Tumul K'in

Yesterday I spent a fascinating afternoon at the Open House of Tumul K’in, a non-governmental boarding school seeking to provide empowering alternative education based on Maya values to underprivileged rural youth…by fusing modern and Maya science, philosophy and technology.  In many ways it is similar to the St. John’s Schools where I once taught.
There were displays of the student’s work, opportunities to buy their farm products, and all sorts of contests from native marimba dancing to greased pole climbing.


Tumul K’in is in the village of Blue Creek which boasts a lovely river with a wet cave where you swim up the underground river to a waterfall.  I haven’t even seen that yet, but perhaps when my sister visits next week.