You Can Rent This Kaleidoscopic Snake House on Airbnb

[Celerity]

Just outside downtown Mexico City, stay in an Airbnb literally built for a god.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/where-to-stay-in-mexico-airbnb-quetzalcoatl-nest



In the woods outside downtown Mexico City, an ethereal serpent winds through the trees and up into the green hills. Its technicolour body, smattered with windows that look into a tranquil, milky white interior, weaves itself in and out of the landscape, alive with shades of bright orange, cerulean, and emerald green. Those who stumble upon it might think it's something out of an ancient myth (if not a vision seen during an intense acid trip). Those who went out of their way to seek it, however, know they're gazing upon Quetzalcoatl’s Nest.

When humble genius/architect Javier Senosiain was given land to design another one of his masterpieces, he wasn’t planning to build a massive, kaleidoscopic snake nest. As a believer in organic architecture, he simply wanted to build something to complement the land. “Organic architecture flows with nature,” explains Patricia Castillo, a friend of the architect who hosts an apartment inside the structure on Airbnb. “It’s not destroying, it’s not competing—it’s observing nature and how you can copy the structures, colours, forms, and integrate that into your way of living.”



When Senosiain built an early model, he used pool floaties instead of rope (seriously) to create an outline over the oddly-shaped plot of land, which was defined by caves, canyons, and scores of trees. Noticing that the shape he’d built resembled a snake, Senosiain recalled a quote from one of his architectural heroes, Antoni Gaudí: “Originality is a return to the origin.”In reverence of the Aztecs,
the original occupants of the land that is now Mexico City, Senosiain decided to model a structure after the unique shape of the feathered snake god Quetzalcoatl—or more accurately, Quetzalcoatl’s Nest.



He built the twisting, iridescent form over six years, completing the project in 2006. Back then, the property was a 10-bedroom residential apartment with gardens and a huge park whose caves and ponds stretched over 44 acres. But about five years ago, a few of the rooms were transformed into Airbnb rentals, attracting out-of-towners—and Instagram influencers—looking for an otherworldly stay. Quetzalcoatl’s Nest can host up to six guests in one of its curvaceous apartments for $6300 pesos per night (or $300 USD for a two-night minimum stay) on Airbnb. (Seven rooms are still being rented long-term, so be mindful of other guests during your stay).

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[soothsayer]

1. Pretty cool!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Am I the only one who really wants to go get high there? (nt)

[Deep State Witch]

3. Do Peyote There

Or some other hallucinogenic.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. I was trying to keep it mellow, but ... okay. I'm down. Let's go!