a group of four men jump from a 30 meter pole into the air to honor the gods.  

The Flying Men ritual in Xcaret Park represents the four cardinal points and the colorful outfits used are meant to resemble the bright color feathers of regional birds. One man stays on the top of the pole playing a drum and flute, as a guide to the other four participants that descend into the air tied only by a rope around their waist. Each participant must descend in 13 exact circles around the pole which is the number of months of the Mayan calendar. 

This Xcaret Park attraction is a spiritual offering and a representation of the Indian cosmos-vision of different ethnic groups such as totonacans, nahuatl, and mayas quiches among other, that is passed from father to son. The myth tells that one day five men decided to send a message to the god of fertility and scale up the highest tree to risk their life in the sky to honor the gods for a good harvest.

All Xcaret Tickets include access to the Flying Men performance, from the Xcaret Basic entrance to the personalized Xcaret Tour (Xcaret Plus, Xcaret Two Days). This Xcaret attration is offered during winter at 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:15 pm, and during summer at 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm and 3:15 pm.