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Mexico Chiapas Tour visiting the Sumidero Canyon, Cima de las Cotorras, Apic pac, Sima de las Cotorras, La Venta Canyon, Aguacero waterfall, La Encrucijada, La Palma community, Chantuto lake and Zacapulco

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Day 01:
Sumidero Canyon and Cima de las Cotorras

• Reception at Tuxtla Gutierrez airport or bus station
• Drive to Cahuare (30 minutes) where we take a motor boat to visit the impressive Sumidero Canyon, (2 hour or so and be sure to bring binoculars)
• Lunch included in Chiapa de Corzo in a typical restaurant
• After visiting the viewpoints of the canyon, continuing to the Sima de las Cotorras (Top of the Parrots) also called Copal
• Lodging in the cabins of the place
• Rest of the afternoon free
• Overnight.

Day 02: 08:00 hrs.

• After breakfast
• Travel within this perimeter impressive karst pit where hundreds of parrots living in the vegetation from February to October
• See the rock paintings, (be sure to bring binoculars)
• Continue to the Netzhualcoyotl dam through the Ocote jungle and arrive to Apic pac community
• Take the boat motor for a boat ride to see some waterfalls
• Continuing to the boxed called "The Cave of the Parrots" sort of cave about 700 meters where enter with the boat to see the interesting rock formations
• When the water level is low you enter walking becoming an interesting experience
• Lunch included at local restaurant
• Return to the Sima de las Cotorras
• Overnight.

Day 03: 08:00 hrs.
Cañon de la Venta, Aguacero waterfall, La Encrucijada, La Palma community

• After breakfast at 08:00 hrs.
• Continue to the Cañon de la Venta (canyon) to visit the Rain waterfall, to make this visit is necessary to ascend and descend about 826 steps
• Free time to swim and walk into the canyon
• Around 11:45 begin the journey of four hours to the Encrucijada (crossroads) is a largest and highest  nature reserve of mangrove in Latin America
• Lunch en route in the city of Tonala
• Arrive at the pier Las Garzas (Herons) to board the motor boat to take us to the fishing community of La Palma
• Accommodation in ecological cabins of the place
• At a convenient hour dinner at a family house or in a restaurant or the cooperative
• Overnight.

Day 04:
La Palma, La Encrucijada, Chantuto lake, Zacapulco

• Breakfast prepared by local women
• Begin a walk through the community to know the daily lives of its residents, visiting homes, schools, traditional bread oven
• Then take a motor boat that will take us a excursion through mangrove tunnels inside the reserve of La Encrucijada (the crossroads) where we can admire the high mangroves with its aerial roots, tiger herons, white and gray, pelicans and other species in the nest
• Continue to lake Chantuto to learn fishing for shrimp
• Return to Palm, welcome lunch in local restaurant
• After lunch we go to the seashore Zacapulco
• Visit the turtle camp and be in the secluded beaches to walk and be in contact with the sea and go fishing with a fishhook
• Return and at a convenient hour dinner and overnight.

• Board the canoe to learn fishing with trolling rod
• Breakfast on board
• Continue to seashore Zacapulco where local women prepare us the lunch
• Rest on the beach
• Back to Palma
• Night fishing practice
• Overnight.

• After breakfast we returned to dock Las Garzas (herons)
• Continue to Tuxtla Gutierrez or San Cristobal de las Casas
• End of services.

Net rate by person, in US Dollars: valid rate until December 16, 2012*
These tours are available minimum for 2 persons, in shared service.

• Ground transportation in cars or vans depending on the number of people
• Shared boat in La Encrucijada
• Local guide. ( English / Spanish)
• Entrance fees
• Accommodation in 4 star hotel, 2 nights in Ecological cabins in La Cima de las Cotorras, 3 nights in Ecological cabins in La Encrucijada
• Travel insurance
• Taxes

• ANY Air ticket international or domestic.
• Personal expenses, meals, beverages, tips to guide and drivers, tips to bellboys and chambermaids at hotel.
• And services not clearly mentioned in program.