Hacienda del Cuyo ground floor, penthouse and Casa Maya Lodge
On our days off we like to explore the Yucatan to learn about the legendary Mayan culture, and are trying to get away from our busy life.
One day we happened to be in El Cuyo. The arrival was amazing...we crossed a pink lagoon with hundreds of pink flamingos .. and we came to a quiet village full of coconut palms.
You pass a Maya pyramid on which a lighthouse is built, and now you can even climb the lighthouse.
The streets in El Cuyo are still made of sand, coconut palm trees as far as the eye can see and endless fine white sandy beaches.
We have been to many places in Yucatan, but none of them had coconut palms as they were wiped out by a plague.
Not so in El Cuyo, all the palm trees in the village and on the beach were still there, we were delighted with the Caribbean feeling, and then every free weekend we visited this heavenly quiet place until someone offered us a small house for sale. At that time it only consisted of a ground floor. We fell in love with this 'rough diamond' immediately and renovated it with a lot of passion. We didn't even think about renting it out as an apartment.
Then we built the penthouse on the 1st floor and the Casa Maya Lodge on the 2nd floor.
Hacienda Antigua
We bought this apartment in 2002 and lovingly converted it into a hacienda Antigua in 2012. Outside, a natural stone facade was painstakingly handcrafted, inside a Maya artist from Izamal decorated the house with hand-painted details. A large, typical, pyramid-shaped palapa was built above the terrace.
A year later we built the hacienda lodge with its own shower room, kitchenette and a mosquito-free terrace.