Week #1 volunteering in la Zona Maya

After my first 3 weeks traveling, I left the beaten touristic track to spend 3 weeks at my volunteering place at a Mayan eco-cultural center in the middle of the Yucatán peninsula.

Already in the bus leaving from Bacalar I noticed that I was the only foreigner in that local bus. 2 hrs in that bus, one mototaxi and one taxi ride later, I eventually arrived at Selva Bonita (or in Mayan Kíichpam K’aax), an eco-cultural center and hotel in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo and also in the middle of nowhere of the jungle 😀🌿

Selva Bonita itself is a huge space and has a lot to offer for visitors, from endless gardens, a mystic Mayan trail, a traditional sauna, a theater, a pool, a pond with a crocodile, a small museum and rustic Mayan cabins to stay the night. The family of Don Damian lives here and offers all kinds of tours about the Mayan culture in order to conserve it as good as possible in their communities. Accommodations and the way of living here is rustic, very traditional and in coexistence with the nature. Here you don’t find any unnecessary luxury items, everything has a purpose.

Incredible, I can’t even describe all I have experienced and learned in that single week, the pictures say more than a thousands words! I am very grateful for being able to stay with them ✨

In exchange for all that I just started working on their website, which is already quite beautiful. See yourself: www.selvabonita.com 🌿🧐もっと詳しく