More about the Hacienda

The 17 century Casa Principal sits on the top of the hill with a slopping lawn in front overlooking the Casa des Machinas and the Hacienda's old office and store. The Main House includes the Kitchen, Dining Hall, Game Room - Den and 2 Master Bedrooms with king size beds and 2 bathrooms. A north facing portico separates the two bedrooms. The Dining Room can easily seat 12. The Game Room is equipped with movies and games and comfortable seating. The most dramatic feature of the Hacienda is the Portico that runs the length of the backside of the Main House. It overlooks the sunken corrals and the water garden.

The huge pool is refurnished with fresh spring water every 2 days and chemicals are never added. The crystal water is pumped up from the cenote which has an entrance just 10 feet below the pool in the bamboo garden. You can swim in the pool or the cenote. We love to swim in the cenote at night when it is lit. You feel like you are floating above the earth in the sky looking back to down to the ground. This fantasy is only broken by the bats who fly in and out of the cenote and consume most of the insects on the property. Occasionally you will be visited by the owl who has recently taken up residence. If you dont mind a hike and not touching bottom you can swim in the Sabakah cenote whose depth has yet to be determined. A diving trip of the cenotes in the region can be arranged from Yunku. Every other day the pool is drained into the aqueduct. This fascinating process is the ideal time to walk the top of the aquaduct around the 6 acre citrus orchard. Take your binoculars as the bird watching is optimal at this time when the water cascades out of the walls the gardens ending in the fountain in the center of the garden. The frogs you heard serenading you last night can often be seen here in the shallow pools. If you pass under the back arches of the aqueduct you can pick your own papaya from the plantation for breakfast. Fill a basket from the orchard with fresh oranges, mandarins, grapefruit or limes for breakfast or afternoon aguas frescas. On the way back up to the house try the fruit from the anona tree. If you are a serious birdwatcher you'll want to hike a mile down the road to the lake, a rare find in the Yucatan.

If you need more than 2 bedrooms rent the Guest house on the west side of the garden. It sits above the citrus orchard with a sunset view of the entire aqueduct system. This house features a master bedroom and bath with a queen size bed next door to a huge room with 2 queen beds and sitting area and several hammocks. All of the beds are new and feature 400 thread count sheets and natural fiber covers. This is the room where the cowboys slept in hammocks when the hacienda was a working cattle ranch and it was the workshop (Taller) when the hacienda was a hennequen plantation.

This is the ideal vacation rental for a family or group of friends. Uxmal is 30 minutes away to the southwest. Mani the convent town has the best regional restaurant in the Yucatan and it is 30 minutes to the south east. 15 minutes north is Hacienda Temozon where you can have a gourmet meal. 15 minutes to the west is Ochil the parrador where you can have a great lunch and browse in the Bananmex supported craft shops. There is a museum of the history of hennequen here too.
Before you come to Yunku we will send you a shopping list and when you arrive at the airport we will meet you with your provisions and instructions explaining the hacienda and the maps you will need for the area. At the hacienda you will meet the caretaker and you might see the gardener around early in the morning till around 1pm. The maid comes daily from the village daily.