CULTURAL EXPERIENCE IN WIRIKUTA DESERT WITH WIXARIKA INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY, MEXICO
Sacred Pilgrimage through Mexico
A ceremonial road trip to sacred places with prayers of hikuri, cacao, pyramids, mountains & desert visiting San Andrés Cohamiata Wixarrica indigenous community sacred medicine temascal
November 8th to 22nd 2025
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1 week 1200 euros .. only wirikuta, we pick you up in mexico city on 15th November2 weeks 2400 ... round trip
A ceremonial road trip to sacred places with prayers of hikuri, cacao, pyramids, mountains & desert visiting San Andrés Cohamiata Wixarrica
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Dear friends of adventure, prayer, and love for the eternal life,
We are inviting you to a 2-week spiritual pilgrimage road trip through Mexico combined with sightings of the ancient civilizations of mystical cultures hidden today in the deep forests and high mountains of Mexico. Avoiding the tourist sites the road will take us to the secret spaces to hear the whisper of the creator.
Sacred sites and deep deserts are calling us to emerge with the ancient culture of the Wixiraca culture uniting us in the prayer of
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Marakame Otokame Rogelio
also known as Rogelio Carrillo, is a respected spiritual elder and ceremonial leader from the Wixárika (Huichol) community of San Andrés Cohamitra in the highlands of Jalisco, Mexico. Born into a sacred lineage of marakames, he was initiated from a young age into the timeless rituals, chants, and pilgrimages that form the heartbeat of the Wixárika cosmology. As a marakame, he carries the sacred responsibility of communicating with the spirits of nature—guiding his community through the cycles of life, offering healing, and tending the divine balance between humans and the natural world.
From 2005 to 2010, he served as the principal marakame of San Andrés, and from 2019 to 2023, he was part of the Council of Elders, offering wisdom in both ritual and communal decisions. Today, he continues his mission as a spiritual guide at the cultural center, while also traveling internationally to share the deep medicine of his tradition.
Marakame Otokame has led sacred ceremonies and “Circles of Word” in Barcelona, bringing the heart of the Wixárika cosmology to the global community. Through his teachings, he emphasizes the importance of honoring indigenous rituals in their full ceremonial context—especially regarding sacred plant medicines like hikuri (peyote)—reminding us that the medicine is not only in the plant, but in the prayer, the offering, the lineage, and the land.
Those who have sat in ceremony with him speak of an atmosphere of timeless reverence, where each chant is a thread woven between worlds, each silence a portal to spirit. His work is not just spiritual—it is ecological, ancestral, and political. He stands as a living bridge between ancient wisdom and the contemporary world.
To walk beside Marakame Otokame Rogelio on a pilgrimage to Wirikuta, the desert of the sacred deer, is to enter a prayer in motion—a return to the origins.
CHIEF JEREMY GORDON
Adopted and mentored by Lakota elders such as Leonard Crow Dog, Joseph “Joe Bad” Moccasin, and Yukon medicine man Jim Wolf, he was given the blessing to lead sacred ceremonies in the traditional way since the late 1980s. For the past 12 years, Jeremy has been guiding Sun Dances in Mexico and Europe, holding the ceremony with devotion and integrity under the name Sundance Quetzalcóatl.
His work spans continents—leading Yuwipi healing ceremonies, Inipi sweat lodges, Vision Quests, and pipe ceremonies across Mexico, Chile, Italy, the UK, and the United States. As the founder of the Native American Church of Quetzalcóatl, he builds bridges between cultures, blending the ancient Lakota ways with the local traditions of the lands he walks. He has also collaborated with Marakames and other native elders to support community healing and spiritual renewal. Through his leadership, thousands of people have been touched by the medicine, prayer, and love he brings to every ceremony.
THE TOUR
Book your flight to Ángel Albino Corzo International Airport (TGZ) in Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, located about 1.5 hours away to San Crisobal. There you can take a bus.
8.11 – San Cristóbal de las Casas
Opening dinner and welcome circle
9.11 – San Cristóbal de las Casas
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Drive to Palenque
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Visit to sacred Maya temples
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Swim & offering at Agua Azul or Misol-Ha waterfalls
11.11 – Cacao Lands of Veracruz
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Drive toward cacao-growing regions (Córdoba zone)
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Visit to cacaotal (cacao farm)
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Evening cacao circle
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Overnight near farm
12.11 Temazcal
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Morning Inipi (temazcal) purification
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River stop for chanupa and offering Oxum ceremony
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Overnight
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Scenic drive to Real de Catorce via Ogarrio Tunnel
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Evening grounding circle and song
Cerro El Quemado Pilgrimage
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Hike to sacred mountain Cerro El Quemado
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Desert prayer and offerings
14.11 – Wirikuta Desert
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Hikury ceremony
15.11 – Wirikuta Desert
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Temascal
16.11 – Wirikuta Desert
Temascal
17.11 – San Andrés Cohamitra
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Drive to Wixárika community of San Andrés
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Arrival, welcome by the elders
18.11 –San Andrés Cohamitra
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Teachings from Marakame Otokame Rogelio
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Hikuri ceremony
19.11 – Sacred Closing in San Andrés
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Temascal
20.11 – Return Journey (Rest Stop)
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Scenic drive through forested valleys
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Stop near lake or eco-retreat
21.11 – Return to San Cristóbal
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Arrival in San Cristóbal
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temazcal
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Closing dinner celebration
22.11
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Morning breakfast
program may be subject to change
The tour is arranged for 2 weeks from Saturday to Saturday optional to join the tour for one or two weeks.
You can arrange your abroad flight accordingly arriving and leaving during the day on these Saturday days.
