Nahá living experiences of the lacandon people

We are riding on a rowboat on the Naha lagoon when our guide Juan, stops the row for a moment. It seems like if he had remembered something, he keeps it to himself and keeps on rowing while he asks:

– Do you know why the dog stole the crocodile´s tong?

– The dog stole who? What? Answers one of us.

– Juan laughs heartily.

Juan is Lacandon and lives in Naha, he is proud of his culture and traditions, and it is obvious. Leisurely but without pause, he creates a story for us little by little, the story of the dog and the […]

Las Golondrinas cascade

The swallows cascade the celebration of senses

Everything at Las Golondrinas is a party. The sound of the mantled howlers and the birdsongs, the vigorous din of the cascades which refresh our face with the breeze, the blue-greenish tones of their river. It is a party, it can only be that.

Its name is neither a coincidence nor a rhetorical excess. Among the cascadeís caves, hundreds of swallows nest. Listening and watching them fly in a cloud at dawn and at sunset is like watching the same image of the bustling joy itself, a celebration of life and its delight.

On the other […]

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