Travel Guide Lacanja

Lacanjá-Chansayab is the best known (and largest) of the five Lacandon villages, whose sedentary settlement was encouraged by the Mexican government in the 1960s. Until the 1990s, an airstrip still welcomed small cuckoos in this lost corner of the forest, even though the place was already accessible by road. Today, this extensively built tropical village has two main "arteries": the first is the access road from Crucero San Javier, which crosses the old airstrip in a place that could be considered the "center" of the village (there is the school and a grocery store); at the very end of this dead-end road is another grocery store that has the only decent Internet connection (you can also drink a small beer under the awning, sitting on old car seats). From these two main roads, there are many pedestrian paths that usually lead to a campamento, the local equivalent of the centros ecoturisticos: almost every family has its own facilities, usually on the banks of a river where you can cool off. The place is very quiet and you can easily spend several days doing nothing