Foody Sunday at the Tlacolula Market Oaxaca’s Sundays move at a different rhythm, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the Tianguis de Domingo in Tlacolula de Matamoros. While most visitors stay close to Oaxaca City on weekends, this…

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Hiking to the Blue Lakes of Montebello Chiapas is full of places that reward curiosity, but every so often we come across a site that feels genuinely overlooked. The Lagunas de Montebello is one of those places. We visited to…

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Meeting the Women Behind Bankilal Café Morning light settled over the hills of Tenejapa as we arrived. The air was cool, the landscape quiet except for the sound of water moving through the manantiales (water springs) the community bought decades…

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Science Meets Storytelling: Shining New Light on the Maya World At this year’s Viaventure Guide Training in the Yucatán, our keynote speaker was Francisco Estrada-Belli, a National Geographic Explorer and leading Maya archaeologist. For our guides, who bring travelers to…

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A Dream 40 Years in the Making: Carlos’s Journey to Tikal At the farewell dinner of our Guide Traingin on Akumal’s shores, mariachis played while guides swapped stories from the week. That’s when Carlos Vivar, “Caliche” to his colleagues, learned…

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Where Excellence Meets Experience: Guide Training 2025 Over 50 guides from five countries came together in the Yucatán this fall for Viaventure’s annual guide training. They traveled from Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, and Panama. These veteran storytellers have spent…

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