CULTURAL VISITS
Information: jcpineda@convention-center.net
I. "Mexico-Anáhuac: The center of indigenous cultures."
· Historic Center of Mexico
City.
· Prehispanic and vice royal Mexico:
The Great Temple of the Gran Tenochtitlan (minimum 1 hour), its museum (minimum
2 hours) and the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico
City (minimum 1 hour).
· Independent Mexico:
Chapultepec
Castle
(minimum 2 hours), National
Palace
(minimum 1 hour) and Palacio de Bellas Artes (minimum
1 hour).
· Museums: Anthropology (minimum 4 hours), Tamayo (minimum 1 hour) and
Modern Art (minimum 2 hours).
· Excursions:
· Coyoacán (1/2 day): Frida
Kahlo
Museum, León
Trotsky Museum
and House and the former convent of San Juan Bautista.
· Teotihuacán (1 day): Minimum groups of 30 people. $40usd per person, including
meal in La Gruta. Return to Mexico City
in the evening. (Trip: 1 hour & 1/2, approximately.)
· Cacaxtla (1/2 day): Minimum groups of 30 people. $30usd per person. No meals.
Departure at 8:00 am (trip: 2 hours max.). Arrival in Mexico
City at 15:00 hours.
II. "Cuernavaca and Taxco:
eternal Spring" (3 days y 2 nights). Cost of the trip by bus and 2 nights in
a hotel, one in Cuernavaca and one
in Taxco (the Mexico
City hotel night, correspondent to the day of the return,
will be each person’s responsibility), food not included: $250usd per person.
· Day 1: Cuernavaca (2 hour
trip). Visits: Town Center,
Cortés Palace
and its museum, Cathedral, Borda Gardens.
· Day 2, morning: Xochicalco o "Place of the House of Flowers" (30 minutes
away from Cuernavaca). 2 hour visit.
· Day 2, afternoon: Taxco (1
hour trip from Xochicalco). Check-in at the hotel. A walk through the city is
recommended, you can visit a mine and buy silver (don’t forget to compare prices).
· Day 3, morning: Taxco: Visit
to the Santa Prisca church: Miguel Cabrera paintings. A visit to the market
and stores is recommended. At noon:
trip to Tepoztlán (2 hours).
· Day 3, afternoon: Tepoztlán. At the foot of Tepozteco
Mountain (Cerro del Tepozteco). Museum
in the former Dominican convent. The courageous ones can climb the mountain.
(1 hour to 1 hour & 1/2 hike) to see the pyramidal structure constructed
by the Aztecs.
· Day 3, evening: Return to Mexico City.
III. "Oaxaca: Cradle of Writing
in the Americas"
(5 Days and 4 nights). Cost of trip by bus and 4 hotel nights in Oaxaca,
food not included: $300usd per person.
· Day 1: Oaxaca (6 hour trip).
Arrival and check-in at the hotel. In the afternoon, visit to the City
Center: "zócalo" and Governmental
Palace.
· Day 2: Market, Tamayo Museum
and Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca
(Toledo Museum).
In the afternoon: Former convent of Santo Domingo de Guzmán.
· Day 3: Monte Albán and Cuilapan or Coyolapan in Náhuatl, "Río del Coyote".
Possible literary evening in Santo Domingo.
· Day 4: Zapoteca Region: Tlacochaguaya (church), Dainzú (buildings), Lambitieco
(tombs), Yagul (fortress), Mitla (city), Teposcolula (church) and Teotitlán
del Valle (wool textiles).
· Day 5: Trip from Oaxaca
– Mexico City.
