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Sierra Manantlán Biósphere Reserve, Cuzalapa Coffee Cooperative and
La Concha Petroglyphs Tour |
| Join us on a full day tour from Barra de Navidad and Melaque into the hills behind the Costalegre and Manzanillo where you’ll have the opportunity to explore pre-Hispanic petroglyphs and visit a church that is over 200 year-old in a quaint mountain village. You’ll also meet the people of Cuzalapa, a remote semi-indigenous village in the Sierra Manantlán Biosphere Reserve where the women have started coffee and embroidery cooperatives as a way of sustaining their families using the raw materials and skills they have available to them.
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| We leave Barra de Navidad – one hour north of Manzanillo Colima and 10 minutes south of Melaque by bus or car, between 8:00 and 9:00 am your choice. Following highway 80 into the hills we’ll travel through La Huerta, La Concha and Cuautitlán on our way to Cuzalapa where we’ll enjoy a coffee break featuring fresh roasted, shade grown, organic arabica coffee along with breads and muffins made by the ladies of the area using native plants and fruits. |
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| After our break we will tour the many different plots of over 100 year-old coffee plants that make up the Cuzalapa Coffee Cooperative. There is also time to shop for home made jams, jellies and pickles and hand made, hand embroidered manta clothing made by the Cuzalapa Ladies Embroidery Cooperative. |
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| Day Trips |
| For an additional $100 pesos you may also choose to add an optional hike to a lovely waterfall to your tour. The hike involves about an hour of light climbing through the woods along trails. After the hike to the falls or the tour of the coffee plantations and shopping in the cooperative we'll have lunch prepared by the ladies of the cooperative or we will eat in Cuautitlan. |
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In Cuautitlán we will tour the over 200 year-old church that features a beautifully hand painted interior. There will be time to stroll around the town and the lovely central Jardin before we are off to La Concha and the petroglyphs. |
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| For the short hike up to the petroglyphs you’ll want to make sure that you’ve put on some shoes with good grip because we will be doing some climbing over boulders and slabs of rock. It’s a short hike/climb though and the petroglyphs are really worth it. |
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Trip includes water and soft drinks, coffee and snack and full lunch with two beverages.
Prices
2 people $1,500 pesos each
3 people $1,400 pesos each
4 people $1,100 pesos each
5 people $950 pesos each
6 people $850 pesos each
7 people $850 pesos each
Contact us for more information. |
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