26 Mar 2023
Coming from Guatemala, we wanted to climb the highest and most famous volcanos of Mexico - Iztaccihuatl and Orizaba by or own - without guide, but with professional help regarding transfers and local guidance "on the ground". Yacana Outdoors was the right partner for these trips. Right from the very first contact via E-Mail, all the communication - once we were in Latin America via Whatsapp - with Ricardo and later our "coordinator" Jose/Louis was very smooth and professional. Both spoke perfectly English although even Jose's Spanish was good to understand :) We had perfect weather (although it was definitely too dry everywhere in the region) and the time management was great. Although we brought many of the required equipment ourselves it wouldn't have been any problem to get sleeping bags, ropes etc. from Yacana. Instead of climbing up and down Orizaba on the same (nothern) route Yacana arranged for us a pick-up from the southern side. Once there we got informed that this "travers" of Orizaba is quite unusual - but highly recommended if you want to explore both sides.
And although there might be cheaper agencies we can just highly recommend Yacana for outdoor tours in Latin America.