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ACTIVITIES
Packages Workshops Location Located at the south end of Chacala Bay, "Majahua" overlooks the ocean and the Chacala beach. Its suites are designed to be comfortable and esthetically pleasing; each has its own outdoor terrace where you can relax. Coconut palms beautify the long stretch of sandy beach below. The village of Chacala has a dozen restaurants that serve delicious seafood. Pamper yourself with a good massage, read your favorite book, swim or take a walk and go bird watching. There are wonderful places to visit nearby such as Alta Vista for prehispanic petroglyphs, Guayabitos for snorkeling, La Caleta for surfing. Horseback riding and boat trips for whale watching are available.
Reservations:
from México: 01 (327) 219 40 54from USA: 52 (327) 219 40 54
·Majahua is located at the base of an extinct volcano, on the edge of a beautiful cove. The palms and fig trees forested hillside is home of masked tityras, black-throated magpie jays, mexican blue-rumped parrot lets, and more. The local hibiscus attracts endemic hummingbirds. The neighboring field has nesting painted buntings in the spring, and vermilion flycatchers in the winter. A nearby creek bed and freshwater lagoon draws in egrets, herons, night herons, tree ducks, cormorants, and kingfishers. The beach front visitors include pelicans, frigate birds, willets, and whimbrels. Our nearby Guyabitos Island has nesting brown and blue-footed boobies, frigate birds, and pelicans. Trips to the famous birding area La Tovara can be arranged. The open boat ride up the mangrove estuary offers kingfishers, egrets, herons and a view of the mexican endemic boat-billed heron.
For the intermediate or the beginnner surfer that has spent only a few days considering the waves and practicing, a 30 minute drive to Platanitos has proven to be successful grounds for learning. It is a sand bottom river mouth beach break that likes northwesterly swell. The beach is white sand bordered by a coconut plantation; there are many pleasant miles to walk while your favorite surfers try to pull into the snappy long waves.
For advanced surfers Punta Caleta, a left breaking point, is accesible by boat only. There are two different swell seasons, the south swell during hurricane season and the northwesterly winter swell. The summer's south season is less consistent, but can jack up to double overhead barrels or open gently sloped faces. In the winter months, after the change of season arround Christmas, the consistent head high waves from the North arrive. These break steeper and with more speed than the southerly swells, making for two or three fast workable sections. There are sea urchins and the shore is rocky, but there is a small beach for resting or for spectators.
The boat is around $250.- pesos ( about $24 U.S.D.) divided between all participants. Chacala is an excellent location for a surfer eager to try a handfull of different waves; within an hour's drive, there are numerous secluded breaks.
A 30 minutes drive from Majahua or a 3hr horse back riding, takes us to this mystic place with more than 56 petroglyphs sculpt from 300 B.C. up to the XVI century. Some arqueologists say that they were made by the Tecoxquines indians of the pre-colombian period. Others say they belong to the Aztatlan tradition.
Now days there are still hicholes indians worshiping and offering at this energetic spot.
From the nearby town of El Divisadero, comes Gaudino with his horses to excursion the surroundings, Las Cuevas (one-hour ride each way) and to Playa El Naranjo( two-hour ride each way) or Altavista an archeological site.