The center,
in detail.

A jungle that
came first.

The first thing to know about Lunita is that we didn't pour the foundations until the jungle had given us permission to.

On May 1, 2021, four months before any cement was laid, a Mexica shaman came to the land and led a permission ceremony for the four directions and the four elements. The same day, we built a kahtal alux, a small spirit house in the Maya tradition, and consecrated it for the Aluxes, the guardian spirits of this jungle. Only then did we begin.

We made one promise during construction and kept it: not a single tree was cut. Every cabana, every path, every shared space was placed in the gaps the trees had already left. And as we built, we planted, more than five thousand new trees, a living return on what the land was lending us.

Today, Lunita is five thousand square meters of developed ground inside more than eighty thousand square meters of surrounding preserved jungle. The ratio is the point. Most of what you see, you won't have to look at; you'll feel it instead.

Where you'll sleep.

Eight cabanas and a private mini apartment, sleeping up to twenty guests in total. No two cabanas are identical; they sit in different parts of the jungle, with different views and different angles of light. What they share is the basics.

Each cabana has a queen bed and a twin, a private bathroom with hot water, a writing desk, and a terrace with its own hammock. A ceiling fan and the shade of the trees do the work of air conditioning. The cabanas stay cool naturally, even at midday. Each one opens onto a small garden of its own.

The mini apartment sits on the second floor, with four beds and a private bathroom, well suited to a family, a group of friends, or anyone who wants to share a larger space.

You'll hear the jungle at night. You won't hear another cabana.

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Where you'll gather.

Four spaces, each built for a different kind of moment. None of them feel like rooms; they feel like clearings.

Water and heat.

The Riviera Maya is built on water: limestone bedrock, underground rivers, cenotes everywhere if you know where to look. At Lunita, water and heat are part of the daily rhythm.

What you'll eat.

The kitchen at Lunita doesn't have a fixed menu. It has a team, and the team builds your meals around your group.

Vegan, vegetarian, plant-based, Mexican, Italian, raw, gluten-free, allergy-aware, the menu is shaped retreat by retreat, sometimes day by day. Tell us what your people eat, what they can't eat, and what you'd like them to taste while they're here, and the kitchen takes it from there.

Ingredients come from the region: fresh produce from local Yucatán markets, herbs from the property, the kind of food that tastes like where you are. Every dietary restriction and intolerance gets handled without fuss, no separate-plate-of-sad-vegetables energy.

Meals are served in the dining hall, a pavilion in the jungle, roofed for the rain and open on every side for the view. Long tables, the sounds of the trees doing what trees do. You hear birds during breakfast. You hear crickets during dinner. The dining hall is one of the places guests linger longest, not because the food is keeping them, but because the room is.

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How the place runs.

Everything you've read so far works because the bones underneath it work. Lunita is off-grid by design: what comes in, comes from the land; what goes out, goes back to it.

Power. The whole property runs on solar, panels across the roofs, charging five batteries that store enough power to keep the lights, the fans, the kitchen, the pool pumps, and everything else running through the night and through the rains. We've been off the grid since we opened. We've never needed it.

Water. Drawn from the underground cenote beneath the property, the same source that feeds the pool, the showers, the kitchen, the gardens. Cenote water is filtered by the limestone the Yucatán is made of. It comes up clean.

Waste. A biodigester handles what leaves the kitchen and the bathrooms, breaking it down on site and returning it to the soil. Nothing trucks out. Nothing leaches into the jungle.

Trees. None cut during construction. More than five thousand planted since. The math, three years in, is the answer to every question we get about whether eco-conscious is real or marketing.

This is the part of Lunita most guests never think about. That's how we know it's working.

The small things.

The first thing you'll see when you arrive is the moon, a large sculpture set on a platform you can sit on, placed where the path opens into the property. It glows at night. It's the only piece that announces itself.

The rest, you'll notice on your second day, mostly, not your first. Macramé hung in unexpected places. A small wooden installation tucked where the trail bends. A piece of color where the eye didn't expect color. The kind of details that don't announce themselves; they wait for you to slow down enough to find them.

Nothing was placed in the jungle to be photographed. Most of it doesn't even photograph well. They're here because the place is meant to be lived in, not just looked at, and what you notice once you're paying attention is part of what you came for.

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in person?

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