Activities & Workshops: hiking, cycling, cooking...

Museums & Places to See

In town *** free to all our students ***

• The Maya Medicine Development Center:
  This center still cures people using ancient Mayan medicine, mostly using plants. Birth are still given in a traditional way.


• The Museum of Ambar:
  You will learn about the peculiarity of the ambar of chiapas as well as see unique pieces with incrusted insects. Tips about how to recognize real ambar will be given.


• A paper workshop cooperative:
  This cooperative recycles paper making beautiful pieces of art as well as books. One technique consists of incrusting petals from a variety of colored flowers. Pre-Hispanic paper is also made.


• The Museum of Traditional Costumes:
  This unique museum has rare costumes from indigenous villages. Each costume has a meaning and is characteristic to a village. The museum founder, our guide, spent his life healing people for free as well as building schools and water reservoirs in various communities..


• San Cristóbal traditional market:
  You feel like going back in time. A must see!


• Cofee museum:
  This short visit will guide you through the steps of how coffee is processed, from the land to your cup.


• Na Bolom museum: This ethnographic collection reflects artifacts and gifts collected from trips the museum founders(Frans & Gertrude Duby Blom) made to the Lacandón jungle.

Mayan villages

Close to town *** Included in our spanish immersion program ***

• CHAMULA
  This popular village proudly keeps strong traditions and character.
  The ceremonies occuring within the church of the main place are a mix of Maya culture & Catholic traditions.


• ZINACANTAN
  This village keeps strong traditions too. It is famous for his clothes and fields of flowers.
  You may visit an indigenous back-strap loom weaving cooperative run by women.

Daily Activities

*** All our students are free to participate ***

You are welcome to join our activities from Monday to Friday!

• Monday: Board games


• Tuesday: Salsa lessons
  Our most popular activity! At 8pm.


• Wednesday: Documentary


• Thursday: Conference
  The schedule may vary depending on the guest lecturer availability.


• Friday: Cinema

Cultural events

*** All our students are free to participate ***

Feature-length films and discussions revolving around Central American themes. Weekly conferences sponsored by the school, given by guest lecturers on themes such as:

• The impact of the FTA and the WTO in Mexico
• Puebla-Panama Plan
• History of Chiapas
• The influence of Globalization
• Traditions and customs
• Religious diversity
• Zapatista uprising
• and much more...
• You may suggest a topic.

Back-strap loom weaving Classes

*** Included in our spanish immersion program ***

Get to know talented indigenous women from Zinacantan while they teach you traditional back-strap loom weaving and embroidery. Weaving is a way of life in Zinacantan and very important to their culture and livelihood. This proves to be a very rich cultural experience for our students.

Mexican cooking classes

*** Included in our spanish immersion program ***

Fill your mouth with Spanish words and Mexican food! You will visit the local food market with your teacher to choose the perfect ingredients and then learn how to make rich traditional dishes like "pollo en mole", stuffed zucchini and "Chiapaneco" tamales.

Our classes are available in vegetarian cuisine as well!

All Materials are included in the price

Session: 4-5 hours