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Jilotepec - Market Day & Handicraft (half day)            US$ 18 per person

Friday is the big market day in the neighbor town of Jilotepec. You will have the possibility to discover the largest weekly market in the region where all the people from the surrounding villages bring their goods to sell.

Colorful vegetables, tasty fruits, fashionable sombreros, fine leather boots, tack for horse and rider and great mounds of chili peppers are everywhere.

After the market you take a stroll around the town square and visit the local church from the 17th century. The drive back will be through the country side and we stop at some places where they offer hand made pottery, hand painted Mexican ceramic and colorful Mexican table clothes and bed covers.

 

 

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Tula - Atlantes & Shopping (half day)                             US$ 18 per person

Come with us to visit the archeological site of the famous Atlantes of Tula (see photo below), thought to be the capital of the ancient Toltec people. You will be able to admire the giant stone figures once you have climbed the steep stairs up to the temple. Along the walkway, to the main square of the site, there are many little stalls with art and handicrafts from all over Mexico.

 

After the Atlantes we will drive to the town center of Tula where you may visit the colorful Zocalo -town square- and mix with the locals or go shopping to a Mexican tack or Western clothes store.   - Includes trip and admission to the site -  

   

 

 

San Miguel de Allende (full day - min 2people)                     US$ 78 per person

As an almost picture perfect colonial city, San Miguel de Allende traces its roots to the village planned in 1555 as a watch station along the road between Mexico City and the rich silver mines of Zacatecas. Subsequently, San Miguel attracted cultural and wealthy noblemen who built impressive palaces.

Today's San Miguel remains a peaceful artist's colony during most of the year ... with cobble-stoned streets, pastel colored colonial buildings with flower filled patios and an air of tranquility that stimulates the mind and pleases the soul.

The thing most people notice first in San Miguel is The Parroquia, the pseudo gothic church in the heart of San Miguel de Allende. Legend has it that the architect of the facade (added in 1888) of the church had never seen a gothic church and had to take his ideas from picture postcards of the gothic cathedrals of Europe. Apparently not much of a draftsman, he drew pictures of his concept in the dirt in front of the church to show his workmen what he envisioned.

San Miguel de Allende has been declared a national monument. Virtually all the buildings you see in the central part of the village date from the colonial era, and newer buildings are required by law to conform to existing architecture. Because so much of the city remains as it was during the days of silver mining, many of the hotels, restaurants, and shops along its cobbled streets are housed in beautiful mansions dating from those years.

San Miguel is also called... 'Cuna de Sueños' -birthplace of dreams- and is the winter residence of a large community of Americans, some retired, some attending art or language school, and some who have come here to live simply and follow their creative muses... painting, writing and sculpting.

A great trip for shoppers and a real treasure for architecture lovers... churches, small town squares, dreamlike alleys and many hidden Patio (Mexican courtyard). Coffee shops, antiques, art, paintings and many more things you may find when you wander around the town.

Lunch included

 

 

 

Tequisquiapan & 'Peña de Bernal' (full day - min 2people)   US$ 78 per person

A mosaic of small, irregular, interlocking stone blocks pave Tequisquiapan's colorful, narrow streets, which lead to the central square, the Plaza Civica. Traffic is closed a block or two from it creating a pedestrian zone. Scattered throughout the town are several hotels with their own springs. Just a few yards from the numerous shops surrounding the Plaza de Tequisquiapan lies the market where visitors can admire and purchase beautiful handicrafts such as cane, wicker and rattan baskets and jewelry with semi-precious stones. You may also find here some of the finest clothing, the typical Mexican 'Manta' a cotton cloth which is used mostly in its natural color.

At the gateway to the Sierra Gorda, rising up is the peak of San Bernal, a gigantic 1150 ft (350 mt) high monolith, the third highest in the world after the Rock of Gibraltar and Río de Janeiro's Sugarloaf Mountain. It was formed some 100 million years ago during the Jurassic period, when it must have been at least three times higher than today.

This rock is said to bring the inhabitants on the town a long life; the average life span of Bernal residents is said to be a staggering 94.7 years.

Many people make a pilgrimage to the highest point hikeable, visiting a little chapel about halfway up. On the Spring equinox, people gather all dressed in white to form a human belt around the monolith.

Lunch included

 

 

 

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