 Baja California Sur, Mexico - Explore the Sierra de la Laguna)Thumbnail description: Edgardo Cortés Nares and Josey Hastings offer personalized trips with camping facilities in a peaceful, rural setting. Visitors can explore the Sierra de la Laguna through guided hiking and biking trips, participate in pottery workshops, take Spanish lessons, learn about the local culture, or just relax. The setting offers visitors the opportunity to rejuvenate, reconnect with nature, and catch a glimpse of Baja's rural Mexican culture. We hope that trips like these will help make small-scale, low-impact ecotourism a viable economic option for the local community.
Thumbnail description: Biologist Maru Eugenia Rodríguez and photographer Eduardo Lugo have teamed up to provide private and personalized day-trips that enable visitors to observe whales and dolphins living in the waters of Banderas Bay, marine turtles laying eggs on its beaches and exotic birds inhabiting the lush tropical forest. Funds generated by these trips help pay for ongoing research.
Thumbnail description: Anthropologist George Otis has lived and studied in Nayarit for many years. His educational talks provide extensive information on local history, culture, ecology, and current issues. His main interest is the Cora people, who live in some of Mexico's most rugged, scenic and interesting territory. George's cultural activities include visits to museums, colonial towns and churches, ancient archeological sites, traditional artisans, and colorful festivals. Nor does he shy from kayaking, hiking, snorkelling, horseback riding, rappelling, and wildlife observation.
Thumbnail description: A "one-man company" is how completely bilingual EarthFoot host Alfredo Herrera describes his operation. Most mornings he offers dolphin- and whale-watching cruises out of Puerto Vallarta, on his 27-foot ship fully equipped with safety equipment, trained crew, and license for such tours. Two kinds of birding tour can also be arranged in advance, a coastal and marshland tour good for beginners, and a mountain slope tour for the more serious.| REVIEW VISITOR FEEDBACK Thumbnail description: Not far inland from the mega-developed coastal resort area known as Bahías de Huatulco, on Oaxaca-State's southern Pacific slope, host Alvaro Ricárdez Scherenberg hopes that his small-scale, low-impact approach to both ecotourism and agriculture will contribute significantly to his local economy and society. By spending time at his isolated mountain hacienda you can not only experience aspects of traditional Mexican culture few international visitors ever glimpse, but also help Alvaro pioneer sustainable tourism in a part of the world where the main efforts tend in the opposite direction. Restful environment with endless hiking opportunities, good food, and an enlightened intellectual and spiritual environment await you here.| REVIEW VISITOR FEEDBACK |