What to bring: As we will be traveling in a van there will not be much luggage placed in the van, please bring a backpack, sleeping back and a small backpack for the day trips, a bottle of water, sunscreen, hat, trekking shoes, flip flops, something warm, bathing suit, a torch, some nice ceremony clothes,
About The Wixárika tribe
The name of the tribe originally means the “seer”!
This ancient tribe is located deep in the mountains of central Mexico...have lived here for at least 15,000 years according to carbon dating of the ashes from their sacred fireplaces and The Wixárikas are one of the ethnic groups that have managed to remain "pure" since the time of the Spanish conquest.
The isolation from mass culture and the modern consumer society has helped them to preserve the purity of their race, their customs, and festivals, their own social organization, and their characteristic and peculiar art. Their religious, political, and economic life is organized in a way that can migrate from one place to another and then return to their places of origin.
The mountains are inhabited by the mystical culture of the community; in which constantly enigmatic worlds are created whose recurring characters are moons, suns, trees, labyrinths, spirals, mountains, and cosmic oceans tirelessly are expressed in art, religion, and customs of the Wixárik. Living in places removed from the Sierra Madre Occidental in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco they maintained to be free from external influence through the centuries
Their tradition includes 4 main deities, the trinity of Corn, Blue Deer, and Peyote, and the Eagle that have all descended from their Sun God Tao Jreeku who created all the beings on Earth with his saliva...
As in many indigenous cultures in the Americas, Wixárika shamans ingest sacred medicine, which they call
We will have the opportunity not only to visit them but emerge into their culture as friends and step through the door of the mystical spirituality of sacred medicine.
Wixarika art
Prayer in the most auspicious sacred place. We will dive into Wixirrica art and explore connections between the spiritual world and the art created in these high places.
The Wixarika art is a form of writing, as though the creations tell us their stories and myths. The use of decorative elements, the tiny glass beads called “
These tiny beads are stuck to a pre-carved wooden figure glued by hand one by one give to form and color to the final deers, coyotes, flowers,
Another very popular type of art because of their “psychedelic” designs is the
Wirikuta sacred desert “the Center of the Universe”
For the Wixarika, every single thing in Wirikuta is sacred: every stone, plant, stream, creature, everything! Their cosmovision is marked by a healthy sense of innocence that breeds profound respect for nature.
In the beginning, the gods were guided by Tatewari, also known as Grandfather Fire, to the Mountain of El Quemado. There, riding on the horns of a blue deer named Kauyumari, the sun rose for the first time, giving birth to the world.
Wirikuta is a natural protected area, spawning over 540 square miles in the municipalities of Catorce, Charcas, and Matehuala in the northern state of San Luis Potosi. Since 1998, it is included in UNESCO’s Natural Sacred Sites network.
Every year, the Wixarikasl embark on an ancient migration journey from their homes in Western Mexico all the way to this place. Guided by a
Sacred Sites Along the Pilgrimage Path
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS
San Cristóbal de las Casas is a magical highland town in Chiapas, Mexico, set at 2,200 m in the pine-clad mountains. Known for its cobblestone streets, colorful colonial charm, and vibrant indigenous presence, it’s a gathering point for seekers, artisans, and healers.
Blending Tzotzil Maya roots with a soulful bohemian atmosphere, it’s filled with herbal shops, craft markets, and ceremonial spaces. As a gateway to sacred sites like San Juan Chamula and the Sumidero Canyon, San Cristóbal offers the perfect foundation for any spiritual journey — a place of grounding, connection, and cultural depth.
It’s the perfect place to begin a sacred journey.
PALENQUE PYRAMIDS
Palenque is one of the most powerful and mystical Maya archaeological sites, nestled in the lush jungle of Chiapas, Mexico. Known for its elegant pyramids, sacred temples, and intricate carvings, it was once a spiritual and political center of Maya civilization.
Shrouded in mist and surrounded by waterfalls and tropical sounds, Palenque feels alive — a place where ancient wisdom still echoes through stone and forest. It's not just a ruin, but a living temple city.
The cacao lands of Veracruz are the fertile heart of Mexico’s ancient chocolate tradition. Here, in lush tropical groves, sacred cacao trees grow as they have for millennia—nurtured by sun, rain, and rich volcanic soil.
This is the birthplace of cacao, once revered by the Olmecs and Totonacs as “the food of the gods.
We will drink cacao from the land of the Jaguar with its teachings of the region and the Mayan, Mexica and Wixárika worldview. We will visit sacred temples and cities of antiquity and give offerings thanking the ancestors and guardians of the sacred spaces, accompanied and guided by earthly guardians of the place.
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In the heart of the Chiapas jungle, Agua Azul flows like a living serpent of turquoise light.
Real de Catorce is a mystical, almost otherworldly town frozen in time. Once a booming silver mining hub in the 18th and 19th centuries, it now lives in quiet grandeur—its narrow, cobbled streets winding between weathered stone buildings under the majestic backdrop of the Sierra de Catorce.
Arriving through the famous Ogarrio Tunnel, you’ll step into a world where horse-drawn carts still traverse the dusty lanes and stray burros roam freely. The town’s sacred energy lies not just in its history, but in its spiritual resonance—rumored to be inhabited by healing spirits and ancient miners whose echoes linger in the mountain air.
WIRIKUTA DESERT
SAN ANDRÉS
Hdden deep in the Sierra Madre Occidental, San Andrés Cohamiata—known to the Wixárika as Tatei Kié, the “Place of Our Mother”—is not merely a village, but a living altar of the Earth.
Elders wrapped in embroidered symbols walk slowly, carrying the weight of ancient visions. Children speak in the original tongue of the gods. The fire still burns in the center of the world, fed by tobacco, corn, and deer spirit. In this sacred place, the veil between realms thins.
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