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TOUR OF THE 4 BACABES : EXPERIENCE WITH MELIPONA BEES

By JARDIN ALAK SANTUARIO Y RESTAURANTE DE LA ABEJA XUNAN KAB
Free cancellation available
Price is £22 per adult
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Overview
  • Ancestral meliponiculture
  • The world of the sacred Mayan bees Xunan Kab
  • Ancestral gastronomy using Mayan techniques
  • Tro-Cortesian Codex of Madrid
  • Botany in Ancestral Medicine
Activity location
    • Tekom
    • Tekom, Yucatán, Mexico
Meeting/Redemption Point
    • C. 8 s/n, 97768 Tekom, Yuc., México | THE SANCTUARY IS LOCATED BEHIND RODOLFO MENENDEZ DE LA PEÑA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ON THE WAY TO DZITNUP YUC, AT THE ENTRANCE OR RECEPTION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT, CIRCULAR ENTRANCE.
    • Tekom, Yucatán, Mexico

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Valid for 1 Hour, TOUR OF THE 4 BACABES : EXPERIENCE WITH MELIPONA BEES in Spanish
  • Activity duration is 1 hour1h
    1h
  • Spanish
Language options: Spanish
Price details
£22.37 x 5 Adults£111.85

Total
Price is £111.85
Valid for 2 Hours, MAYAN COOKING CLASSES in Spanish
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • Spanish

THE ANCESTRAL EXPERIENCE WILL BE IN A MAYAN KITCHEN WHERE WE WILL USE MAYAN UTENSILS, ANCESTRAL TECHNIQUES, YOU WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE ELABORATION OF THE FOOD IN THE COMPANY OF A TRADITIONAL COOK.

Language options: Spanish
Price details
£59.65 x 5 Adults£298.25

Total
Price is £298.25

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    1 hour tour
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    1 Mayan drink
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    Tour guide
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    Tasting of cochinita tacos
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    Visit to the meliponarium
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    Tasting of Mayan liquors, melipona honey and more properties.
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    Mayan museum
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    Mayan cuisine
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    Visit the farm
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Jardin alak is a world of learning, where you will learn about the Mayan cosmovision, as well as about the culture and traditions of our ancestors, you will learn a lot about the medicinal properties of melipona honey in ancestral medicine.

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Alcohol and drugs, High-heeled shoes, Littering
  • Not suitable for: People with food allergies, People with insect allergies, Wheelchair users
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

The 4 cardinal points “bacabes” will be our tour guide to start this great ancestral experience; We will start with a walk on foot, first portal LAK'IN in which you will be part of the first ritual of cleansing and elimination of evil spirits, you will make your request with great faith, you will know the important parts of a Mayan altar, as well as a Mayan kitchen, then you will enter the second portal XAMAN, we will learn about the most important Mayan deities in the Mayan culture, we will see the different types of meliponas of the region, you will understand the importance of the Mayan turtles in the ancestral medicine, you will observe the medicinal plants that are used in the botany and the Mayan medicine, As we advance in the walk we will contemplate the space where we make different types of meals in the PIB Mayan oven, the third portal CHIK'IN will guide us in our farm area where you will be in direct contact with the backyard animals of a Mayan plot, You will also observe our emblem Xunan Kab, in the last portal NOJOL you will enter the Mayan cosmovision of the Xunan Kab bees, here you will live an ancestral ritual to enter the heart of the Alak Garden the meliponarium, you will delight your senses travellers with honey, pollen, wax, harvested directly from the beehive; harvested directly from the beehive, as well as Mayan liquors, sweets and natural vanilla, you will taste some tasty tacos of cochinita pibil and a Mayan drink made from extracts of medicinal plants, which is part of the 365 flavours in Yucatan…. “Live the ancestral meliponiculture”.

Location

Activity location
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    • Tekom
    • Tekom, Yucatán, Mexico
Meeting/Redemption Point
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    • C. 8 s/n, 97768 Tekom, Yuc., México | THE SANCTUARY IS LOCATED BEHIND RODOLFO MENENDEZ DE LA PEÑA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ON THE WAY TO DZITNUP YUC, AT THE ENTRANCE OR RECEPTION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT, CIRCULAR ENTRANCE.
    • Tekom, Yucatán, Mexico