DÍA DE MUERTOS IN MEXICO

A DEEPLY ROOTED COASTAL RETREAT IN ZIHUATANEJO

Trip Style: Retreat

DÍA DE MUERTOS, PERMACULTURE, INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS & PACIFIC COAST LIVING

Trip Highlights

Día de Muertos, rooted in place. There are places where the setting is part of the experience. This is one of them.

Just 30 minutes from Zihuatanejo, a pristine stretch of Pacific coastline becomes your home for five days -a private beach surrounded by 200 acres of tropical ecosystem, with a 20-acre permaculture farm, an oceanside yoga shala, treehouse-style gathering spaces and a kitchen built around seasonal ingredients from the land.

And then there is the timing: Día de Muertos, when Mexico’s traditions of remembering and honoring those who came before us become part of daily life. Rather than simply observing the holiday, you’ll have opportunities to learn about its traditions, participate in local activities and ceremonies, and reflect on your own relationship to ancestry, memory and place.

This is a retreat designed around connection rather than a rigid schedule. Begin your mornings with movement and a nourishing breakfast, spend an afternoon swimming or snorkeling, explore the farm, join a cacao or Día de Muertos ceremony, or venture into the surrounding villages and mountains with local guides. There is room for both discovery and doing absolutely nothing.

Traverse carefully curates the experience and handles the planning and logistics, while the property and its local partners bring the destination to life. Whether traveling as part of a dedicated Traverse group or alongside other thoughtfully selected travelers, you’ll experience the same beautifully designed setting, local programming and freedom to make the retreat your own.

Book the 5-day Mexico Día de Muertos Retreat starting at $2,495 per person. Private extensions and additional experiences can also be added to your stay.

why this trip?

This isn't simply a beautiful hotel on a beach. The property is part of a larger living ecosystem, with a permaculture farm, sustainable practices, locally sourced food and spaces designed to bring people into closer relationship with the surrounding landscape.

You can spend a morning practicing yoga beside the ocean, walk through the farm where ingredients for your meals are grown, retreat to a shaded treehouse with a cup of tea, or step into the water for a swim. The luxury here is space, nature, intention and the ability to move through your days at your own pace.

Día de Muertos is not a single ceremony or attraction. It is a deeply rooted cultural tradition centered on remembrance, family and honoring those who have passed. During your stay, you’ll have opportunities to participate in traditions connected to the holiday, beginning with a cacao ceremony and continuing through local activities, storytelling, food and a closing ceremony. The experience invites you to learn about the traditions of the region while also creating space to reflect on your own ancestors and the people whose lives have shaped yours.

The property's 20-acre permaculture farm produces coconuts, mangoes, greens and other seasonal ingredients used in the kitchen, complemented by other foods sourced from nearby producers. The result is food that reflects the landscape around you—and a chance to see how farming, biodiversity, cooking and community are connected.

This is also a region where ancient agricultural knowledge continues to offer lessons for the future. Mexico's ancestral milpa system, for example, cultivated crops such as corn, beans and squash together in a polyculture that supported both soil health and biodiversity. Today, regenerative farmers are drawing on that wisdom alongside modern approaches to create more resilient food systems.

There is plenty to explore here: Indigenous ceremonies, village markets, mountain farms, coffee and chocolate growers, marine biodiversity, turtle conservation and local crafts. But you don't have to do all of it. Some of the best moments may be the unplanned ones—an afternoon swimming in the Pacific, reading in a treehouse, lingering over a meal, receiving a spa treatment using local medicinal ingredients or simply watching the light change over the water.

The itinerary gives you options. You decide how much adventure, culture and quiet your days need.

Traverse handles the planning, logistics and thoughtful curation, while experienced local hosts, guides and the property team lead the experiences themselves. A dedicated Traverse group is available when the trip reaches its minimum of six travelers; regardless of group size, you’ll receive the same carefully planned core experience and on-the-ground support.

The result is something in between a private escape and a traditional group retreat: a highly curated experience in an extraordinary place, with space to connect with other interesting travelers and plenty of room to make the experience your own.

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