A SPICED HEARTH MEXICO
COLOURS AND JOYS MULTIPLE COUNTRY OF HERITAGE

Discovery

Your customized trip to Mexico cosmopolitan, gigantic, will be coloured, diversified, dazzling like its Mexico City capital. You will find there beaches sumptuous on the shores of Yucatán, the villas and the baroque churches, the national parks, the colonial vestiges and the Mayan sites. Let allure itself by the wealth of this country at the time of your stay in Mexico. A travel to Mexico will combine balneal stay, plunged, trekking, cruising, cultural stay according to your desires.

Identity

Mexico City and its area offer to the visitors a first occasion to impregnate Mexican culture, between the colonial buildings and the coloured districts of Mexico City, and the vestiges of the Maya city of Teotihuacan. In a broader perimeter around the capital, you will not know any more where to give head enters the many colonial cities placed by the Spanishs on the road of the money, like Guanajato or Guadalajara. But the north and the south of the country are not in rest either: under the border of the United States, extends indeed the Western Sierra Veined whose sometimes desert landscape is strewn with indigenous villages, cactus or with imposing canyons.

The southern part of the country finally, seems to concentrate the principal types of tourist attraction of the country. It is the area of the great Maya archaeological sites to which the names are enough to make dream the apprentices Indiana Jones – Chichen Itza and Palenque to quote only them –, but also paradisiac beaches of bay of Acapulco or peninsula of Yucatan, or of the charming colonial cities as San Cristobal of mow Put, famous for its Indian market. You will have understood it, a travel to Mexico is the occasion to discover the cultures of yesterday and today which give to the country this so particular charm, but also to benefit from paradisiac beaches, and to discover its grandiose landscapes.

Culture & Traditions

GASTRONOMY

The reputation of the Mexican gastronomy is not any more to make. Known as a spiced gastronomy, you will find there in particular the guacamole, the tacos, the fajitas, the enchiladas, the quesadillas and much more.

MAYAN SITES

The Mexican territory is strewn with more incredible Mayan sites the ones than the others. This old population occupied Mexico several centuries ago. However their traces are still quite present at Chichen Itza, Coba, Uxmal, Palenque, Tulum and well of others.

INDIANS OF MEXICO

Mexico counts a large number of native-born people. You will find the Cudgels of Oaxaca there, the last Maya civilisations in Yucatan, Tamahumaras which live in the Chihuahua, Yaquis of Sonara, or Huicholes which are famous for their coloured crafts.

 

SHARKS WHALES

A stay in Mexico is also the occasion of snorkeller with the mythical shark whale! These 14 meters length marine mammals come to broad from the peninsula from Yucatan from June to September. An unforgettable experiment closest to this giant of the seas.

Essential

In Mexico, the climate strongly differs according to the areas. In north, the summers are very hot and the winters are cold. Central Meseta as for it has a climate moderated with fresh nights. The coastlines have a tropical climate which is wet and hot. The rainy season which is non-existent on the plates north extends from June to September on the rest of the country. The best period to leave is thus from October to May. Moreover Mexico has several time zones, therefore the jet lag is not the same one everywhere. That indicated below is that of Mexico City in summer (season reversed in Mexico).

10°-15° WINTER / 20°-30° SUMMER
PESO MEXICANO
-7H
SPANISH
MEXICO
TACOS / ENCHILADAS

Form your trip

The stages

MEXICO CITY

Capital of Mexico, Mexico City can frighten with its 23 million inhabitants and its proportions tentacular. But this city abounds in wonders. Appointment on Zocalo, 3rd greater place of the world where you will directly have access to the national, equivalent palace of the Elysium in France, and to the impressive cathedral. Continue the visit while going up to the 42ème stage of Torre Latino and do not hesitate to sip a cocktail by admiring the panoramic view over Mexico City. Basilica de Gaudalupe, second place of worship more visited in the world after the Vatican, is worth really the turning. Have a break in the bosque huge park of Chapultec, called “the lung of Mexico City”, where you will forget during a few moments the pollution and the noise of the city. One evening in Condesa is impossible to circumvent. It is the connected district of Mexico City where you should have fun by dancing a good part of the night!

