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Rancho Encantado, a small family-owned resort and retreat center in Mexico, offers the very finest in personalized retreat facilities. The Rancho is a hidden jewel, nestled along the shores of Laguna Bacalar, in the wild, alluring southern Yucatan Peninsula, an area virtually untouched by tourism.

Designed with the vision of small common-interest groups coming together in a secluded, serene setting, Rancho Encantado offers a beautiful, comfortable place to work and be together. Impeccable service is our standard for professional organizations, spiritual retreats, wellness workshops, creative development conferences, family or friend reunions.

We host corporate retreats, World Wildlife Fund international symposia, women's retreats, dream workshops, yoga groups, natural history excursions, writing workshops, and Mayan Studies experts with equal success. Everyone who crosses the threshold of our tropical paradise experiences extra special attention and a sense of coming home.

Whatever group activities you arrange for yourselves, we invite you to utilize our sensitive, expert staff to guide you to the magnificent Mayan sites surrounding the Rancho, allowing us to weave these excursions perfectly into the fiber of your own retreat.

Now, let the healing qualities of Laguna Bacalar touch you even more deeply as you experience our newly created spa facility. After a day of trekking through the jungle exploring nearly unknown Mayan sites or swimming and kayaking on the lake, relax in our Jacuzzi under the stars, surrounded by night-blooming jasmine.

Sign up for a massage from our expert therapist in a thatched massage hut over the water. Allow this magical place to fully give to you its gifts of rest, renewal and transformation.