Na Bolom

... San Cristobal de Las Casas   no. 19 of 23 destinations (this is not a ranking)   Na Bolom - House of the Jaguar Part 4 of 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all admire someone outside of our ...

... more traditional Catholic church and a family who makes and sells traditional textile items from their chicken-scratched patio. Back at Na Bolom, we had dinner in the room and at the table where such notables as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo once dined ...

... avons vu et entendu. Mercredi 21 jan 09. Pendant que nous visitions les villages, les Roger et leur épouse sont allé visiter Na Bolom, une fondation venant en aide aux indiens locaux fondé par Frans et Trudy Blom. Ils sont revenus enchanté de leur ...

During our stay on the Costa Esmeralda we enjoyed many great times with a family from Australia.  Bev, Dave and their three children are touring North America for a year in a motor home.   Together we headed for Veracruz and a couple of ...

... , to the craft market and food market and saw where Anna stayed when she was there.  We also booked for dinner at Na Bolom where visitors, guests and volunteers come a sit round the enormous dining table and have a bit of a fiesta but ...

... Bolom was a Swiss woman who worked for years to help the Maya people. Here´s the website that has a bit more info on it: Na-Bolom After the tour it was back to the firepit at the hostel where I scared the Europeans again with my wood chopping ...

... of this was John´s face when we watched the graphic video of how Mayan women give birth!! We also went to a place called Na Bolom. This is an institute set up by Franz Blom and Gertrude ´Trudy´ Duby-Blom to ensure the Mayan culture is not wiped out by ...

Nancy is on her way home. I am staying on in Mexico for another week and a half. I've moved from Na Bolom to Casa Felipe Flores, which is closer to the center of town. A wonderful, friendly old hacienda adorned with tile and textiles. It is still ...

... had not assimilated Catholocism or other foreign customs.  Frans died in the '60s and Gertrude in 1994, but Casa Na-Bolom remains an important center for issues related to this Mayan group as well as rainforest-related ecological issues. ...

... Christobel as a base for the next year, doing all sorts of good stuff...we think they picked their spot very well!!! Na Bolom house; colonial mini-mansion lived in by Trudy and Frans Bolom (anthropologists, photograhers, explorer kinda people) at the ...