Special events:

Yaxche Maya Cuisine Restaurant has special dinners and performances throughout the year to celebrate and preserve the Mayan culture.

Hanal Pixan: Food for the souls. The day of the death November 2nd
This is the day when the Mayan would pay tribute to their loved ones by presenting offerings, especially food.

Green day: The day out of time July 25th in the Tzolkin calendar also called the 13 moon calendar. Each year represents a cyclic count based on the moons movement, with its four stages of 7 days (28 days per moon), which adds up to 13 moons per year or 364 rotation days, leaving one day out of time on July 25th after which the moon cycle begins again.

Equinox: Twice a year in Chichen Itza´s pyramid, with the projection of the sun’s rays, you are able to see a rattlesnake of light and shadow. March 20, 21 and September 21,22.

Sacred sea offerings: The sea festival is on May 20-22nd. This festival is to pay tribute to an ancient prehispanic pilgrimage, dedicated to the goddess Ix Chel, keeper of the fertility, the flowers and the duality between old Mayan villages. This is celebrated with a fleet of rafts making a crossing of around 7 hours and once arrived to port, making a symbolic offering to this goddess.

The New fire: December 31st. The Mayan celebrated the end and the beginning of every cycle for their belief was that time was endless and cycles never ended, they only changed in our minds.

Corn Day: April 26th. The main reason for the Mayan to celebrate was to be grateful. Acknowledgment and gratitude were the most important amongst their society. That is why they celebrated the Corn, which brought life to their people. This was done by paying tribute to the colors of nature: Black means resting, White is the color of life (air, bones, eyes), Yellow means maturity (the seeds, the core), Green means the environment (nature, plants) and Blue is for the atmosphere (space and water).

Traditional events: