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Taller Leñateros a combination of fiber, color and textures
Taller Leñateros a combination of fiber, color and textures

June 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

Taller Leñateros a combination of fiber, color and textures

Right by San Cristobal de las Casas, you will find the Lenateros Workshop. At this magical place leaves and seeds are transformed in a great variety of items along with recycled materials and natural fibers.

The Mexican poet Ambar Past founded this workshop in 1975. The objective is to document, and spread the cultural values of the locals, the songs, literature, and crafts and to rescue things and traditions that are about to disappear like the extraction of color from plants.

The lenateros create, show, invent new things and work in different ways to make handcrafted paper, notebooks, solar silkscreen, wood engraving and painting with plants. The organization is pro environment, recycle and to create work of art.

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Aluxes Ecopark Palenque

Legend has it that the Mayan priests, called Jímen, with his wisdom and power to create Aluxes, magical beings in human form, like an elf, elves are eternally young, happy and playful that can communicate with any animal of the forest , tend the fields and forests to protect wildlife, but can understand the language of men, do not pronounce it because it should not be a relationship between humans and elves can only be seen by the innocent eyes of children and the wise eyes of the elderly.

The Mayan culture, the rainforest and wildlife are the elements that inspired the name […]

By Guía Chiapas|2017-02-07T21:01:51-06:00marzo 1st, 2012|Categories: March 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría|Tags: activities, activity, adventures, alux, Aluxes, animal, area preservation, áreas, attitudes, birds, children, colors, conservation and restoration, conservation programs, create, crocodiles, donate, ecopark, elderly, elf, environmental education, family recreation, feed animals, flamingos, forest, guided night tours, guides, habits, harmony, howler monkeys, human, iguanas, jaguar, jaguars, jímen, jungle, language, legend, macaws, magical beings, mayan culture, mayan priest, natural environment, nature, ocelots, palenque, parrots, participate, peccaries, power, professional practice, protects wildlife, rainforest, release of confiscated animals, restoration, schedule, sensations, snakes, social service, sounds, team, trails, wetlands, white tailed deer, wildlife, wildlife rescue, wisdom, wise eyes, world of the jungle|0 Comments

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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