Experience the Temazcal Ritual at Casa de Sierra Nevada in Mexico    

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Casa de Sierra Nevada is a charming getaway located 6,435 feet above sea level in San Miguel de Allende, a charming colonial town in the highlands of central Mexico. This luxury Orient-Express hotel offers a tranquil spa and a cooking school where guests can learn how to prepare Mexican dishes.

Casa de Sierra Nevada has 37 deluxe rooms and suites, all individually decorated in the local style, a mix of Spanish Colonial and Mexican. Enjoy art and antiques, exquisite fabrics, and richly colored Talavera-tiled bathrooms.

Laja Spa, named after Laja River that flows through the mountains filling the San Miguel Lake, offers three colonial style treatment rooms. Spa treatments range from traditional healing therapies to modern techniques.

Experience the Temazcal ritual at the spa which consists of indigenous chants and an aromatic mixture of medicinal herbs and copal, a resin used by the Mayan peoples as incense. The ceremony lasts 145 minutes.

Room rates at Casa de Sierra Nevada start at MXN 2695 per night.


  1. Guest bathroom at Casa de Sierra
      Guest bathroom at Casa de Sierra
  2. Casa de Sierra Nevada room
      Casa de Sierra Nevada room
  3. Casa de Sierra Nevada living room
      Casa de Sierra Nevada living room
  4. Outdoor swimming pool
      Outdoor swimming pool
  5. Couples treatment room
      Couples treatment room
  6. Casa de Sierra Nevada spa
      Casa de Sierra Nevada spa
  7. Casa de Sierra Nevada dining
      Casa de Sierra Nevada dining
  8. Outdoor swimming pool
      Outdoor swimming pool
  9. Casa de Sierra Nevada courtyard
      Casa de Sierra Nevada courtyard
  10. Cooking school in Mexico
      Cooking school in Mexico
  11. Romantic weeding
      Romantic weeding
  12. Aerial view of the swimming pool
      Aerial view of the swimming pool
[Feature Photo: Courtesy of Orient Express Hotels]