Yucatan Adventure is a volunteer Eco-Travel
Guide by the Maya Foundation In Laakeech A.C. a sustainable civil
society association in Yucatan, Mexico, dedicated to Sustainable
Geo-Tourism, helping travelers learn about Yucatan's
Colonialand
Maya
Culture, local Mayan people, and their traditions; as well as to inform travelers about the many wonderful
eco-cultural activities,
green vacation
packages Yucatan
offers,
Mayan Spa
experiences,
discount vacation
offers
and packages,
Green Hacienda
hotels reviews,
and great free
volunteering opportunities sponsored by the Maya Foundation In
Laakeech (pronounced "in lakech) and the Hacienda Chichen, both
dedicated to the Mayan communities welfare in Chichen
Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.
September 2010,
Dra. Cecilia Sanchez and Chef Josue Cime will conduct a Mayan Nut Cooking Healthy Workshop to
promote the rich and highly nutritional Mayan Nut Tree seed... learn
to store it, cook it, and enjoy it in many easy
organic recipes.
October 2010, J-Men Bartolome Poot Nahuat
will conduct a few Mayan Medicinal Plants Workshops for the Maya
Foundation In Laakeech for the hotel staff and travelers wishing to
participate can register.
Contact us now
for dates, scheduled program, registration, fee.
Rent Your Own
Private Cottage at Hacienda Chichen for a very Special Low Price
per Week arriving in the month of September 2010:
Don't miss out on a Great Rent Offer from Yucatan Haciendas' top
Eco-Cultural Destination and Green Spa Resort!
Hacienda Chichen Resort is offering travelers the unique
opportunity to rent a private two double bed guest-rooms / two
bathroom cottage with its own private patio terrace for the
unique especial discount price of USD $ 790 plus taxes per
week (weekly rate rental offers six nights / seven days).
This Eco-Cottage Week Rate Rental offers guests a private
terrace overlooking the lush tropical gardens of the Hacienda
Chichen furnished with antique Colonial rocking chairs, handmade
hammock; rooms provide a mini-bar and coffee maker, plus
ceiling fan, air conditioning units, and deluxe green
amenities. This offer is valid for rental dates arriving September 2010. Don't miss this opportunity!
Reserve Now
Restrictions apply. Private Two Bedroom Cottage Rental at
Hacienda Chichen Resort, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, has a
per week rate and requires a prepaid non-refundable reservation
and is limited to cottage availability.
Contact Hacienda Chichen's Reservation Center Now
We wish you a
joyful and successful year 2010, proclaimed by the United Nations as
the
International Year of Biodiversity. You can participate in our
Eco-Awareness commitment
to protect Yucatan's
flora and fauna
volunteer programs and celebrate the International Year of
Biodiversity . Everyone can support respect and awareness of
cultural biodiversity and protect the environment by
respectfully living in a sustainable manner; we encourage our
readers to consume less, waste less, reuse more and
recycle... ideal daily activities you can do!
We
hope you enjoy our latest articles, it
took long hours of work and great enthusiasm to research for our new
wonderful articles about Yucatan's wildlife, updated this August
2009 for our Eco-Travel articles collection and our great commitment
in
Sustainable Tourism and interest in Yucatan:
The
beautiful color photos and attractive
flora and fauna descriptions
are a true treasure for Nature Lovers and Eco-travelers wishing to
explore the many eco-wonders of Yucatan, Mexico. Please feel
free to contact us to add new inside in
our Flora and
Fauna Catalog Collection.
In
January 2010, the Maya Foundation In Laakeech and Hacienda Chichen
Resort with the support and care of Mr. Bruce A. Gordon and his
staff, are building an authentic Mayan traditional rural hut at the
entrance of the hotel's private
Maya Jungle Reserve to
house Mr. Jim Conrad who has being working as a MFIL naturalist
volunteer indentifying and cataloging many plants
(flora)
and animals (fauna)
in what is Yucatan's most committed eco-cultural green hotel
property: Hacienda Chichen Resort in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.
We encourage you to view our article about how to build a typical
Mayan Home (Mayan Hut) utilizing traditional Mayan building
techniques,
read more here.
Few months ago, our writers interview J-Men Bartolomee Poot
about the Maya Cosmo-vision and the holistic understanding of the
Universe we live in, read more....
Ruben Gutierrez B.
President of Maya Foundation In Laakeech NGO
Yucatan Adventure Eco-Travel Guide and
The MFIL
Board of Trustees and Volunteer Team.
