Travel service Rutopía links visitors with Mexican indigenous communities
Source：Newsweek Mexico
From：Taiwan Trade Center Mexico
Update Time：2019/05/24
Photo taken from Rutopia website.
A new travel company with a social conscience is enabling tourists to have unique and authentic experiences in Mexican indigenous communities, which in turn benefit financially from sharing their cultural and natural wealth.
Eighteen months ago, four friends and travel enthusiasts created Rutopía, a social enterprise that arranges trips to 12 different communities in six states.
Through Rutopía, foreigners and Mexicans alike can book immersive travel experiences of one to five days in four different destinations in Hidalgo, four in Chiapas, and one in each of the states of Oaxaca, Campeche, Quintana Roo and Michoacán.
Among the experiences offered are zip-lining and insect-eating in La Florida-Hidalgo, making the pre-Hispanic beverage of pulque and listening to local legends under the stars in El Almacén-Oaxaca, and swimming in a cenote and wildlife spotting in Uxuxubí-Quintana Roo.
The other destinations visitors can choose to visit are: Acaxochitlán, Valle del Mezquital and Santiago de Anay in Hidalgo; Tzimol, Tacaná, Tzizcao and El Triunfo in Chiapas; El Viente in Campeche; and Pátzcuaro Lake in Michoacán.
Learning how to make tortillas and mole (traditional dish), collecting and cooking mushrooms and visiting coffee plantations are some of the other activities that visitors can enjoy in the different communities.
According to the company, 70% to 80% of the price visitors pay for their trips goes to the hosts in the community while the other 20% to 30% covers Rutopía’s operational costs.
Source：https://www.newsweek.com/topic/mexico