Day 01:
Mexico city
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Arrival in
Mexico city,
Meeting at the airport and transfer to your pre-selected hotel.
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Accommodation at
hotel.
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Overnight.
Instructions
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Day
02:
 Mexico
city tour with museum
Duration: 6
hour tour
Operation: Daily
- Today you will
experience the worlds biggest city, Mexico city, with its precious
treasures of nature, culture, art and history. The guide will show
and explain the Zocalo (main square) where you find the
National
Palace and the Cathedral, Bellas Artes Opera and the
Latinoamericana tower, that survived the 1985 earthquake.
- Then we continue
to the residential area of the metropolis, Chapultepec park and
Lomas.
- Then we continue
to the world famous
Anthropological
Museum (closed on Monday), here you will get an excellent
insight and summary of Mexican history and archeology. One of the
World's 10 best museums.
- Return to your
hotel.
- Rest of the day at
leisure.
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Overnight
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Day 03:
 Xochimilco
tour
Duration: 4
½
hour tour
Operation: Tuesday to Sunday
- Drive to the Plaza
de las Cibeles, Poliforum Cultural Siqueiros, Bull Ring and the
University City
recently declared by
UNESCO human patrimony. This building was constructed on a petrified
sea of lava.
- Before continuing
to Xochimilco’s floating gardens,
ride to through the canals on a “trajinera” surrounded by a floating
world of mariachi and marimba music.
 Folkloric Ballet
Duration: 3
hour tour
Operation: Wednesday afternoon and
Sunday morning & afternoon
- The Mexican
folkloric ballet performs in the Palace of Fine Arts.
- Before the
performance, you can admire the beautiful glass curtain, depicting
the Popocatepetl and Iztacciuhuatl volcanoes.
- The folkloric
ballet of Mexico is internationally known for its magnificent
choreography and music, representing all regions of the Republic.
- Note: please be
informed that sometimes performance takes place at Teatro Hidalgo
due compromises gotten by Palace of Fine Arts.
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Return to your hotel.
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Overnight.
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Day
04:
 Guadalupe
Shrine, Teotihuacan pyramids tour
Duration: 6
hour tour
Operation: Daily
- The tour starts
with a visit to the
sacred shrine of the national GUADALUPE
on the Hill of Tepeyac, place of peregrination of
millions of Mexicans and around the world people. Is the holiest
place of Catholic workshop in Latin America.
This cathedral was visited several times by the pope John Paul II
besides of millions of Christians during pilgrimage.
- Afterwards
continuation to the northern part of the Mexico city to Teotihuacan, where
gods, men, heaven and earth met in the mythical past; visit the
pyramids of the Sun and the Moon and the impressive Temple of
Quetzalcoatl.
- Time for those who want to climb the pyramids on
their own risk.
- You will enjoy
free time for taking pictures and do some sightseeing on your own.
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Return to your hotel.
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Overnight.
More
information about Teotihuacan Pyramids
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Day
05:
Puebla and Cholula tour
Duration:
full day tour
Operation: Tuesday
- Day trip to
historic Puebla, where the imperial French army suffered one of its
most bitter defeats in 1863.
- You will wonder at
the exuberant magnificence of the Rosary Chapel, visit the enormous
and austere Cathedral and the hidden Monastery of Santa Monica.
- The city is also
famous for its Spanish-style “talavera” tiles, which are integrated
in this town’s architecture, giving it a most peculiar appearance.
- Before returning
to Mexican City, you will visit Cholula, known as the town of 365
churches, and for its tunneled pyramid of Tepenapa, the country’s
largest, on top of which the conquerors built the church of our Lady
of Remedios.
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Return to your hotel.
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Overnight.
More information about Puebla city
More information about Cholula city
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Day
06:
 Tula and Tepozotlan
tour
Duration:
full day tour
Operation: Wednesday
- An interesting
excursion to ancient Tula, capital of the mighty Toltec empire,
which flourished long before the arrival of the Aztecs. Visits
include the Ball Game Court and the impressive Temple of the morning
star, topped by the world-famous “Atlantes”, giant monolithic
warriors standing guard, and the “Coatepantli”, an awe-inspiring
wall of serpents.
- On the way back to
Mexico City, stop at Tepotzotlan for a visit to its colonial
monastery, where you will admire some of the world’s most
magnificent baroque altarpieces, carved in wood and covered with
authentic gold leaf.
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Return to your hotel.
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Overnight.
More
information about Tula city
More information about Tepozotlan city
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Day
07:
Cuernavaca and Taxco tour
Duration:
full day tour
Operation: Daily
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 A day trip to the
city of eternal spring, Cuernavaca, visiting the Cathedral.
- Continuing to the
silver town of Taxco, with its
cobble-stoned streets and atmosphere
of long ago.
- Visit
churrigueresque style Santa Prisca church, and browse through the
countless silver shops.
- Returning to Mexico City in the late
afternoon or early evening.
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Return to your hotel.
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Overnight.
More
information about Cuernavaca city
More information about Taxco city
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Day
08:
 Coyoacan and San
Angel tour
Duration:
tour
Operation: Daily
- Trip to the south
of the city along Insurgentes Avenue, the longest avenue in Mexico
City passing by the Insurgentes Theater, which has a Diego's mosaic
mural, which tells the story of Mexican theater.
- Coyoacan, an old
colonial town which is now incorporated into Mexico City is where we
will visit the famed Blue House which Frida Kahlo's father built and
her home for most of her life.
- Then continuation
to San Angel a neighborhood famous for its Saturday crafts market
(the Bazar del Sabado) where artists and high quality craftsmen sell
their wares.
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Return to your hotel.
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Overnight.
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Day
09:
Mexico city
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On
time, departure from your hotel to the airport for flight to your next
destination.
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