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Tour of San Juan Chamula and Zinacantan

Tour of San Juan Chamula and Zinacantan

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Price is AU$38 per adult
Features
  • 6h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

This tour the pick up starts at 9:00 am, he went to pick you up at your hotel. The duration of the collection lasts 30 min. Tour in Spanish and English.
After Pickup at the indicated hotel, we will start our transfer to the indigenous community of San Juan Chamula where we will get to know the Church and its religious traditions, and visit the traditional pantheon. Later we will move to Zinacantán to appreciate the church and then visit a community family to learn how to make their typical clothing on a backstrap loom and enjoy their traditional cuisine. The tour ends in the centre of San Cristóbal de las Casas.

Activity location

  • San Juan Chamula
    • San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • San Juan Chamula
    • San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico

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Tour of San Juan Chamula and Zinacantan
  • Activity duration is 6 hours6h6h
  • Spanish

Pickup included

Language options: Spanish
Starting time: 9:30 am
Price details
AU$37.63 x 1 AdultAU$37.63

Total
Price is AU$37.63

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedAir-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's includedAll Fees and Taxes
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood and drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedEntrance to the Church in San Juan Chamula, additional cost of Mx 50.00

Know before you book

  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

San Juan Chamula
  • 2h
After the Pickup at the indicated hotel, we will begin our transfer to the indigenous community of San Juan Chamula where we will get to know the Church and its religious traditions, and we will visit the traditional pantheon.
Church of St. Juan Bautista
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
For a small fee, tourists can visit the church, a very peculiar place whose interior cannot be photographed due to the same beliefs of the inhabitants. The architecture of the temple is colonial in style, however, both the interior and exterior are painted white and the stone of the original construction has been completely covered. Inside there are no traditional benches to sit and pray, as the inhabitants kneel and pray. They create a very special mystical atmosphere by performing rituals that are the product of the mixture of the evangelization of the 16th century with the pre-Hispanic Mayan religious beliefs. Believers pray in front of multicoloured candles of different sizes, there are usually rows of candles attached to the ground. Also the floor is almost completely covered with the branch of a pine, since the Chamula beliefs consider it a sacred tree and with the objective of being in front of God, they come closer through the pine and the candlelight
Cementerio de San Juan Chamula (Pass by)
The cemetery is a peculiar place, where the tombs have no headstones and the crosses are of multiple colours.
Iglesia de San Lorenzo
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
The temple of San Lorenzo Mártir, in Zinacantán, is one of the architectural jewels of Mexico and the world. The church of colonial origin, remodeled at the beginning of the 20th century, is an essential part of the economic life of the area, due to the tourist influx that visits it.
Zinacantan
  • 45m
  • Admission ticket included
Then we visit a family from the community to learn how they make their typical clothes on a backstrap loom, and savour a bite in their traditional cuisine.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESSan Juan Chamula
    • San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLESan Juan Chamula
    • San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico

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