| Dear family, special friends and guests, Plan your winter escape It's that time of year when most of you are planning your escape from cold, dreary winter weather to warmer tropical climates like peaceful Yucatan, with its' rich Mayan culture. Here's an update on news from the Yucatan Peninsula and the Land of the Mayans. Please feel free to forward our website to your family, friends and contacts.
New sights and activities New to the region, located along the PUUC route, is a fascinating Chocolate Eco-Museum, one of only four in the world! The museum is perfectly located near Flycatcher Inn B&B Boutique Hotel. Here, your hosts take you through all stages of producing chocolate, from growing cacao beans right through to handing you a cup of chocolate, and describing it's significance and importance to the Mayan world. This site is well worth adding to your itinerary. For other new and interesting sightseeing ideas, such as touring a rare grand Hacienda with Green Gold (heneken) production still in progress today, see the various attractions described in detail on our Flycatcher Inn website Activities & Itineraries page. For those of you interested in fine arts and culture, we recommend several artists in particular for you to visit their workshops and see them creating their special pieces. Four of the best authentic Mayan ceramists on the Yucatan Peninsula work quite near to Flycatcher Inn and all do very fine reproduction pieces of the old Mayan pottery, using meticulously sourced supplies such as specific clays and pigments in the old tradition. In addition there is a fine local woodcarver, Miguel, who is also the owner of a nearby ethnic restaurant. Another wonderfully talented local artist, Pedro, will carve beautiful designs in native vegetable gourds for you. Pedro's place is situated on a hilltop with a sweeping panoramic view over the entire countryside. Definitely worth a visit. Renovations and enhanced services Flycatcher Inn Boutique Hotel is well and looking better than ever. Click here for photos. We have spent much time this past year renovating and redecorating with Mayan art and style. Upon arrival you are greeted with a complimentary cold refreshing juice or iced tea drink, and as always we provide complimentary purified water in your room, with unlimited refills. We have also enhanced our homemade healthy breakfast menu, which is complimentary with your stay. It includes fresh local fruit (often fresh picked from the trees on our property), juice (also sometimes fresh from our own trees such as the citrus-like tamarind), our own daily ground blend of gourmet organic coffee from nearby Chiapas, whole grain toast, real butter, jams, local Yucatan honey, and a choice of four different egg dishes. Guests are really enjoying our newly remodelled terrace to relax with drinks and snacks in the afternoon. Swing in a hammock and laze away the siesta hours! You will probably get lucky and see small animals called Agoutis as they play in the gardens looking for fallen fruit from our trees. Here you will also see many of our native birds, the stunning yellow and black Flycatchers that are our namesake being just a few of them. Breakfast is also served on our newly redesigned terrace, or if you prefer you may still dine indoors. This year's renovations included significantly enhancing the lower gardens, making a beautiful secluded setting for guests in the cottages and rooms there. Many of the more exotic tropical plants we have collected during our travels around the area are now flowering. The Heliconias in particular are stunning, both the erect and the hanging species; the erect ones looking like small banana trees to which they are related. Their colourful flower pods start about two feet up the stalk, where several stems form a fan design alternately branching left and right, each looking much like a parrot's beak. Truly unusual. These large dramatic flowers bloom for a month or more, as do the lovely lush Red Ginger flowers. One of our most intriguing plants is Ginger Shampoo, having a tall vibrant flower that resembles a bright yellow artichoke, with small bird beak shapes peeking out of each section of the pod. The whole pod turns red at the end of it's blooming cycle. You can see good photographs of our Ginger Shampoo on the Photo Gallery page of our website, along with another pretty flower called Violetta. We are anxiously awaiting blooms on both the Bird of Paradise and The Emperor's Bastón! Such very unusual names! Voted #1 accommodation for Uxmal, Yucatan On the world's largest travel site, TripAdvisor, travellers have for years voted Flycatcher Inn Boutique Hotel the best Uxmal accommodation. And in May of 2011 TripAdvisor awarded us their Certificate of Excellence. Thanks go to all of you who have taken the time to submit your valuable comments and appreciation, making us #1. Find us on TripAdvisor to download a discount coupon for your stay with Flycatcher Inn Boutique Hotel Uxmal. New Book Some of you know that during the 20 years I (Kristine) have lived here I have been writing. What started as stories about life and culture immersion, as it happened to me during that time, have now at last been compiled into a much requested and long anticipated book, including many photos. 'Tales from the Yucatan Jungle: Life in a Mayan Village' will be published shortly, available through Amazon USA, Canada, and Europe. For full details click the book link under Regional History and Stories on the Activities & Itineraries page of our website. Many thanks to all of you who have long and oft requested the book, and so patiently awaited it's publication. Judging from early feedback, you won't be disappointed! See You Soon Santiago and the girls and I are well. We look forward to seeing returning guests and your family and friends, and greeting new ones. We thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts for your many recommendations and support of our family operated Boutique Hotel, featuring art from the corners of Mexico. Contact us to make your reservations now. Sincerely, Santiago & Kristine Flycatcher Inn B&B Boutique Hotel Uxmal 10 minutes southeast of Uxmal in Santa Elena, Yucatan, Mexico |
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