Nanciyaga is possibly the only place around Catemaco, Veracruz that retains a commercialized version of the mystery of the Los Tuxtlas magic. Founded in the early 1980’s, this small Laguna Catemaco enclave gained publicity and funds with the filming in its reserve of the movie Medicine Man with Sean Connery. Since then Nanciyaga has turned itself into an ecology reserve and a small Disney World of magic.
The owner was recently interviewed in a Mexican newspaper. Unfortunately that link has disappeared, but was stored on an older blog. Here is GOOGLE garbled translated version.
to read the original Spanish - click here.
Here you sleep with the music of the jungle
Aquí sí Con la música de la selva duerme
Caco, Carlos Rodríguez Ecologista:
Here you sleep with the music of the jungle
"He lived the destruction of forests in Latin America and eventually became a pioneer of ecological tourism. Black sheep of a family of cigar makers, Carlos Rodríguez, known as Cocoa, 62, bought the 40 in a swampy area in Lake Catemaco (Veracruz) and created Nanciyaga Ecological Reserve, park living and a kind of pre-Hispanic spa , temascal baths (with red volcanic stone), mud, massage and clean witch. Their cabins are among the most coveted rooms in Mexico.
"I always thought that a day would have a jungle, like when I was niño." Then everything was beautiful, it was all bush and forest. Although my grandfather told me that there were many animals as possible. You went from here to the sea and it was all jungle, crystal clear rivulets, there was no garbage or plastic. Nanciyaga was always a need, I could do later.
"His tenacity born of a kind of youthful trauma, right?" I studied veterinary medicine and came back. Governments started to distribute land, until a national commission was cut and a law that you could accuse of having vacant land if there was rain on your ranch. Not measured the consequences. Some lands were used for agriculture, others for livestock, but after a while the quality of livestock and corn was poor and did not work. The lands were not to survive and forest that had been abandoned.
He saw the birth of the chain saw ... "I got to see that fucking invention of the chainsaw, that mill by allowing Tatil end it all. Progress was to end Sunday with the last circle of mountain and organize the slaughter of animals who had taken refuge allí. "That's why he left the guild ganadero." I sold my ranch and I bought this place. I had to do something productive and show that the forest does more to break down the trees and grassland. And the idea worked, but they told me I was crazy and was not viable.
- Did the government? "Rather refused to accept that this was a reservoir, said he was too young. After a thousand red tape, was registered as an ecological reserve education. But we are showing that there are options in the forest production .-
What about education? "We make a major environmental education. Come to discover the jungle areas many children I knew as a huge forest. They now live in the midst of bad grass, ill-gotten, ill agriculture. Here are many animals at the commencement feared man, and now we close, we do not have fear, you can portray, almost touching.
-Nanciyaga also gives trabajo. "We hired 60 people, a list that scares, especially in these times of storms and cyclones, which must continue Gandola pa. On vacation students hired as guides.
- What does the Nanciyaga "" We welcome tourists and we make a trip through the jungle, which are reproductions of antiquities, of our making. They go to a spring of mineral water and drinking from a hole dug as a vessel using a plant leaf apiche. It makes them a mineral mud mask ...
"He has a theater within the selva." We played a Mozart or Beethoven, and percussion music from Senegal and Cuba. We have also represented to Cervantes. At the musicians were afraid to put the instruments in the humidity of the jungle, but now everyone wants to come play .- "If you enter the bathhouse can sail with the wind," writes Laura Esquivel's novel "It's Malinche. bath vapor, culture of ancient Mexico. All had their houses and had a ritual bathhouse, another to make decisions for the tribe ... We tried to get closer to tradition. You can not describe, you have to get into it. I can say that is very healthy: eliminate toxins, the filth you have, and grow, there is a spiritual growth.
"Birth of a river of water carbónica.-On leaving the bathhouse, you get into a mineral water spring, a special gift we have here. We do not sell mineral water: we dive into it.
"The gem is the 10 cabañas." It's amazing that people come from Spain, or Israel, only to the cabins. La Mexicana review we cited as one of the most sought 10 rooms in Mexico. And, yes, we have taken out many times of trouble, because, although more expensive than the hotels are always full and booked months in advance. Rooms are privileged, because it sleeps cradled by the night music of the jungle.
"They have up to chamán." We do not want problems, and our shaman only makes a sweep of the aura with herbs from the forest. Not involved, such as Catemaco, evils of witchcraft love or black. The magic is not given by witchcraft, but by the natural magnetism of the region of Los Tuxtlas.
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