Museum and botanical garden “Dr. Faustino Miranda”

In the middle of the noise and the chaos that you can find in Tuxtla Gutierrez there is a quiet calm place where you can find peace.  It is the botanical garden that presents a great variety of scenarios throughout the different seasons of the year.

This spring it brings you a carpet of golden leaves while the trees wait for the May showers to dress up in their beautiful green leaves along with the grass and flowers.

The botanical garden fosters since 1949 more than 900 species of plants and trees.  These species help with different programs to help on research, […]

Moxviquil orchids

“It’s magic, it’s another place.”

It is a botanical garden located on the shores of San Cristobal de las Casas.The purpose is to preserve Moxviquil Orchid, which is endangered in Chiapas.

In 1994 began the great feat of Dietz Robert Craig “Cisco”, who began the rescue of specimens of orchids in places disturbed by human activities. Pronatura Sur in 2002 formalized the collection to record it as “Orchids Moxviquil” (OM) through an Environmental Management Unit (AMU), the mechanism defined by the Mexican government for the management of wildlife.

Once you enter OM, yo can see and feel an enormous peace of mind, the place has an alternate design, clean, comfortable and cool. Nature at its artistic expression, a touch of “Cisco”.

If you run your own luck Craig “Cisco” will welcome you and guide you through Moxviquil Orchids, he will tell you how to start this project in such a friendly way, you will not want to leave there . After Cisco will give you an introduction to the orchid […]

Na Bolom home of the jaguar

The archeologist Frans Blom and the photographer and journalist, Gertrude Duby, founded Na Bolom  in 1950. It is an institute dedicated to the preservation of cultural and environmental treasures of the Maya area. Na Bolom is located on a building that was abandoned; there it used to be a seminary.

Na Bolom offers different services, hotel, restaurant, museum, research area (library, map library and archive), a botanical garden and a house of culture. The museum was created from collections that Blom was forming. Currently It has five exhibition halls and two rooms for temporary exhibitions. The library has a collection of […]

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