“Immerse into the authentic Mexican Culture!”
10 Day Culture and Culinary Holiday in Mexico City
Mexico City, Mexico
Culture and Culinary Tour in Mexico
Afraid to travel to Mexico? Are you a solo traveler? Is Mexico in your bucket list? Then come and join Birding Los Cabos for this culture and culinary holiday in Mexico. This program will save you time, money, and effort that will make you feel safe by traveling with others sharing the cost of travel. You will be immersed in the culture with safe, security, and international standards’ services to experience Mexico through the centuries.
Meet the instructors
Claudio, Edgard, & Maria Elena
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Highlights
- 24 tours and guided programs
- Enjoy folkloric show, and arts and crafts markets
- Taste a wide variety of authentic Mexican cuisines everyday
- Guided visit to archaeological sites, pyramids, museums, old churches
- Mexican culinary, food art, and culture interpreted by professional Mexicans
- Visit various UNESCO sites from pre-Hispanic time to modern times
- Airport transfer, and entrance tickets and permits
- 9 nights accommodation
Styles
9 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Spanish
Group size: 2-10 participants
Airport transfer included:
Mexico City International Airport
Accommodation
During this holiday, you will be staying in an art deco hotel with one or two beds. Each room will be provided with their en suit own bathroom with hot and cold water shower, air conditioning, fan, or heater depending on the weather.
Program
Mexico is full of traditions, history art, and history. The pre-Hispanic cultures such as Aztec, Maya, and Toltec were as majestic as the Babylonians, Assyrians, and Egyptians. They had their own ethnic food, ingredients, traditions, and believes, they were conquered by Spaniards and other Europeans and introduced the old world food, ingredients, and traditions. When mixed, this gave the origin to mestizo and Creole food and traditions.
During this experience, you will visit sites from pre-Hispanic time to modern times. All the archaeological sites, buildings, tianguis (market in Nahuatl) museums, and cathedrals are like open books full of history, stories of its inhabitants and messages, if you could only read them. So come and witness the encounter of two worlds. Each day, you will try a different dish from pre-Hispanic to nowadays time.
You will be immersed in the culture with safe, secure, and international standards’ services to experience Mexico trough the centuries. Touch, see, listen, feel, taste, explore, discover, experience, and enjoy.
Each day, you will try food from different time period also from the different region of Mexico. Mexican culinary, food art, and culture will be interpreted by professional Mexicans, and you will also be led by an architect, art historian, and a tour guide along with local chefs and experts.
Daily program
Day 1: Welcome to Mexico
Arrivals and transfer to the hotel. Welcome to Mexico Briefing & Coctel. There will be an evening tour to admire the light of city and legends.
- Meals included: Dinner
- Culinary experience: From Jalisco, land of Tequila, and Mariachi
Day 2: Encounter past ethnic cultures
Pre-Hispanic Mexico, travel to the past to the dwells of gods, visit archaeological sites, pyramids, and step in the footsteps of early native nations, one of greatest world civilizations of ancient time world heritage by UNESCO.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Culinary experience: Mexican pastries, pre-hispanic food from Toltec culture
Day 3: Colonial and Novo Hispanic era
You will visit Mexica-Aztec temple, a different culture root of a great nation, visit one of the oldest college in American continent 1583, Inquisition Palace and Cathedral the good and the evil the same day.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Culinary experience: Pre-Hispanic food from Aztec culture and creole
Day 4: Hidden jewels in the city
See the only Byzantine art expression (476-1453 A.C.) found in Mexico City. Explore the pre-Hispanic buildings hidden in the city and the famous mural Mexico trough centuries By Diego Rivera.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Culinary experience: Mestizo and from 1600s food
Day 5: Baroque and its highlights
You will admire architecture, old building, one of the oldest libraries in American continent with 45059 books from century XV to XIX and few from XX a World Heritage by UNESCO, books, and writings from Socartes, Descartes, Galilee, Isaac Newton, polyglot Bible, Christopher Columbus, Padre Kino, James Audubon, Junipero Serra, Carlos de Siguenza and Gongora, Charles Darwin, and Juana Ines de La Cruz among others are there.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Culinary experience: Mexican pastries with French influence, food from Puebla from Viceroyalty era
Day 6: From Archaic times to Viceroyalty
