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 DAY 1: ARRIVAL TO MEXICO

Rendezvous participants at the airport. Flight to Mexico. Meals on board.
On arrival, welcome by your guide.
Transfer to the hotel.
Free dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Where to 2400 meters today stretches from Mexico City, extended 500 years ago when Lake Texcoco on an island was built the magnificent Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. From this lake gradually dried up there is almost as gardens of Xochimilco.
Today, true megalopolis stretching nearly 2,000 square kilometers, Mexico is now, with its 20 million inhabitants, one of the largest cities.

DAY 2: MEXICO

Breakfast.
Departure for a tour of the city including the Zocalo, Cathedral, National Palace with murals by Diego Rivera, Temple Mayor ruins of an Aztec temple ... South side of the Zocalo is surrounded by old and new building of the Municipality of the City or the Federal District, two buildings almost twins. The east side of the cathedral, we see the Nacional Monte de Piedad, which was once the palace of Moctezuma, Hernan Cortes was that book for his staff after the Conquest.
Continue with the visit of the exciting National Museum of Anthropology (Museum closed on Mondays) located in Chapultepec Park and the residential area of Lomas de Chapultepec You'll discover the most beautiful works of art from pre-Hispanic countries. The museum has 23 permanent galleries, including the complete tour covers 5 miles. They are distributed around a vast courtyard inspired by the open spaces of pre-Columbian cities. Part of this esplanade shelter under an aluminum roof of 52 m by 84 m, supported by a huge column decorated with bronze bas-reliefs and surrounded by a veil of water.
Free Lunch
In the afternoon visit the colonial neighborhood of Coyoacan in the south of the city and its market. Back at the hotel
Free dinner and overnight at the hotel of charm

DAY 3: MEXICO / TEOTIHUACAN / PUEBLA (2h30 drive)

Breakfast.
This morning, departure for the continued discovery of Mexico City with the first visit outside the Plaza of Three Cultures, a symbol of various periods of Afghan history and visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe The , the Mecca pilgrimage.
Then departure of Teotihuacan, the famous "City of Gods". Teotihuacan was the first western metropolis and it is here that the cult of the god Quetzalcoatl began. According to legend, he agreed to be tested by throwing himself into the flames. He survived but was transformed into a snake with feathers. This site, which was primarily an Aztec ceremonial center is impressive by their large size and its numerous relics. Visit the Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, the Avenue of the Dead, Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the Palace of the Jaguar ... Visit a lapidary workshop obsidian.
Lunch
Check direction for Puebla, tour the city of Puebla. You will visit the Zocalo, the Chapel of the Rosary Church of Santo Domingo considered the finest example of Baroque decorative architecture at the international level, the Renaissance cathedral and the former Archbishop's Palace, the Parian market.
Dinner free installation at the Hacienda.

DAY 4: PUEBLA / CHOLULA / PUEBLA (1h00 drive)

Breakfast.
The morning visit to 2 baroque-style church Novo-Hispano Acatepec San Francisco and Santa Maria Tonantzintla. Visit the archaeological site of Cholula, and downtown.
Olmec civilization / Toltec, 129 km east of Mexico City; 800 bC 152 ap.J.C. Located at the foot of the imposing volcano Popocatepetl (an altitude of 5 452 meters). Place important trading and religious center that has maintained links with the successive civilizations. Because of its mass, the main temple of Cholula is considered the largest monument in the world built by man: he has approximately seven distinct levels, measures 40 meters wide and covers an area of 16 hectares. Today, the Great Pyramid of Tepanapa is almost entirely covered with earth and no longer the distance that looks like a hill. Towards the middle of the sixteenth century, the Spanish built a church on top of the page.
Lunch.
Late afternoon, return to Puebla enjoy the facilities of the Hacienda.
Free dinner and overnight at the Hacienda

DAY 5: PUEBLA / ATLIXCO / X0CHICALCO / HACIENDA VISTA HERMOSA (3h30 drive)

Breakfast.
The morning drive to Atlixco to visit the center and market. Continue to Xochicalco.
Lunch
Visit this extraordinary archaeological site.
Check for Tequesquitengo. You will sleep in a Hacienda 16th built by Hernan Cortes himself ... it is the latter who conquered Mexico in the head with a handful of conquistadors. In gratitude, the king of Spain offered him a vast area where he set European agriculture. And there he built an immense Hacienda beautifully kept, now converted into a hotel, where we guess even the architecture of medieval Spain.
Arrival at the hotel.
Free time to enjoy the gardens and pool.
Free dinner and overnight at the Hacienda

DAY 6: HACIENDA VISTA HERMOSA / TAXCO / VISTA HERMOSA (2h30 drive)

Breakfast.
The morning departure for the city of Taxco, capital money with its cobbled streets and churches on the flank of the Sierra Madre. Viste a silverware, the Baroque church of Santa Prisca, market and town. Free time to stroll through the many jewels.
Lunch
In the afternoon return to the Hacienda Vista Hermosa to enjoy the different services offered by the Hacienda
Free dinner and overnight at the Hacienda

DAY 7: HACIENDA VISTA HERMOSA / ACAPULCO (3h00 drive)

Breakfast.
In mid-morning departure to Acapulco the pearl of the Pacific. At night, we will admire the famous divers who enter for more than thirty meters high cliffs of the Gorge in the Pacific.
Lunch
Free dinner and overnight at the hotel of charm

DAY 8: ACAPULCO

Breakfast.
Free day to enjoy this world famous resort. If you feel like it you can do water sports, parasailing, walk on water in the bay or simply enjoy the beach.
Lunch
Free dinner and overnight at the hotel of charm

DAY 9: ACAPULCO / CUERNAVACA / MEXICO (4h00 en route)

Breakfast.
After a final swim, we take the road to Cuernavaca, a beautiful colonial city in mild climate. The beauty of the place attracted the largest, as the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma and later, the Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes, the Emperor Maximilian (who made his home in 1866) and Empress Charlotte called "Mama Carlota" .
Visit the Palace of Cortes, where the latter lived with his beautiful paintings "wall" of Diego Rivera on the theme of the struggle for independence of Mexicans that were revolutionary Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. It was probably built from 1527, but subsequently revised, is now a very interesting museum.
Lunch.
Then on to Mexico City where we arrive late afternoon.
Free Dinner
Check into your hotel of charm

DAY 10: MEXICO OUT

Breakfast
Depending on flight times can visit the San Angel neighborhood south of the city, according to your flight, transfer to the Mexico City airport