Activities in Chiapas
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Croozy Scooters
Croozy Scooters rents bicycles and well-maintained Italika CS 125cc scooters. The price includes maps, locks and helmets (plus a repair kit and pump for bicycles); passport and deposit required.
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Palenque Ruins
The ancient Palenque Ruins stand at the precise point where the first hills rise out of the Gulf Coast plain, and the dense jungle covering these hills forms an evocative backdrop to Palenque's exquisite Maya architecture. Hundreds of ruined buildings are spread over 15 sq km, but only a fairly compact central area has been excavated. Everything you see here was built without metal tools, pack animals or the wheel.
As you explore the ruins, try to picture the gray stone edifices as they would have been at the peak of Palenque's power: painted blood-red with elaborate blue and yellow stucco details. The forest around these temples is still home to howler monkeys (whom you …
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Maya Exploration Center
Fascinating and entertaining in-depth tours of the Palanque ruins are given by this group of archaeologists who work on Maya sciences such as astronomy and math, and map unexplored ruins. Email them from the website or ask for Alonso Méndez at El Panchán. Their website is packed with interest for Palenque fans.
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Instituto Jovel
Instituto Jovel is professional and friendly, and has a top-class reputation among students. Most tuition is one-to-one, and it has a beautiful location. Classes in Mexican cooking (M$195), jewelry-making with amber and silver (M$325), and salsa dancing (M$52) are offered too.
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Crucero Tours
Crucero Tours organizes tours and private transportation to nearby archaeological sites and coffee fincas, as well as waterfall rappelling excursions and boat trips through mangrove forest. Guides speak English, French, Spanish and Italian.
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Escuela de Español Sol Maya
A new language school with a number of good community-based volunteer opportunities for students. Classes in Mexican cooking (around $98 to around $160), backstrap loom weaving (around $160), and group salsa lessons (M$54 per hour) are also available.
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Viajes Kali
In the Hotel María Eugenia, Viajes Kali organizes trips throughout Chiapas, including day trips to the Sima de Las Cotorras (private tour M$1300, group tour Sunday M$120) and the Cañón del Sumidero (M$480 per person).
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Explora
Adventure trips to the Lacandón Jungle (four/five days from M$4400/5400, minimum four people) including river kayaking and rafting; also spelunking tours in northwestern Chiapas, and day trips to rappel the Sima de Las Cotorras.
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El Puente Spanish Language School
Housed in the Centro Cultural El Puente, which also has a vegetarian café, cinema, gallery and an alternative therapy center that gives fabulous massages. Classes are offered for any period, starting from one day.
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La Casa en el Árbol
The ‘Tree House’ is an enthusiastic, socially committed school that teaches Tzeltal and Tzotzil as well as Spanish. It offers lots of out-of-school activities and is also a base for volunteer programs.
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SendaSur
A partner-based ecotourism network in Chiapas, Sendasur can help with independent travel and reservations in the Lacandón Jungle.
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Natutur
This Italian operator does Lacandón Jungle trips of three to seven days and Laguna Miramar excursions.
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Los Pingüinos
Bicycle tours from half a day to two weeks. Bike hire for four/six/nine hours costs M$130/160/180.
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Zapata Tours
Above Madre Tierra restaurant. Recommended tour agency offering day trips.
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Dunham Institute
Has multiweek Spanish classes with homestay available from M$8450.
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