Today you will visit the larges archaeology - anthropology museum the greatest and largest collection from all the pre-Hispanic cultures of Mexico, among them, Maya, Olmec, Aztec, and many more. Then travel to independence and Viceroyalty time of Mexico. You will explore the only castle built by Europeans in the American continent, if the building could talk will tell you many historical events.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Culinary experience : Mexican traditional food
Day 7: A romance influenced the country
Visit and witness one of most famous romances through murals, painting, and houses of Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo, some of the most famous artists of Mexico, love and hate painted on their walls and corners.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Culinary experience: Frida Khalos favorite food
Day 8: Art medley
Through art, you will travel from 1400 to 1917 through paintings and sculptures admire from renaissance, mannerism, baroque, neoclassical, romanticism, realism, impressionism, some surrealism, it might sound complicated but in easy way tips and tricks, the art historian will help you to identify them all.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Culinary experience: The 3 "T"s (tacos, tortas, and tostadas)
Day 9: Arts and crafts, folklore, and Mexican candies
Explore Mexico through centuries by its arts and crafts. Visit some places where you can find handmade arts and crafts from all over Mexico, all kind of materials and techniques, embroidery, carvings, pottery, clay, wood, copper, textiles, fibers, silver, gold, pearls, vanilla, cocoa, candies, and more from pre-Hispanic cultures to century XXI. In the evening, enjoy your farewell dinner.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Culinary experience: Aztec food and Mexican gourmet
Day 10: Departures, hasta la vista!
- Meals: Coffee and pastries
Included excursions
There will be 24 tours and guided programs. You will visit sites from pre-Hispanic time to Modern times, all its archaeological sites buildings, tianguis (market in Nahuatl) museums and cathedrals are like open books full of history, and stories of its inhabitants and messages.
Instructors
Claudio
Claudio is an architect will be combining his knowledge, experience, and expertise in architecture from pre-hispanic buildings to modern times will show you the messages transmitted by buildings to provide you the best tour experience ever.
Edgard
Edgar is an art historian will be giving you tips and tricks to identify pieces of art created since pre-hispanic times to modern , will be combining his knowledge, experience, and expertise to provide you the best tour experience ever.
Maria Elena Muriel
Maria Elena has a degree in Tourism administration but made a career in ecotourism and public land administration , she is a Certified Tour guide by the Minister of tourism and national park service (NPS) with speciality in Natural & Cultural interpretation including Mexican Culinary expertise, She will be combining her knowledge, experience, and expertise with architect & art historian to provide you the best tour experience ever.
Location
This holiday will take place in Mexico City (CDMX), and the surroundings areas and safe places in Mexico.
Food
During this holiday, you will be served daily Mexican meals consisting of nine breakfasts, eight lunches, and nine dinners along with purified water.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- 24 tours and guided programs
- Guided visit to archaeological sites, pyramids, museums, old churches, cathedral, governor palace, murals, historical buildings and homes, castle, and folkloric show
- Visit to arts and crafts markets
- Visit the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO among others
- 9 Mexican breakfasts
- 8 Mexican lunches
- 9 Mexican dinners
- Purified water
- Entrance tickets and permits
- Guides
- Local experts and hosts
- Airport transfer on arrival
- 9 nights accommodation
- 1 ID and holder
What's not included
- Travel documents such as passport or visa
- Airline tickets
- Airport transfers on departure day
- Tips or gratuities
- Alcoholic drinks
- Personal expenses
- Medical and travel insurance
- What is not mentioned in this promotional
- Special meals at extra cost
- Single supplement
- A camera's fee in some museums
How to get there
Recommended Airports
MEX
Mexico City International Airport
6 km
Transfer included
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Mexico City International Airport (MEX). Transfer from the airport is included. Birding Los Cabos will pick you up from the airport.
Airport: Mexico City International Airport
Airport transfer included: Mexico City International Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 40% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 10 days before arrival.
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