Congratulations to Hacienda Chichen and Yaxkin Spa
for winning the
Mayan J-Men Senior Healers' Sustainable Eco-Cultural Destination
Award of Excellence Read our Eco-tourism
article about Yucatan's best green Spa Resort in Chichen Itza,
Mexico.
Hacienda Chichen is # 1 among Yucatan Haciendas and Spa Destinations
of Mexico.
Maya
Foundation In Laakeech 2010 Social Support Projects focus on:
Caring for the
Mayan Rural Children
The Maya Foundation In
Laakeech thanks Hacienda Chichen Resort for the active support,
monthly
donations, and the hotel's staff helping hands reconstructing and updating a
Child Care Facility
downtown Xcalacoop, Yucatan, Mexico. The work started late December
2009 and will continue until during 2010, your help and donations will help us bring
much needed health and education to this communities young children
and rural families. Please help us help with your donations of
toddlers' toys, learning games, color markers, good used clothes or
any item you wish to gift to this rural Mayan Children's Care
Center, read more.
This Fall 2010, Mayan
Specialist Mucuy Kak Moó
Marín,
a dedicated Communications Development Engineer and MFIL
Mayan Calendar Teacher, is offering a series of
Mayan Calendars Workshops
at
Hacienda Chichen Resorts, every Friday starting October 8th, 2010. Ms. Kak works at the Mayan
Culture and Traditions School Oxlajunti' Kuj, directed by
J-Men Don Bartolomee Poot Nauhat. A
Mayan
Cosmo-vision scholar, she teaches Maya as a second language, Holistic Mayan Numerology,
and Maya Astrology among other Mayan academic work.
Yaxkin Spa in union with the
Senior Mayan J-Men Healers offer you:
U BEJIL MAYAOOB
Maya Healing Way
Mayan Holistic SPA Therapist
Certification Program in
Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
Price per person US $ 999.00 plus taxes includes full program, certification exam,
all meals, 4 nights in double occupancy
stay.
Courses start June 3rd, 2011
Registration ends April 30th, 2011
2010 Travel News: In
November, 2010
We Celebrated
a Truly Traditional Mayan Ritual:
U Janal Pikan a
Mayan Day of the Dead a Holistic Maya Tradition, Chichen Itza,
Mexico.
U JANAL PIXAN
is an intimate Maya family ceremony to
remember their deceased and their ancestors. This 2nd of November
2010 Hacienda Chichen and the Mayan J-Men will celebrate a
unique Day of the Dead and Full Moon Maya Blessing in a unique Mayan
Ceremony in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.
Day of the Dead is a very important ancient tradition. Maya villages
prepare with
tropical fruits and flowers and with up most care and
reverence the “altar” in which the
food and beveragefor their dead loved ones is to be placed during the
first three days of November each year. In some villages
nowadays, this ceremony is celebrated as a
tradition that blends ancestral
Maya practices with the Catholic belief system, imposed on
the Maya during the Colonization of their land. Nowadays, most Mayan families'
religion is a fusion
of Mayan spirituality with the Catholic dogma, such fusion has created the current
practices and celebrations found in most mixed family backgrounds in Yucatan.
Today, you will find Catholic saint and virgin images placed on
the altar as part of the offerings to the soul of those that
have left the physical body. The offerings are
exotic
flowers, personal things,
copal and meals the person enjoy while alive:
fruits,kakaw,
tamales, along with photographs, cruces and other colorful
artifacts are carefully placed among candle lights and
exotic flowers. Praying and fasting is traditional, as
is to
decorate with flowers and fruits
the tomb site, also spend the night in the cemetery next to the
tomb of those loved lighting candles,
singing the songs they loved, and offering their favorite meals
and memorabilia. Muc bi’pollo, a grant tamale meal,
is served traditionally on this day.
Congratulations to Hacienda Chichen and Yaxkin Spa
for winning the
Mayan J-Men Senior Healers' Sustainable Eco-Cultural Destination
Award of Excellence Read our Eco-tourism
article about Yucatan's best green Spa Resort in Chichen Itza,
Mexico.
2011
February is our Mayan Kakaw Month and
Traditional
Chocolate Festival
Celebrate Saint Valentine's Day with a Mexican Chocolate
Party
Chocolate Festival starts at 4:30 PM, come and celebrate
with us in
HACIENDA CHICHEN RESORT - Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
Hacienda Chichen
On 14th of February
2011, Maya Chocolatier Irma Chan Tzul, Assistant Chef
at Hacienda Chichen, offered free Mayan Culinary
Classes to couples as part of the Maya Foundation In
Laakeech 2011 Fiesta and Festival Events.
