Che'il Mayan Chocolate

https://www.facebook.com/cheilmayanproductsMy Friends and visitors, It gives me great opportunity to present to you our newest addition to Maya Center Mayan Museum - "The Chocolate Making Sessions" at the Museum, A living Mayan Museum.
My vision is to offer you the BEST of Real Mayan Culture and its authenticity. There could not a have a wonderful opportunity to experience the traditional Mayan way of making chocolate from bean to Bar, other than visiting us at the Museum. Several other visitors that came by had a wonderful experience and you can do the same.

 

Our Cacao Beans are grown by local farmers here in Maya Center Village and is certified Organic. Our Farmers are careful not to use any pesticide or herbicide.  

It is the vision of the Mayan Museum to assist our people to create employment within its people, through sustainable cultural tourism. 
Firstly we take you for a Farm tour and see first hand how the farm is managed and hoe the pods are collected. 

 The trained farmer will give you a detailed explanation and process of how the beans are extracted from the pods and then fermented and finally dried and ready to be processed into chocolate.

 Here is where you start to make your own chocolate. You will  roast your own cacao beans on the clay griddle, just like how the Mayans do.





Winnowing is also an art by its self, but we need to do it, so we can get the nibs that we need to make the chocolate.
                                                                     
 

 Once we have the Nibs we need, we can now start the chocolate making. Here is where we need to work together as this can be a long process, but taking turns makes it so much easier!

Making chocolate on the Mayan grinding stone, is a lot of fun! The cacao beans being ground on the grinding stone, gets magical as you witness your chocolate beginning to unfold. What is more exciting is that you get to eat your own chocolate.!!!!

The tour is very educational and hands on. You have got to do it.

 














Please let us know of your visit by making your reservation. contact me at:
Email: mayamuseum@yahoo.com or juliosaqui@gmail.com. call us at + 501 - 660 - 3903
Visit our facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/cheilmayanproducts

I hope to see you soon.  

 

The

Maya Center Mayan Museum 

is small but unique in it's own way.

Many of the students who toured this thatch roof Mayan building, thoroughly enjoyed the tour and demonstrations. Every thing on display is Mayan. We advise every student group on study tour going to Belize, that this is a must stop! You must visit this traditional Mayan house in Maya Center Village in the Stann Creek District, on the Cockscomb Jaguar Reserve access road. 

It's Traditional, Educational, informative and exciting. You really have to see it!
To visit us, Contact the Curator and owner, Julio Saqui of Maya Center Village, at the foot hills of Maya Mountains, home of the world's only Jaguar Reserve at Email:julio_saqui@hotmail.com or visit their website at www.cockscombmayatours.com. This is a great introduction of the living Mayas of Belize, to any body, tour group or student group that wants to see real Mayan Culture.
Maya Center Maya Museum is a true Mayan treasure! This thatched Mayan house, that houses the museum,  represents the typical way Indigenous Mayas of Belize build their houses and their way of living. Every thing in the Museum is what one would see when entering a true Mayan house in any of the Mayan Villages of Belize. Visit the Mayan Museum, a true Mayan cultural house and learn from them the Herbal secrets and healing, pottery making, sugar making from the sugar cane, corn Tortilla making, Coffee Making, Chocolate making and learn to dance the typical Mayan Marimba music. The pictures below are just a few of the many happy visitors that have visited. Maya Center Village is home to Mopan Mayas of Belize.
SUPPORT LOCAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ! Help preserve the Mayan Culture that is fast going away.