The people

Where your money actually goes.

Not a resort activity desk. A kitchen, a beekeeper, a boat, and the people who run them.

Receipts, not slogans

Every operator says they support local communities.

So here are the names instead. When you book a day, most of what you pay leaves my hands the same week and goes to these people, in cash, at the door.

Hands turning handmade corn tortillas on a comal over a wood fire

Doña Mari

Cochinita and tortillas by hand, on a comal over wood. She opens at seven and she is out by ten, which is why we go early.

A beekeeper lifting a frame of honeycomb from a hive

Don Efra

Meliponas, the stingless bees the Maya have kept for a thousand years. The honey tastes like nothing you have had.

Photograph goes hereWith their permission, and their name

The boat guys at the coast

Two brothers, one panga, no website. If you go out on the water with me, you go out with them.

This page grows. Everyone here gets asked before their photo and their name go up, and everyone here gets paid the same whether you book or not.

Tell me what you love.
I’ll build the day.

No forms full of questions you don’t care about. Four quick things, and then I write back myself, usually within a couple of hours.