Free admission limited
to hotel guests, other visitors are requested a donation of USD $10
per person; Maya Chocolate Festival will offer many Chocolate
delight presentations and will start at 4:30 pm; followed by our
Mexican Saint Valentine's Day Cocktail Party, Review
our 2010 Mayan and Colonial Festivities and Events Calendar.
2010- 2009 Maya Cultural
News
World Premiere
Planetarium Show:
Don't
miss viewing this incredible film production in your hometown
planetarium. On Oct 23rd, 2009 the world premiere of "Tales of the Maya
Skies: el Universo Maya - Yok' Ol Kaab Mayaa" production was
featured in Mexico City's INP Planetarium. In November 12th,
2009, the Chabot Space Center Planetarium will showcase its own CA
grand premiere, USA
The
Maya Foundation In Laakeech A.C. and
Hacienda
Chichen were among the supporters of the Chabot Space Center
production team while working in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.
To produce this extraordinary full dome planetarium show the
Chabot Space Center team work in close collaboration with Mayan
scholars, digital artists, astrophysics, and
Mayan Healers
associated with Yucatan Adventure Volunteer Team. Tales of the
Maya Skies planetarium show production was sponsored by the
United States's National Science Foundation, NASA, and Mexican
partnerships such as INP and SEP. Read about the
Maya Cosmovision.
For
our readers interested in learning more about the Mayan Calendars (Haab,
Tzolkin, Long Count) we suggest reading our well informed article Mayan Calendar
and then visiting
Maya Skiesinteractive Maya Calendars webpage
offering visitors the opportunity to convert calendar dates.
9th Maya Language
and Culture Symposium
Huitan, Chiapas, Mexico
In August 2009, the
Mayan J-Men Senior Healers and Wiseman had their 9th Maya Language
and Culture Symposium in Huitan, Chiapas, Mexico and M.H. Jose Tamay
participated with Lorenzo Tamay as the Maya Foundation In Laakeech
spokemen. Both Mayan leaders are members of the MFIL Board of
Trustees, MFIL is a NGO sustainable civil volunteer association
dedicated to the
Maya Cosmo-vision,
promoting the Maya holistic cultural traditions and supporting with
sustainable volunteer social programs the welfare of many Mayan Communities near Chichen Itza,
Yucatan, Mexico.
M.H.W J-Men
Idelfonso Ake celebrated the main sacred Maya ceremonies during the
4 day events of this important International Maya Language and
Cultural Symposium.
Welcome to our
Volunteer Maya World:
We thankGeotourism
Challenge
for Sustaining
the Future of
Destinations,
for featuring
our NGO Maya
Foundation In Laakeech
(pronounced: in lak'ech) 2009 innovating project with the
Hacienda Chichen's
support and sustainable
tourism vision,
this unique Geotourism 2009 Challange project was
sponsors by
National
Geographic and Ashoka's
Changemakers.
Our Eco-Travel News: DID YOU KNOW:
Our sincere congratulations to Hacienda Chichen Resort and Yaxkin
Spa for this year's successful International recognitions to their
commitment to Sustainable Tourism, excellent hospitality services,
and Mayan
Eco-Cultural activities. This July 2009,
Spanish Magazine HOLA
published its 14th Extraordinary Travel Edition selecting
Hacienda Chichen and Yaxkin Spa as "the" place to stay
and enjoy a Mayan cultural experience when visiting Chichen Itza,
Yucatan, Mexico.
In
November 2009, agreat experience awaits you:
Green Mayan
Spa experienceat Yaxkin Spa,
Chichen Iza,
Yucatan, Mexico,
where you can
nourish your
skin with the
ultimate Spa
beauty and
deluxe Spa Skin
care. It
is with great joy we report to you that in June 2009, Spa Magazine
included Yaxkin Spa among the 8 Eco-Spa Innovators and Green Good
Spa List 2009; for this and many other International recognitions, we
congratulate Yaxkin Spa and its Mayan Healers and Eco-Spa Vision. Join our free
volunteer
programsand visit Yucatan, Mexico as you help the
Maya
Foundation In
Laakeech
(la'kech) teaching ESL,
or directing job related education programs, health, and social volunteer
workshops. Stay in Chichen Itza two or more weeks
volunteering
in your vacations
opportunities!
