Gallery

The Lagoon Life

A first look at Melipona Bacalar — the villas, the seven shades of blue, and the slow magic of Bacalar, the Pueblo Mágico we call home. More to come as the hotel takes shape.

Architecture

The Villas

Villa exterior at dawn, pool and jungle
Beecheii courtyard pool
Beecheii sunken living room with vaulted ceiling
Garden approach to the villas
Open-plan living, kitchen and dining opening to the pool
Stone soaking tub and suite with lagoon view
Aerial view of the four villas and lagoon docks
Beecheii double-height great room and bar
Quadri double-height great room with jungle views
Quadri exterior with rooftop terrace in the jungle
The Lagoon

Seven Shades of Blue

A catamaran anchored on a vivid turquoise shelf of the Laguna de los Siete Colores, seen from above
The half-sunken 'pirate ship' islet rising from the shallows along a turquoise channel
The lagoon's bands of jade and turquoise meeting the mangrove shoreline
A sailboat anchored in shallow turquoise water along a sandbar
A swimmer floating in the clear shallows above pale limestone formations
Wooden rope swings standing in the clear turquoise shallows of the lagoon under a bright sky
Life Here

Slow Mornings

A floating paddleboard spread with sliced tropical fruit and pan de elote on the calm turquoise lagoon
A swimmer floating on their back in a deep turquoise channel between pale limestone shelves, seen from directly above
A person sitting in meditation at the end of a wooden dock as the sun sets over the lagoon
A wide aerial of the lagoon's sandy peninsula reaching into bands of turquoise
A lone paddleboarder gliding across glassy water at dawn under a pastel sky
Open turquoise water dotted with small mangrove islands and a distant sailboat
The Town

Bacalar, Pueblo Mágico

The San Felipe fort and lakeside amphitheatre above the turquoise lagoon, with the colorful Bacalar letters below
Two people walking back along a wooden pier framed by mangrove branches at golden hour
A vivid hummingbird mural on a black wall behind hanging bottle-lights in a Bacalar bar
A hand-painted clay calavera crowned with paper roses hanging in a festive courtyard
A chef walking past a clapboard house painted with bright folk-art murals under a rusted tin roof
The brightly colored BACALAR letters on a stone wall beneath a dramatic cloudy sky
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