PUEBLA

Embedded in the shade of two volcanos, with 2,160 meter altitudes, Puebla, the “city of the Angels” was founded in 1531. This historical capital with the spellbinding charm is among the four more beautiful cities of Mexico. Currently, it counts more than 1,500,000 inhabitants. Thanks to its mythical landscapes which preserve the Baroque architecture of old times, this colonial jewel was declared world heritage of humanity by UNESCO in 1987. Puebla is a town of legend to unequalled splendours, located at a hundred kilometers of Mexico City. Its streets its architectures, its flavours and its stories reflect all its cultural magnificence. To see in Puebla: Parián with Zocalo, the large cathedral, the church Santa Domingo, the convent of Santa Rosa, Museo Amparo…

OAXACA

If there is a city of Mexico which one should not miss visiting, it is well Oaxaca or more exactly Oaxaca de Juarez, in the State d' Oaxaca, in the South-west of the country, 470 kilometers of Mexico City. Mixture of cultures, between zapotèques civilisations and Spanish influence, Oaxaca is exceptional. Founded in 1529 by the Spanish conquistadors in the South-west of the country, Oaxaca de Juarez preserved until today his aspect of colonial city, with the obsolete charm, with its lanes at the houses of varied colors. One finds many remarkable artisanal products with Oaxaca, the markets of Juarez or of the 20 of Noviembre, which also propose Mexican traditional dishes. A little apart from the city, draws up the archaeological site of Monte Alban, old military center and monk of the time pre-Colombian. The Mexicans, conscious of the archaeological treasures which abound in their country, always endeavoured to preserve these vestiges after the disappearance of the city towards the end of the 9th century.

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS

Bathed by the light of the high plateaus, the pretty colonial city of San Cristobal of mow Put, perched with 2,300 meter altitudes, attracts many visitors. You will not in particular fail to notice the yellow frontage sharp of its cathedral, which contains sumptuous worked retables. The city is also known for the Indian villages which surround it, like that of San Juan de Chamula. The Indians of the hills gather besides regularly in San Cristobal of mow Put at the time of the large market. Those which are interested in the Indian people of the area, Lacandons, will also find explanations in the center of studies and protection of the Na Bolom Indians, in the part is city.

PALENQUE

Located in the middle of the jungle and being spread out over nearly 15 km2, the Mayan site of Palenque fascine from its remarkably preserved constructions, easily letting guess the power of this city which knew its apogee between 6th and the 8th century. Constructions decorated with sculptures and decorations in stuccos constitute superb testimonies of the size of the Maya civilisation and of its Article the temple of Registrations is most impressive of the buildings of the site. In the past painted in red, it shelters fall it from Pakal, which was sovereign of Palenque at the 7th century.

CAMPECHE

Registered with the World heritage of UNESCO, this port city of the Caribbean coast in the beginning a small village of fishermen was. The Spanishs installed there a large port at the time colonial, to which they added fortifications to protect it from the regular attacks of freebooters whose he was the subject. These fortifications are still visible today as well as the elegant frontages of the colonial buildings of the city.

MERIDA

Known under the name of white city in Mexico, Mérida is the capital of Yucatán. Theatre of the bullfights, the city was marked by the Spanish conquest. The Maya culture is also immortalized through its buildings. This destination is coveted more and more by the travellers, not only for his cultural heritage but also for its atypical landscapes. Mérida indeed contains some of the greatest Mexican archaeological sites. The local arts and crafts is completely remarkable. It is the ideal place for those which wish to discover the heritage of the Maya while benefitting from the gastronomy of Mérida, which is different from the traditional Mexican kitchen.

TULUM

Located at the south-east of Mexico in a Maya ancient city, the archaeological site of Tulum will make you discover the superb vestiges of the one of the last cities built by the Mayas. Moreover, the Temple of downward God and the Temple of the frescos will fascinate you because of the exceptional beauty of their completions. Your discovery of this place of exception will be able to continue with a diving in an underground river of the park of Labnai ha which is famous for its crowned caves. The interior of the caves located in a forest will be able to be also visited while plunging in Cenote Dos Ojos. Lastly, you will be able to recover from the emotions felt at the time of these adventures while spending one day to the beach.

