For the past twelve years, Jaya Radhe and Manu have been volunteering with a team of wonderful people to organize Krishna Culture Festival Tours for youth and young adults throughout North and Central America. If you're into yoga, spirituality, vegetarianism, eastern traditions, looking for peace of mind, read on.

Click here to view photos of our previous Mexico bus tour.

Four short Google videos of our previous Mexico bus tour: Mexico City to Palenque | Cozumel to Chichen Itza | Playa Ventura (near Acapulco) | Volcanos and Tepozlan

Our tours are organized entirely by volunteers. We divide our costs among the participants, like a communal road-trip among friends. All drivers, organizers, team leaders, cooks, etc. are volunteers. For the duration of the tour we follow the lifestyle of a yogi, abstaining from meat, intoxication, sex, and gambling. We live simply, sleeping on bunk beds in our bus, and cook healthy vegetarian meals. (Our bus has a bathroom with flush toilet and shower.)

We're interested in a genuine spiritual experience and exchange of love between tour participants, between everyone we meet on the tour, as well as on a divine level, with the Supreme Reservoir of Pleasure, who is known as Krishna in our tradition.

Amidst some of the most breathtaking scenery in North and Central America, our main activities include mantra meditation and Kirtan, chanting and singing the pure sound vibrations of ancient spiritual mantras that purify our hearts, calm our minds, and instill joy and contentment. To this end, we'll be holding "Kirtan Yoga" festivals at yoga studios along the way, and at homes, Krishna temples, and outdoor festival locations.

Our upcoming Mexico & Guatemala winter tour is scheduled December 14 through January 5. We're bringing photo and video cameras with us to document this tour and report back to you when we return. Take a look at hundreds of photos from previous tours via the "photos link" above.

Highlights:

• Kirtan Retreat on the bus to Mexico.
• Mexico City Krishna Culture Festival.
• Kirtana Yoga festivals in San Luis Potosi, Oaxaca, Xela, Playa del Carmen, Izamal, Mexico City, Tulancingo, Leon, and Monterrey.
• Japa Retreat on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
• Visiting indigenous Mayan villages and crafts markets in Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
• Hot-spring waterfalls at Lake Izabal, Guatemala.
• Mayan ruins at Tikal, Chichen Itza, and Palenque. Discussions about the rise and fall of great civilizations, and the importance and purpose of human life.
• Carribbean ocean beach and swimming at Tulum, and snorkeling the coral reef off Cozumel Island, Mexico.
• Visiting Krishna temples and devotee homes for Kirtan programs throughout Mexico and Gautemala.

23 days (three weeks) - Exciting adventure. We're fully booked now and will see you when we get back, January 7. Keep a look out on this blog for updates from the road, and for sure, when we get back. As part of your Krishna.com team goes travling to spread His glories, wish us luck and pray for us to be safe and return safely.

Email Manu or Jaya Radhe at: tour@krishna.com

Click here to view photos of our previous Mexico bus tour.

If you would like to give a donation to help us with expenses on this tour, we still need $2,800 as of departure time (Dec 12), to sponsor youth who otherwise cannot afford to travel with us. We're bringing them with us, because it would break their hearts to be left behind, but please help us while we're traveling to recover these costs. Click here to give a donation.