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Cuernavaca – Taxco

October 19, 2014
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Begin in Cuernavaca, known as the “city of eternal spring”, you will take a scenic drive to Taxco, the “silver city”. The city tumbles across a hillside with winding cobblestone streets, tile roofed buildings, cozy squares, and a strong Old World ambience that has survived through hundreds of years. Visit one of Mexico’s grandest churches,…

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Xochimilco

October 19, 2014
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Xochimilco is an incredibly scenic area in the south of Mexico City, just an hour south from Mexico City’s historical centre. On this tour you can drift in a flat-bottomed boat through the lovely floating gardens of Xochimilco and marvel at the once-enormous agrarian canal system that fed the Aztec capital. In Aztec times, with…

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Museum of Anthropology

October 16, 2014
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Do not miss to visit the Anthropological Museum, which is the finest archaeological museum in the world. It is located on more than 10,000 square meters; it has 26 exhibitive halls where you can see thousands of artifacts, including burial tombs, giant Olmec stone heads, the famous Aztec Calendar Stone and the reconstructed Mayan temple.

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Palaces of Mexico City

October 16, 2014
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Chapultepec Castle (Castillo de Chapultepec in Spanish) Is located on top of Chapultepec Hill. The name Chapultepec stems from the Náhuatl word chapoltep?cwhich means “at the grasshopper’s hill”. It is located in the middle of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City at a height of 2,325 meters (7,628 ft) above sea level. The site of the…

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The Best Museums of Mexico City

October 16, 2014
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The Museo Dolores Olmedo (or the Dolores Olmedo Museum) is an art museum in the capital of Mexico, based on the collection of the Mexican businesswoman Dolores Olmedo. In 1962, Dolores Olmedo acquired a property at La Noria, Xochimilco in southern Mexico City, which she would later convert into the museum named after herself in…

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Basalti Prisms & Haciendas

October 16, 2014
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These basaltic prisms located in San Miguel Regla are the unique ones in the whole American continent. These Basaltic Prisms are made of igneous rock, known as prismatic basalt, formed into a fifty meters high vertical wall of gigantic columns, decorating the walls of a gully known as Alcholoya. These basaltic prisms were formed by…

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