Cultural Activities & Guided Visits
La Casa en el Arbol offers an exciting array of organized activities for its students. Some of the activities during the week are not included in the price of the weekly tuition. Weekend activities outside San Cristobal usually have a small fee for transportation, guide fees, and food.
All these activities are included in the Spanish immersion program.
Museums & Places to See
The Maya Medicine Development Center:
This center still cures people using ancient Mayan medicine, mostly using plants. Birth are still given in a traditional way.
The Museum of Ambar
You will learn about the peculiarity of the ambar of chiapas as well as see unique pieces with incrusted insects. Tips about how to recognize real ambar will be given.
A Paper Workshop Cooperative
This cooperative recycles paper making beautiful pieces of art as well as books. One technique consists of incrusting petals from a variety of colored flowers. Pre-Hispanic paper is also made.
The Museum of Traditional Costumes
This unique museum has rare costumes from indigenous villages. Each costume has a meaning and is characteristic to a village. The museum founder, our guide, spent his life healing people for free as well as building schools and water reservoirs in various communities.
San Cristóbal Traditional Market
You feel like going back in time. A must see!
Coffee Museum
This short visit will guide you through the steps of how coffee is processed, from the land to your cup.
Mayan villages
CHAMULA
This popular village proudly keeps strong traditions and character.
The ceremonies occuring within the church of the main place are a mix of Maya culture & Catholic traditions.
ZINACANTAN
This village keeps strong traditions too. It is famous for his clothes and fields of flowers.
You may visit an indigenous back-strap loom weaving cooperative run by women.
Culture Events
Feature-length films and discussions revolving around Central American themes. Weekly conferences sponsored by the school, given by guest lecturers on themes such as:
- The impact of the FTA and the WTO in Mexico
- Puebla-Panama Plan
- History of Chiapas
- The influence of Globalization
- Traditions and customs
- Religious diversity
- Zapatista uprising
- and much more...
- You may suggest a topic.
