Our Lady of Guadalupe • San Juan Teotihuacan • Acolman • Plaza of Three Cultures • Zocalo Plaza • Chapultepec Park • Tlaxcala • Ocotlan • Puebla • Xochimilco • Taxco
7 days ~ Our price includes transportation from your hometown and exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels everywhere
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Trip Includes:
- Daily Mass is available.
- Exclusively 4-5 star hotels in downtown areas.
- All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine is included with all dinners.
- Transportation with luxury bus.
- All entrance fees to all the sites.
- All tips to everyone involved in the tour.
- The tour fees for our guides. Our tour guides are well educated, caring, and professional.
- Luggage handling. Please pack light, one piece of luggage and one carry-on.
- We limit our group to a maximum of 24 passengers, unless the priest on the trip requests a larger group. Small groups with a 5 star service.
- If you are traveling alone and you allow us to find you a roommate, you don't have to pay the single supplement. If you wish to have your own room and you are not open to the idea of rooming with another passenger, then $900 is what you pay for single supplement fee.
- Dress casually all throughout the trip. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting Basilicas or churches.
- Taxi and wheelchair is provided gratis for those passengers who cannot walk. But a traveling companion has to push the wheelchair throughout the trip.
Trip Does Not Include
- Lunches
- Trip Insurance
Payment Information
- $1,500 deposit due by credit card at registration
- Balance due September 11, 2015
- If you sign up after the final payment due date, you must pay the entire cost of the trip immediately.
- We accept payment by credit card, personal check, bank check, or money order.
Trip Itinerary
December 9: Departing from the United States, upon arrival in Mexico City you will be met by our Pro Catholic Tour Guide, then, on to the hotel for check in, with a little time to rest and refresh. Mass will be before dinner. Your overnight stay will be in Mexico City.
December 10: After breakfast we will head to the UNESCO World Heritage site of San Jaun Teotihuacan, in the northern part of Mexico City. We will explore the ruins of the Pyramids of the Sun, the Moon and the Aztec Temple of Tlaloc, along with Quetzalcoatl, as we tour the Archeological Zone. You will have free time for lunch and to shop at the local arts and crafts markets. Later in the day, we will visit a 16th century monastery at Acolman. Your dinner and lodging will be in Mexico City.
December 11: Following breakfast, our first stop will be in the Tlatelolco Neighborhood of Mexico City for a tour of the Plaza of Three Cultures. Mexican history is explained by the name "Three Cultures" visibly depicted by on site buildings showing pre-Columbian, Spanish colonial, and the independent "mestizo" nation. Continuing on, we proceed to Zocalo Plaza, touring the historical Archaeological Center, the National Palace and the Metropolitan Cathedral. After lunch our afternoon will be spent at one of the largest city parks in the Western Hemisphere: at beautiful Chapultepec Park. Today is a day to enjoy casual strolls, shopping, picture taking, and learning more about Mexican culture. Your evening meal and lodging will be in Mexico City.
December 12: Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and our whole day will spent at the Shrine, beginning with Mass at the Basilica. Following tours of the museum, Chapel of the Indians, and the shrine, we will also enjoy Tepeyac Hill, Capilla del Cerrito, and Tepeyac Garden and then have time for personal meditation, contemplation and prayers. We will return to Mexico City for our evening dinner together and stay overnight in Mexico City.
December 13: After breakfast, we start the morning with a breath-taking ride through the mountains, arriving at Tlaxcala and the Shrine of San Miguel del Milagro. It’s here in 1531, St. Michael the Archangel appeared to Diego Lazaro de San Francisco, directing him to the Grotto and a well with miraculous curative waters. We then journey to the “place of the burning oak,” Ocotlan. In 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego Bernadino, and burned an image of her perfections into the trunk of an old oak tree. Perfectly preserved, the ‘image in a tree’ resides in the Basilica of Our Lady of Ocotlan. After lunch we continue on to Puebla for a wonderful tour that includes the Cathedral, the magnificent Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, with its most famous, splendid scalloped gold leaf walls and ceilings, and St. Dominic's Church. For our last stop today we will see the incorrupt body of St. Sebastian de Aparicio at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi. We will have a delicious dinner at a local restaurant in Puebla before returning to Mexico City and retire for the night.
December 14: Today, after breakfast we first explore Xochimilco and then take a leisure ride in a flat bottom boat along the canals, where we can view the unique floating gardens, Next, we journey through the Morelos Valley into the well-known Sierra Madres, discovering the hidden town of Taxco, famous for its rich source of silver and its colorful colonial Mexican art. As we stroll through town on foot, visiting several churches, we will include the Church of Santa Prisca and The Temple of the Ex-Convent of San Bernardino de Siena. Our relaxed pace will allow time for shopping in Taxco and dinner before returning to our hotel in Mexico City for overnight.
December 15: After breakfast our bus brings us to the airport in Mexico City to fly back to the United States.