There are places where nature spilled its gifts with generosity. Metzabok (which means “The Thunder Maker God”) could very well be one of the best examples of this, it has: forest, jungle, a very rich fauna (unfortunately some of them are endangered, such as the Quetzal, the Great Curassow, the Harpy Eagle and the Jaguar), crystal clear waters, landscapes, caves, etcetera.
Upon arriving to the Mezabok lagoon, we find some rowboats and a Cayuco (a small indigenous canoe). The cayuco is extremely narrow and gives you the impression that it can tip over any minute. They explain to us that the Lacandon people build these boats as one-piece vessel. Before they launch it to the water, they leave it on shore with piece of fish tied to the bow and one at the stern, for the crocodile and the turtle to recognize it as family and take it to a ride to know the lagoon. Later, they say, the animals take it back to where it was and then the cayuco is ready to be used by people.
Very nice explanation, but anyway we breathe a sigh of relief when they tell us that we will be ridding a rowboat. Alfredo, our guide, leads us in the water through trees forming a nice roof over us until we flow into the lagoon. The lagoon is so huge and clear that the sky and the water seem to merge together. The morning clouds travel fast above and underneath us as in a mirror.
Soon, we arrived to Tzibanah, a cave located in the waterside, with cave paintings. They call our attention some small pots and what seem to be a skull (we cannot identify clearly the kind of skull) set at the entrance of the cave. They explain to us that Tzibanah is still used to perform certain rituals.
We continue along the lagoon until we land in front of a 580 meter long path which takes us to the viewpoint. We must not touch the trees, Alfredo tells us, because some of them have thorns, and yes they have! Soon we see thorns up to 10 centimeters long in some of them.
When we arrived to the top, we contemplated the magnitude of Metzabok and the lagoon system from which it forms a part. Sky, water, jungle and rock fuse together in a view that Jose Maria Velasco, the landscape painter, would have wanted; a landscape popularized today in the boxes of Mexican matches. Some of us imagine that something like this, which is filling our eyes, must have been the world at humankind origins.
When we leave the ecstasy, we realize how heated we feel, we drink from our canteens, I have weird thoughts, I blame the heat, I suppose. One example: Who the heck told advertisers that sweaty people feel sexy? Sweaty people only feel heated!
While we were walking back to the boat we saw some water bodies that emerge here and there in the thickness of the jungle and we left, dreaming with dips into the water (a dream that we will fulfill later on) and in the lives which these landscapes may have surely sheltered at the beginning of time.
CONTACTO
Call Center 01 919 300 15 Ext. 134
Enrique Valenzuela Martínez
Tel. 01 555 150 49 32, (045) 916 102 48 42, 993 596 17 12
CÓMO LLEGAR
Partiendo de Nahá, se toma la desviación a Metzabok. Son 25 km
CONSEJOS
Llevar bloqueador solar, agua y sombrero. Viajar en vehículo propio ya que únicamente se cuenta con transporte público.
OTROS SERVICIOS
Renta de kayak
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