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The Valley of Gaviotas (Seagulls)
The Valley of Gaviotas (Seagulls)

Costa, July 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría, Tonalá

The Valley of Gaviotas (Seagulls)

A delicious seasoning

El Valle de las Gaviotas is little known, it is a pier that provides the service of transportation by boat to San Marcos Island (better known as Boca del Cielo). The magic of this place lies in its fresh dishes at the palapa-style restaurant “Max”, this little corner of flavor is ready to receive you with their specialties, such as stuffed snapper or Talla style, shrimp empanadas and stuffed coconut.

Surrounded by nature, this site allows you to make boat trips to visit the bocabarra (the mouth of the water bar), observe of mangroves, the practice of […]

By Guía Chiapas|2017-02-07T21:34:36-06:00julio 1st, 2012|Categories: Costa, July 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría, Tonalá|Tags: boat, boca del cielo, bocabarra, camp, dead sea, fishing, flavor, magic, max, nature, palapa, passiveness, san marcos island, shrimp, specialties, turtle, valley, water activities|0 Comments

José´s Camping Cabanas
José´s Camping Cabanas

Centros Ecoturísticos, Costa, Hoteles, July 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría, Tonalá

José´s Camping Cabanas

Some years ago a hazardous Canadian was surprised by the landscape of Chiapas coast and decided to devote his time to offer travelers a break in what is known today as Jose´s Camping Cabanas.

This campground has several special features, the first one is that at the end of the property it has a picturesque lagoon, not very large and shallow, it is full of mangroves, it is home to hundreds of birds of various species with beautiful colors, such as herons and parrot and there are also some small crocodiles.

In this atmosphere of palm trees and estuary, you will find […]

By Guía Chiapas|2017-02-07T21:34:36-06:00julio 1st, 2012|Categories: Centros Ecoturísticos, Costa, Hoteles, July 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría, Tonalá|Tags: birds, bungalows, campground, camping cabanas, chiapas coast, colors, crocodile, culinary, estuary, hammocks, herons, jose´s, mangroves, palm trees, parrot, picturesque lagoon, puerto arista, shallow, travelers|0 Comments

Amatenango del Valle
Amatenango del Valle

altos, Artesanías, July 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

Amatenango del Valle

A Tzeltal town that transforms clay into art with it´s magic

Amatenango del Valle called in its original language Tzoíontajal “The town of the female potters”. It is located over a little elevation that dominates a fertile valley covered with corn fields.

In the art & handcrafts there is still the use of pre-Hispanic methods in the process of creating pottery and it is famous for the clay pieces that the female potters model by hand and then they cook them in the open with logs showing that with this technique a strong pre-Hispanic upward trend.

Pots, bowls, urns, pitchers, plates, jugs, jars, […]

By Guía Chiapas|2017-02-07T21:34:36-06:00julio 1st, 2012|Categories: altos, Artesanías, July 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría|Tags: altos, amatenango del valle, art, attractions, bowls, Chiapas, crafts, female, handcrafts, jars, jugs, pitchers, plates, pots, potters, pre hispanic, tzoiontajal, urns, valley|0 Comments

Comitán Archaeological Museum

Comitan´s Archaeological Museum, located in the region that once was named Balun Canaan, the land that Rosario Castellanos loved a lot. It was opened on August 28, 1993 after restructuring what once was the first federal elementary school at the locality, within the gardens of a sixteenth-century Dominican monastery.

The exterior, which highlights its porch, is a provincial version of Art Deco, widely used in the era of Mexican artistic nationalism. The interior, however, is done according to the traditional way of Comitan: a courtyard surrounded by corridors. A bust of the musician Esteban Alfonso decorates the courtyard.

The idea of a […]

By Guía Chiapas|2018-04-09T19:48:18-06:00julio 1st, 2012|Categories: July 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría|Tags: archaeological museums, art decó, balun canaan, carlos navarrete, chinkultic, classical period, comitán, dominican monastery, esteban alfonso, glyphs, mexican artistic nationalism, museum, Rosario Castellanos, silvanajab, tenam, vessels|0 Comments

Lighthouse, 110 years guiding sailors

The coast of Chiapas is one of the few places in Mexico that still holds countless secrets eager to be shown to the world. Inside these secrets is Puerto Arista, the main destination for sun and beach in the state of Chiapas. Walking down its main street you will find the guardian of the boats, a lighthouse towering 30 meters high at the focal level, with an age of 110 years.

The use of flares, in order to guide the sailors, goes back to ancient times. It used to be made of burning fires on top of a hill near the […]

By Guía Chiapas|2018-04-11T20:35:18-06:00julio 1st, 2012|Categories: Costa, July 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría, Tonalá|Tags: 110 years, battery banks, beach, coast of chiapas, coconut oil, flares, gas acetylene, history, lighthouse, méxico, puerto arista, sailors, secrets, sun|0 Comments

Live, enjoy & preserve El Madresal

Hidden like a treasure guarded by the dense mangrove is the Madresal; a place whose reddish water and low salinity have led to the perfect paradise for marine species. This natural sanctuary took the name of a mangrove species that abounds in this area, which is characterized for filtering water and exude salt through its leaves.

Opened a few years ago by a group of fishermen (men and women)and with their own resources from the common land of Ponte Duro, Tonala, Chiapas. It is a place to relax, to take tours to appreciate the flora and fauna preserved in the coastal […]

By Guía Chiapas|2018-04-11T20:37:37-06:00julio 1st, 2012|Categories: Costa, July 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría|Tags: baked fish, beverages, Chiapas, crocodiles, ecological cabins, ecotourism, el madresal, fishermen, hammocks, hawk, herons, kitchen, mammals, mangrove, marine species, paradise, ponte duro, porcupines, raccoons, refuge of birds, sanctuary, snail, soconusco, the palm, tonalá, treasure|0 Comments