![]() ![]() ![]() Go for tacos and burritos packed with rajas and eggplant plus a buffet line of salsas and toppings. Her organization, Cooperativa Eco-Vegana, cofounded with her sister, works to support and uphold local agriculture, community, and plant-based cooking-and slings out incredible food at this Saturday market. Once you've managed to unplug, you might lose motivation to leave the property, but you would miss out on the Eco Tianguis Sanka farmers market in “Zihua” (it's what the locals call Zihuatanejo), launched by Gabriela Quintero (of the band Rodrigo y Gabriela). There is organic cotton bedding, natural bath products, and thick Mexican blankets for chilly nights. My meandering wooden treehouse has two bedrooms, a bathroom, and shower the master bedroom has its own balcony beneath the roof outcropping and a permanent hammock over 10 feet up in the air. If you flew above Playa Viva, the treehouses would resemble that captivating scene. The room I’m staying in is called Dune Manta, inspired by an aerial view of the mobula manta ray migration. ![]() In 2022, the resort unveiled six new treehouses, all crafted from natural materials grown onsite and all with the promise that the sound of soft waves will lull you to sleep each night. Dinner brings additional proteins, like an entire salt-baked fish, sourced from the farm and from local fisherfolk and filled to the brim in locally made clay pots. A late lunch features various salads served with an addictive house sesame dressing, beans, rice, and pozole. After the daily yoga class on a wooden platform with views of the crashing tide, you can head back to the communal dining area for a second breakfast, abundant with fresh tortillas griddled on the comal and eggs cooked to order. The all-inclusive food is plentiful and mostly plant-based, with an early breakfast spread of chia pudding, fresh fruit, vibrant juices, and coffee with frothy homemade coconut milk. For guests who care to learn more about it, farm manager Amanda Harris and her team will happily guide you for a farm tour, but even if you don't visit and see the goldenrod turmeric slices or magenta jamaica flowers drying on racks in the sun, you will certainly taste them come mealtime. Playa Viva also recently received its B-Corp Certification, earning a top score of 110, the highest of any B-Corp Certified hotel to date.Ī permaculture farm onsite provides nearly all the resort's produce and meat, and also sells its goods at the local markets. At the core of that onion is the principle of sustainability: Since 2008, Playa Viva has been running 100 percent on off-grid solar power, solar thermal hot water, and grey- and black-water processing. The founding hotel in the Regenerative Travel collection (there are now 29), the property is made up of 99 percent outdoor accommodations including 18 treehouses over 200 acres of nature reserve. As owner David Leventhal says, “There’s a lot of layers to the onion.” But one could write many stories on Playa Viva. I can tell you that the average guest I encountered had been here before, several times even, a testament alone to plan a visit. I will tell you about the rooms, the amenities, the food, and the immersive relaxation to be had here. The WiFi password is “disconnect2reconnect,” a slight jab reminding you to put the device down and be present to the incredible surroundings. This is Playa Viva, where there’s a bigger turnout for the baby turtle release before 6:30am than at the bar come happy hour. Playa Viva's onsite sea turtle sanctuary is worth waking up early for a visit. La Tortuga Viva, the onsite sea turtle sanctuary, has saved more than half a million turtles including some of the endangered leatherback species. And then, in the still-dark, I saw it, a just hatched baby turtle taking its very first, sloppy steps into the surf. “Just keep walking and you’ll see them,” they told me when I checked into Playa Viva, the regenerative eco-resort that is my home here for the next four days.Įventually, perhaps half a mile down the beach, I came upon a group of people staring at the ground. It’s 6:23 in the morning and I’m stumbling alone in the dark along the Pacific coastline, south of Zihuatanejo in Juluchuca, Mexico. ![]()
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