Respect for Local Practices
We guide you through local traditions with care and clarity, so you feel connected and confident. Together we honor and preserve the customs that make our region unique.
Xochimilco, Mexico City
We glide through the living canals and floating gardens of Xochimilco — sharing food, ancestral farming and the smiley-faced axolotl, while every peso flows back to the people who call this water home.
Us
We believe in balancing purpose and profit, making sure our work benefits both our guests and the local community. We team up with local providers and use products sourced right from the area, so your money goes directly to supporting local businesses. We look for experiences committed to reducing waste — no single-use plastics or plastic bottles — creating high-quality days that care for local wellbeing and the planet alike.
We guide you through local traditions with care and clarity, so you feel connected and confident. Together we honor and preserve the customs that make our region unique.
Every experience reflects our commitment to nature. We reduce waste by avoiding single-use plastics, and by choosing local products we support sustainability and authenticity.
Every supplier and expert we work with matters. Our collaborations strengthen local development, so your enjoyment directly contributes to community wellbeing.
We design hands-on experiences that go beyond the ordinary — blending joyfulness with deep cultural awareness and the principles of natural conservation.
The experiences
Each day is proudly plastic-free, built on fair trade, and rooted in active conservation. Choose your pace — a feast, a paddle, a slow morning on the water.
Glide the canals on a colourful trajinera, hand-pick market goodies, build an authentic taco placero on a working chinampa, and meet the axolotl.
An immersive journey into ancestral agriculture — peaceful canals, the birdwatching of Laguna del Toro, the Sabinos tunnel, and hands-on farming.
A peaceful paddle through lesser-travelled canals away from the crowds, pausing at an active chinampa to learn how this ancient system stays alive.
A peaceful morning trajinera ride with a seasonal breakfast on board — café de olla, tamales and pan dulce, or a fresh plant-based alternative.
A peaceful afternoon trajinera ride with a regional lunch on board — taco placero with chicharrón and guacamole, or seasonal tlacoyos.
The people
Musicians, architects, linguists and growers — neighbours of Xochimilco who care for its water, its food and its stories.
Communication & guiding
A communication and language enthusiast with a background in journalism and a Master’s in Applied Linguistics. She has guided in Xochimilco for two years, sharing the history of the canals and its cultural heritage. Off the water she crafts handmade notebooks (@ipseidad_bookbinding), plays with calligraphy and ebru painting, and is a certified diver.
Landscape architecture
Born and raised in Xochimilco, Bety studied architecture at UNAM and specialised in Landscape Architecture. For four years she has worked alongside the chinamperos developing biofilters to improve water quality and restore the landscape. In 2020 she won a contest with Mexico City’s culture secretary to develop a Cultural Communal Collective program — soil and landscape rehabilitation, reforestation, biofilters, and murals of Mexica deities for the Route of the Gods.
Music & ecology
A musician whose path led to Xochimilco. After composing music for a film about the axolotl, Sahé came to understand that it is not only the axolotl fighting for survival but the people who care for this environment — and feels deeply connected to the community that protects it.
Permaculture & movement
Graphic Communication Design graduate (UAM-Xochimilco). After working in film, Eiru trained abroad in contemporary dance, contact improvisation and ecosomatics, then turned to plants, gardens, permaculture and bioconstruction — learning from syntropic forests and regenerative processes across Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Now works in tourism on the chinampas of Xochimilco.
Strategy & sustainability
A strategy and sustainability advisor with 20+ years of international experience across 17 countries — banking, finance, food & beverage, mining and technology. A former economist at General Electric and Banco de México, she holds an MBA in Strategy and Sustainable Enterprise (University of Oregon) and an MSc in Sustainability (Blekinge Institute of Technology). A speaker at the United Nations and other forums, fluent in Spanish, English and French.
A glimpse
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