austin bunner

mexico city, taxco & acapulco

By: Austin Bunner

Meet your Tour Director and check into hotel

Mexico City city walk San Felipe de Jesus Church visit 

Day 1 Start Tour

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San Felipe de Jesus ChurchThis is a very beautiful church that was built in the last century by Franciscan monks.

Mexico City Guided Sightseeing Tour:  Zócalo, Cathedral, Palacio Nacional, Templo Mayor

National Museum of Anthropology visit  Xochimilco (Aztec Floating Gardens) visit 

Day 2 Mexico City Landmarks

PicturesFloating Gardens (Xochimilcho)

Museum of Anthropology

On these floating gardens vendors on canoes sell everything like tacos, flowers, mariachi music, and a lot more.

This is one of the top Anthropology museums in the world with over 100,000 square ft of display like the famous Aztec calendar.

Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe visit 

Teotihuacán guided excursion 

Mexico City market visit 

Day 3 Teotihuacán

Lady of GuadalupeOn December 9, 1531, resident Juan Diego, had to find a priest for his dying uncle, he saw a vision of the Virgin. She told him to build a basilica here and prove her divinity by curing his uncle and set her own image into Juan Diego’s cloak. Since then she has been performed miracles, ended plagues, and presiding as patron saint of the Americas.

The basilica is one of the most visited places in Latin America.

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Teotihuacán, city. “The Aztecs named this the place where men become Gods” they had as many as 250,000 residents in this city. Tthey found it in ruins and assumed that giants had built it.

This is the mexico city market place where you can buy silver jewelry, leather coats, traditional wooden carvings, hand-woven fabrics, paintings, hammocks, and lots more.

Travel to TaxcoSanta Prisca Church visit Silver Market Shopping 

Day 4 Mexico City--Taxco

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Santa Prisca Church. This city had a lot of gold and silver minds where its wealth came from.

Silver mine in taxco. Cortez and the conquistadors discovered silver in Taxco and established the first silver mine.

• Travel to Acapulco via the sierra madres.

Day 5 Taxco--Acapulco

Acapulco & Sierra Madres

Sierra madres picture. Acapulco has some of the most famous beaches in the world, you also can watch professional divers jump off of a 136ft La Quebrada.

Day 6 Acapulco Beach Time

Just take a free day to do whatever you want at the amazing acapulco beaches.

Day 7 Acapulco Beach Time

• Acapulco beach day

• Farewell Dinner with Music

Professional divers jumping off of a cliff.

End of the trip, take flight back home.

Day 8 End Tour

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