CANCUN

Located close to the Gulf of Mexico, Cancun is a privileged destination for its tropical climate whose the whole profits from the area of Yucatan. The city attracts the young people of the whole world as well as the travellers in search of remarkable sites like the Maya ruins like “El Rey” or “Yamil Lu ' um”. A stay in Cancun will ensure you a total expatriation and you will be able to practise there many sports in the middle of tropical nature. The amateurs of idleness will not be in rest with white sand beaches as far as the eye can see.

TAXCO

Taxco or more exactly Taxco de Alarcỏn, is a small town of the State of Guerrero, distant from Mexico City of 160 kilometers. The altitude of the city is rather high: 1600 meters. It is an old mining city with its abundant layers of money and tin, built in 1528 by the Spanishs. That explains why one of the major activities of Taxco is goldsmithery, even if the mines currently do not produce more anything. But the city with the surrané charm presents several other aspects interesting for the visitors. One still finds the colonial style there, with the small houses with the tiled roofs agglutinant on the hillsides like bunches of grapes, the charming alleys, the small public places with the fountains of another age. Let us not forget either the splendid church Santa Prisca there San Sebastian, of baroque style, with its pink façade and the dome of its blue roof.

ACAPULCO

In a decoration of dreamed, bathing under an extremely pleasant climate, Acapulco is the promise of a balneal stay under the sign of idleness and the relaxation… Top-of-the-range resorts of Condesa, with the museum of the fort of San Diego, via the bars and nightclubs with the festive atmosphere of the boulevard Miguel-Aleman or of Mow Broke, you will note that Acapulco has what to occupy the holiday makers. Sat at table with the one of the restaurants of the city, you will see with two blocks of houses and some streets only, the ocean sparkling of beauty. Because Acapulco, it is before a a whole legendary bay where all the pleasures of water and beach are with go. Even the enthusiasts for big thrills will find their happiness by trying the “diving of death” from the top of cliffs of Quebrada, for a jump of 35 meters.

CAVES OF LOLTUN

Crowned, Grutas de Loltun are a place impossible to circumvent at the time of your visit of Mexico. And due, these remarkable caves reveal you a side of the enthralling history of the Maya civilisation! By venerating the god of the rain, Chac, these ancients knew to benefit from what nature had of invaluable: water. In these sources of groundwater, you will see engraved on the walls their culture and their history. Examples of reference of Maya rupestral art, the caves of Loltun offer opportunity to you of discovering paintings without age engraved in the rock, but also offerings and old objects of worship which time knew to preserve in a splendid maze of stalactites and stalagmites. Guaranteed emotion.

COBA

Whereas the tourist surge fact fumes in most archaeological sites of Mexico, the Maya city of Coba however remains virgin of world, or almost. In a decoration of dreamed, this site knew to preserve its at the same time mystical and mythical facet. While sauntering in its lanes bordered of some ceremonial and religious buildings, you can only leave free course to your imagination. You will see the priests reading predict them through the sinuosities of the temples, you will see the called upon wizards the obscure beings of the jungle, you will admire the painters and sculptors to let their finger dance on the steles of the temples! In short, you will see Coba taking again life with each step which you would take, that you visit the temple of paintings or the pyramid of Nohoch Mul. And especially, you will be surprised to admire without moderation the forest breaking, immense, devouring year after year the traces of the man…

MARINE NATIONAL PARK OF SIAN KA'AN

For unforgettable vacancies, explore the marine National park of Sian Ka ' year. Principal ecological reserve of the country with its 525,000 hectares of total surface area, it invites you to remarkable walks through the forests, the lagoons, the mangrove swamps, and the marshes. Constituted mainly of a splendid fine sand littoral, this picturesque park is the point of observation par excellence coral reefs and birds in any kind. In this virgin nature, blue brushes, martins-fishermen, frigates, herons circle above your head whereas the monkeys, the pumas and the crocodiles watch for each one of your steps. After you to be resource in the shade of palm trees, admiring the scintillating lakes, natural habitat of a broad variety of fishes, leave on a tour of surrounding Mayan ruins. Guaranteed escape!

