San Cristobal accommodation, Mexico

The accommodation offers you the opportunity to stay in the heart of San Cristobal de las Casas in an historic colonial house. The house has been renovated using natural materials and local craftsmen to preserve its original features, brick floors and traditional adobe structure to remain in harmony with the historic centre of town.

We try and live by ecological principles and encourage our guests to use local markets and introduce them to organic vegetable growers and local weaving cooperatives that directly benefit the local producers. We recycle wherever possible and make compost for our gardens. The house was converted using local craftsmen and materials some of which have been recycled e.g. We found old wood where possible & reused old brick on the floor. All our employees are local people, and we try to use products from the region. The textiles have all been made locally.

We expect some of the guests will be interested in taking Spanish lessons and we work with one of the language schools available (Casa en el arbol). We regularly organise special lunches for the Old People’s Home Casa de Ancianos and supply them with bakery goods.

All guests are encouraged not to be wasteful with valuable resources such as water and respect the use of gas and electricity. We leave bins for recycling waste and give them information about local shops and markets. We use energy saving light bulbs.

We also work with organic vegetable producers and put our guests in contact with them. The garden is organic and full of humming birds! We run a wholewheat bakery and own a restaurant in town and where possible use vegetables grown organically. There is now a thriving local organic market on Saturdays that we encourage our guests to use. Cheeses are available from Lacteos Maya, produced on farms in the area.