Summer Workshops - Turismo de Aventura en La Manzanilla!

   As slow and sleepy as everything may seem during the summer in La Manzanilla somewhere up in the jungle last week  there was a loud group of villagers of all ages being led up stream in to the thick forest by an expert in "Turismo de Aventura" and all extreme nature experiences!

La Manzanilla's most extreme!

   Some Members of the Ejido of  La Manzanilla have been excercising their ability to request support and programs from several Federal Commissions and Secretaries, they started working with an advisor Olivier Robert who facilitated several programs financed by the CONAFOR ( Mexico's National Commission of Forestry) for our Ejido. One of these programs is a workshop on "Turismo de Aventura".

   

   Learning the elements of interpretative trails 

   David Andrade is an expert who instructed and briefed all those who attended to the free workshop in many things like  camping, camping safety, rock climbing, geological observation, bird watching, flora and fauna appreciation as well as basic knots.

Briefing on safety

Lin doing Rapel, something probably

 never done before in Las Joyas.

The group of future nature tourist guides relaxing.

Here we have David lecturing in the Casa Ejidal about 

the type of activities you could potentially realize in Las Joyas.

   The objective of this and other workshops is to promote creative thinking amongst the participants, creative thinking regarding ways to conduct eco-friendly activities around the Ejido territory that can be low impact on the environment but (hopefully) highly lucrative. The members of the Ejido are looking for more options other than creating more lots for sale and maybe perpetuating that same desire of conservation in their youth by training them and giving them knowledge of their natural surroundings as a skill, a skill that may be marketable in the future. 

  Las Joya's only chance of survival like many other precious natural areas faced with growing populations, might be to become a sort of park, or the scenario were this type of "Eco-tourism" activities take place.

   Contact us to learn of ways to support this motion.

Special Thanks to:

Lin Magali Loza, 

Aby Ramos,

David Andrade and 

Ejido La Manzanilla.