Out of region
volunteers are
granted free
rooming by the
Hacienda Chichen
at Chichen Itza,
Yucatan, Mexico
while helping
Maya people
and communities
nearby.
For our volunteers as well as
travelers, we
recommend you
read our
"Safe
Travel Tips",
a helpful guide about
Mexican currency,
safe Credit Card habits, and
useful information on "Yucatan's public bus, road safety, car
rentals, and general
transportation.
The
2009
Maya
Foundation
In Laakeech
A.C.
Board of
Directors is headed by Mr. Ruben Gutierrez and
Don Valerio Canche among others. The
foundation's 2009 social work agenda will
include the
opening of a new
Health Center,
public
eco-friendly
bathrooms,
kitchen, and multi-function building
with an indigenous medicinal garden
where our social
volunteer
workshops, plus nutritional
cooking
recipes
and classes,
will be held to
service the
Mayan villages
in the Chakom
municipality;
this project is part of the
Children Malnutrition Program
started in 2007.
Book
your
Mexico's
Green
Vacation
Packages
and
Offers
via
Chichen Services and
help Yucatan
Adventure
Eco-Travel
Guide
free
volunteer
journalism.
Chichen
Services
and
Yaxkin
Spa will
donate
10% of
their
winter
profits
to
support
us and
Maya
Foundation
In
Laakeech
Maya
eco-social
programs.
Find
great
2010
vacation
packages,
Yucatan
green
boutique
haciendas
and top
hotels
low
rates,
fabulous
discounts,
etc.
WHAT'S NEW:
We hope our
readers enjoy
our April
2009 article:
"Yucatan
Wildlife."
Eco-Travelers an
nature lovers
may enjoy the
rich fauna
(animal kingdom)
found in in the
wild Maya Jungle
Reserve
privately
safeguarded and
protected at
Hacienda Chichen
Resort,
Chichen Itza,
Yucatan, Mexico.
Yucatan's birds,
reptiles,
mammals,
insects,
butterflies,
bees, and other
creatures are a
joy to observe
in the wild.
Yucatan's
wildlife has a
truly vast list
of endemic fauna
(indigenous
animals) to
protect and care
for.
We hope you find our Online Volunteer Magazine's articles interesting and full
of learning fun. Yucatan Adventure welcomes article, news, travel
contributions, and ideas on how to support the Maya Foundation In Laakeech A.C. efforts to help the Mayan Communities nearby Chichen Itza.
YUCATAN
ADVENTURE GREEN
TRAVEL PARTNERS
AND ACTIVE
DONORS:
We are thankful
for the active
support the
following green
travel companies
give to our
social work:
Hacienda Chichen - Rated #1
Hacienda to visit in Yucatan by TripAdvisor!
Yaxkin Spa -
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Yucatan Adventure offers Mayan Vacation
Packages this 2009 at low prices to visit Yucatan, Mexico, enjoy Chichen Itza
magic and mystical Mayan experiences by selecting one of our many Yucatan
Eco-Vacations and Mexico's top Green Spa-Wellness Retreats in Chichen Itza,
Yucatan, Mexico. Visit our "Mayan Eco-Spa Special Offers and Chichen Itza
Eco-Spa Resort Vacation Packages and Family
Eco-Cultural Activities gear to
enjoy Yucatan, Mexico while supporting Eco-Tourism and Sustainable Tourism; stay
in Mexico's
best Green Boutique Hacienda Hotel in Chichen Itza, indulge in
unique Mayan holistic Spa beauty care, tour the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza or
swim at Yodzonot Cenote, capture the
magic of birds flying at sunrise singing
all day at the Hacienda Chichen Bird Refuge, Yucatan's best private Maya Jungle
Reserve and Eco-Resort, these and more will help you enjoy your stay!
Help us protect the Maya Jungle and Forest,
Yucatan's wildlife, fauna,
animals and their indigenous habitat: join our volunteer sustainable
tourism and
Eco-Volunteer for the Maya
Foundation In Laakeech and start your own
Yucatan Adventure
Eco-Travel vacations' activities "must do" list! We encourage you read
our articles about Maya Culture, traditions in Yucatan, and Top
Places to Visit.
In
January 2010, the Maya Foundation In Laakeech and Hacienda Chichen
Resort with the support and care of Mr. Bruce A. Gordon and his
staff, are building an authentic Mayan traditional rural hut at the
entrance of the hotel's private
