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Cenotes near Valladolid, secrets of the Mayan’s land.

If you want to cool off in clear and transparent water, you don’t need to leave Valladolid. In the Yucatan Peninsula, near Valladolid, Merida and the Riviera Maya you will find underground fresh water pools from below the surface rivers connected throughout the entire Peninsula. In several of the region’s cenotes pre-Hispanic and even prehistoric…

Xtabentun, nectar from the mayas: The legend behind this liqueur.

As seductive as the legend behind it, Xtabentun is an ancestral Mayan liqueur, very famous in the Yucatan peninsula. The liqueur is made from fermented honey, resulting from the work of bees that pollinate the xtabentun flower, and rum or anis liqueur. Its name means “vine that grows on stone” or “morning glory” and just…

7 things you must know about Yucatan

Merida’s downtown is the second largest in Mexico. The first one is in Mexico City. The second language in Yucatan is the Mayan language. Yucatan has cenotes. You can’t get lost. All the streets have numbers. Even numbers from north to south and odd numbers from east to west. Yucatan has its own alcoholic beverage,…

Welcome to Yucatan

The beginnings and origin of who we are today were born in the land of the Mayas, the Mayan, with the ancient Maya civilization to which we belong and whose ancient heritage fills us with pride. Humanity in the 21st-century searches to reconnect with ourselves, to become reconciled with nature, and to learn from their…