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El
Tajin near Veracruz
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14 days/13 nights. Escorted
tour via luxury A/C vehicle. Expert bilingual guide. Professional
driver. Arrive Cancun. Depart Mexico City. All meals included.
Abbreviated itinerary.
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Guided tour of Palenque. Dinner and overnight at the
hotel.
Morning dedicated to enjoying the beauty of the waterfalls at Agua Azul
and Misol Ha. Dinner and overnight in Villahermosa, the capital city of
Tabasco.
As you enter the park you will pass a giant Ceiba
Tree at the start of the path through the lush tropical setting
containing 33 Olmec sculptures and Colossal Heads, Overnight in the town
of Catemalco on the shore of the beautiful lagoon.
Tour colonial Tlacotalpan before enjoying lunch at a
typical restaurant. Continue to the historic port city of Veracruz.
Tour Veracruz, Mexico's oldest port city. Dinner and
overnight at hotel in Xicotepec.
Continue to El Tajin, the highest achievement of the
Classic Veracruz civilization. El Tajin was first occupied about 100 AD.
but the civilization's peak was reached between 600AD to 1100. Human
sacrifice and the closely related Mesoamerican ballgame were at the core
of El Tajin's ritual life. Continue to Teotihuacan to tour the Avenue of
the Dead and the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. At its height,
Teotihuacan may have had a population of 200,000 and controlled an area
of about 26,000 square kilometers. Overnight at hotel in Mexico City.
Tour the museums of Anthropology and Natural History,
the Zocalo. The ruins of Tenochtitlan and other highlights of this great
city.
Transfer to Mexico City Airport.
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specify your dates, how many people including children's ages, specify
if you need air, from where.
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Arrive Cancun or Merida. Airport greeting and
transfer to hotel for Welcome Dinner and reception.
Visit Dzitnup, an underground wonder of the Yucatan's
natural hydraulic system. Tour majestic Chichen Itza. Dinner and
overnight in colonial Merida.
Tour the glorious colonial city of Merida. Early
afternoon departure for the hotel at Uxmal. Following dinner marvel at
the Light and Sound Spectacle at Uxmal. Overnight at Uxmal.
Tour Uxmal's spectacular sites. After lunch at the
hotel, drive through the scenic countryside and visit Kabah and Labna.
After a photo stop at Artist Point enjoy the indigenous community of
Hopelchen and its lovely church built in 1667. Tour Hoxob, a community
closely associated with the Puuc style. Overnight and dinner at a hotel
in the jungle of Southern Campeche.
Morning drive through the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve
which contains countless species of birds, butterflies and wild animals.
The prehistoric metropolis of Calakmul was discovered and named by
botanist Cyrus Lundell in 1931. Calakmul dominated the so-called Kingdom
of the Serpent's Head (250-750 AD). This group skirmished constantly
with archrival Tikal. Overnight at a hotel in the jungle of Southern
Campeche.
Tour Chicanna, Becan and Xpujil before arriving at
Palenque for dinner and overnight.
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