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 […]

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, […]

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