A serene bay on Loreto Marine Sanctuary is home to a tiny fishing village facing Danzante Island in the Sea of Cortez, just 25 miles south of Loreto. As you enter the 10-acre seaside eco-resort, you'll see nine charming hilltop suites perched dramatically atop a rocky, volcanic knoll facing the sea. Nestled among cardon and pithaya cacti, colorful bougainvilla and towering mesquite trees, the property is reminiscent of an old Mexican-style ranch by the sea.

Danzante is a unique eco-tourism resort that is 100% solar-powered and surrounded by spectacular scenery.... the dream child of Michael and Lauren Farley, well-known authors, photographers, adventure travel guides and expert divers.

Danzante is remote, but not rustic. While there are no TV's, phones or faxes to bother you in your rooms, you can have cell phone service for limited use on the premises. Each of the nine hilltop suites features a private bathroom and large Mexican tiled shower, and 2 individual terraces, one facing the sea and one the mountains. French doors open onto a palm-thatched patio with a hammock, and unobstructed ocean views. Rooms offer comfortable king and queen beds, hand-crafted adobe brick, elaborate beamed ceilings, hand-made ironwork and furnishings by local artisans... ample windows, french doors and skylights keep the rooms airy and bright.

Danzante offers all-inclusive stays, with delicious Mexican-style meals featuring fresh seafood, and organic fruits and vegetables from their own garden. They offer purified drinking water and ice, and happy hour festivities. You can practise on your own kayaking, snorkeling and swimming from the secluded beach as well as hiking in spectacular canyon scenery. Optional activities (at extra charge) include: guided horseback rides, guided canyon hikes, scuba diving, fishing, marine safaris at sea, dolphin and whale watching, island exploration and spa treatments & massage.

Meals are served in a circular palm-thatched dining room, which is also conversation and games area, includes a lending library, and is perfect for bird watching by day and telescope to the stars by night. Multi-level terraces feature an outdoor barbecue with terrace dining under the stars, where fresh catches simmer over coals. You can relax by the freshwater pool just steps from the dining room, and enjoy the dramatic colors of the sunset from its sweeping panoramic ocean view.

Eco Policies and benefits to the local community:

The vision of Danzante Resort has always been to integrate and harmonize with its natural surroundings, both ecologically and culturally. Blessed with an abundance of natural and local building materials, and nurtured by the goodwill and talents of the people from the nearby fishing villages, the Danzante resort is a reflection of this harmony.
The natural adobe brick used in the buildings was handmade and hand-fired in a kiln on the property with clay from a nearby lagoon, by a local adobe master. Palm leaves were carefully cut and hand-woven by locals, to create the charming “Palapa” roofs and patio shades, in the same tradition as their ancestors have been doing for decades. Pithaya Cactus wood strips harvested from the remains of dead cacti were used in room ceilings. Multi-colored volcanic slate and stone form the basis for hand-laid walls, stairs and walkways, all built by local workers and artisans. Architecturally, Danzante resort blends subtlety into the hillside.

Danzante employs only native villagers from the immediate area. They set high standards of employee treatment with fair wages plus benefits while supplying and encouraging job training. Fishermen’s wives, who embody age-old methods of cooking traditional Mexican meals “from scratch”, prepare carefully planned out meals for Danzante guests, adding such healthy touches as utilizing produce from the local organic garden, native cactus, fruits and herbs, and replacing lard with olive oil. Mutually beneficial is the proximity to a fishing village, with local seafood appearing seasonally on the menu. Local villagers are employed and trained as naturalist guides at Danzante, sharing the wonders of both the mountains and the sea that abound in their native homeland.
The hiking guide, Chuey, can decipher any animal print in the canyons and knows the call of every wild bird and animal.

Danzante provides no-interest loans for families to develop solar systems in their homes, and to purchase equipment for cottage industry arts and crafts. It is also the founding member of a local, non-profit educational foundation (Association for Higher Education in Ligui and Ensenada Blanca), with financial contributions to scholarship funds, educational materials and teacher salaries for the local rural schools.

Your stay at Danzante includes Marine Park use fees, which are paid each time one of our guests enjoys use of the Marine Park. This money goes directly to the Loreto Marine Park, for maintenance, operations and program development.
The Loreto National Marine Park is one of the largest of its kind in Mexico, encompassing all of the islands you will find offshore, with a vision to insure marine life abundance for generations to come.