PLAYA DEL CARMEN

From now on tourist resort of reference, Playa del Carmen books an exceptional stay to you. Nerve centre of Riviera Maya, it invites you to saunter in its historic streets bordered of hotel establishments and bungalows, in particular on the side of Playacar. Feet in water, you let make drunk by the blue sparkling of the Caribbean. Moreover, you will not be able to resign yourselves to return in your hotel room after the round of the bars when everyone decides to bathe in the sea at 2:00 of the morning and to be stretched out on the beaches of an immaculate white! Near Playa del Carmen, leave to explore Tulum and its archaeological site of reference and climb the 91 steps of the pyramid of the Maya city of Chichén Itzá for an idyllic panorama. Also discover Xcaret with its park ecoarcheologic and its underground rivers and plunge in the water of the natural pool of Xel-ha. Visit finally the island of Cozumel with its remarkable coral reef, paradise of the scuba diving.

COZUMEL

For an unforgettable travel, leave to the conquest Cozumel, “the island of the swallows” classified second island with the world coral reef. Destination of reference, it invites you to live of exclusiveness typical environment in the Caribbean with its paradisiac beaches and its warm waters favourable with the diving, the kayak, the water skiing and the windsurfing. Established in the middle of a luxuriant nature, off Playa del Carmen, this village invites you to discover a surprising variety of fauna and flora. You will fall in love with his littoral from an immaculate white, with its steep coasts and its lagoons of an unequalled purity. Paradise of the diving, it invites you to discover its idyllic seabeds, where fishes and molluscs in any kind evolve through the coral reefs. Concurrently to its many picturesque rural villages, Cozumel guarantees to you the comfort of the hotel complexes and the tourist installations of its downtown area, in particular as regards San Miguel with his splendid historic center. Do not miss either the Mayan ruins of San Gervasio, the ecological park of Chankanaab with its tropical forests as well as the reefs of Palancar.

TEOTIHUACAN

Teotihuacan is one of the innumerable archaeological sites which account Mexico and one of most spectacular. It is even located in the valley of Mexico City. Going back approximately to 200 av. J.C., one does not know with precision which built it, nor the tribes which lived there. Perhaps of Onomi or Totonaques. But it is known that the city knew its hour of glory around the year 500 a. J.C., making of it more the big city of Mesoamerica, and that it declined nearly five centuries later. On their arrival on the site, the Aztec ones were impressed so much by its proportions which they regarded Teotihuacan as the equivalent of the Olympus for the Greeks: field of the gods, from where the world was created. The layout of the city started from a NORTH-SOUTH directed central axis: “the Alley of Deaths” bordered by the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.  The Temple of Quetzalcoatl is also part of the treasures of Teotihuacan. As many jewels which were worth with the site to be registered with the World heritage of Humanity.

UXMAL

Uxmal was a major ancient city of the classical era Maya.  The site is with nearly 60 kilometers of the town of Mérida, in the area of Puuc. Astronomy largely influenced the construction of Uxmal. This city, great religious center at the beginning, slipped towards the trade later. But the preponderance of the religion left traces with the existence of cultural buildings like the extraordinary Pyramid of the Soothsayer or Pyramid of the Magician, who has an oval unusual structure. Other monuments are also remarkable, like the Palace of the Governor, enormous and yet of balanced architecture; Mow Monjas or the Quadrilateral of the Nuns, another palace with whom them Spanish found an air of convent, or the Large Pyramid which, as its name indicates it, is largest and most imposing of Uxmal. On each one of its buildings, many carved low-reliefs come to enrich the decoration for greatest happiness by the amateurs by culture.

CHICHEN ITZA

Major tourist destination of Mexico, Chichén Itza is a very old city, whose name means “being near the well”. It is located in the province of Yucatan. This dry area has despite everything many water supply points - cenotes -, thus encouraging Itza (name of a Mexican tribe) to settle there towards 450 of our era. It is not known why Itza forsook this flourishing city around year 550. The Mayas then occupied it, and after them, they are Toltèques which was established there. Chichén Itza thus became an important religious center. These various people, especially the Mayas, left their print on the site. One primarily notes it on the famous pyramid Kukulkan (Plumed serpent) with the perfect proportions. This pyramid counts among the seven new wonders of the world since 2007.

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