Mexico City • Our Lady of Guadalupe • San Juan Teotihuacan • Coyoacan • Tlaxcala • Ocotlan • Puebla • Cuernavaca • Taxco • Cacahuamilpa
10 Days - Our prices include airfare from your home town and exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels everywhere
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Trip Includes
- A Catholic priest will be with the group to celebrate Mass. Daily Mass is available.
- Round-trip airfare from your hometown connecting to a gateway city to fly overseas is included.
- Airport Taxes, Security Fees, and Fuel Surcharges!
- Exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas.
- All breakfasts and 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. Most of them have their PhD's in Church history, archeology, philosophy, languages, or Theology.
- Luggage handling. Please pack light, one piece of luggage and one carry-on.
- If you are traveling alone and you allow us to find you a roommate, you don't have to pay the $900 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.
- A wheelchair can be provided for those passengers who cannot walk, with prior notice at registration for $150. A traveling companion has to push the wheelchair throughout the trip.
- At the time of registration, as a part of the total balance, a non-refundable $500 deposit (hotel and airfare deposit) is due in the form of a check. For example, if your trip costs $3,700, when you sign up and you pay the $500 deposit, your balance would be $3,200 and is due 4 months before departure date. If you sign up after the final payment due date or at the last minute, you must overnight the entire cost of the trip immediately.
Trip Does Not Include
- Lunch
- Insurance ~ The total trip cost is non-refundable, so we recommend trip insurance to protect your investment.
Trip Itinerary
September 8 - Day 1: Depart from the USA. Upon arrival in Mexico City you will be met by your tour guide and transfer to your hotel. There you will have time to rest and refresh. Dinner and overnight in Mexico City.
September 9 - Day 2: Pick up at Hotel and transfer to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe beginning with Mass at the Basilica. After Mass we will have time for a tour of the shrine including the Museum, Tepeyac Hill, Capilla del Cerrito, Tepeyac Garden, and the Chapel of the Indians. There will also be time for personal devotions. Dinner and overnight in Mexico City.
September 10 - Day 3: After breakfast we will head to the northern part of Mexico City to Tlatelolco, to visit the Three Culture Square, where is located the XVI Century Parish of Santiago Tlatelolco first catholic church of the New Continent that still exist dedicated to St. James, to honor the patron saint of the Spanish..Then will drive outside the Mexico City visit TEOTIHUACAN, UNESCO World Heritage Archaeological zone, exploring the ruins of the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon and the Aztec Temple of Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl. Visit a local shop of arts and crafts and enjoy lunch . On the way back to the hotel we will stop at Acolman Agustinian Ex Convent and church, for a tour at the monastery. Dinner and overnight in Mexico City.
September 11 - Day 4: Pick up at Hotel and transfer to Mexico City Historical Center beginning with Mass at the Mexico´s Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana) the oldest and largest cathedral in all of Latin America. Begun in the late 16th century, the cathedral is a medley of styles and dominates the city's huge plaza, the Zócalo. Continue the visit at the Government Mexican Palace, then the visit to the Ancient City of the Mexicas and in the Histórical Center. In the afternoon the tour will continue with shopping in a handcraft store and then we will visit the Aztec Exhibition room at the Anthropology Museum. Dinner and overnight in Mexico City.
September 12 - Day 5: Pick up at Hotel and transfer to Coyoacan, beginning with Mass at the Temple of Saint John the Baptist and Ex Dominican Convent, located in the magic village of Coyoacan. Hernán Cortés and the Spanish, used the area as a headquarters during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and made it the first capital of New Spain between 1521 and 1523. Then the tour continues to Xochimilco, to the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco today, these last lovely remnants of ancient Lake Texcoco and Mexica Culture.A visit to Nuestra Senora de los Remedios will be included. Dinner and overnight in Mexico City.
September 13 - Day 6: Following breakfast, we will leave Mexico City for a spectacular ride through the mountains to Tlaxcala to Ocotlan, "place of the burning oak", where in 1531, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Juan Diego Bernadino. The Blessed Virgin Mary burned an image of her perfections into the trunk of an old oak tree. Also we will visit The Franciscan convent of Our Lady of Assumption, today the Cathedral of Tlaxcala . It is one of a kind for having the bell tower apart from the convent. The interior still keeps a beautiful wooden coffered ceiling in a Mudejar style. After lunch in Tlaxcala we continue on to Puebla where we will enjoy a tour that includes the Cathedral of Puebla and the magnificent Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, with its most famous scalloped gold leaf walls and ceilings, St. Dominic's Church. Return for dinner and overnight in or around Puebla.
September 14 - Day 7: Depart for Cuernavaca where you will take a look at the Cathedral which is the seat of the Catholic diocese of the same name in Mexico . It is a building of the sixteenth century, which makes it one of the oldest cathedrals in the whole country. Dinner and overnight in Taxco.
September 15 - Day 8: Explore the tunnels and caverns of Cacahuamilpa, walk through the corridors and enjoy the sensation of being penetrating the mountain of the grottos of Cacahuamilpa. Discover figures of animals, faces, buildings or beings from other worlds within the caves followed by a walking tour of Taxco, walk through its cobbled streets, stroll through its main square, among which the Parish of Santa Prisca stands out as one of the most beautiful works of the Mexican Baroque. We will go up to the cable car to appreciate an excellent panorama of the city of Taxco. Dinner and overnight in Taxco.
September 16 - Day 9: Free morning/afternoon in Taxco before heading back to Mexico City for dinner and overnight.
September 17 - Day 10: After breakfast, check out and with all our luggage, our van or coach brings us to the Shrine of the Lady of Guadalupe for our farewell and then we will depart to the airport of Mexico City to fly back to the USA.
Please note: We do our best to ensure that all sites listed in this itinerary will be seen. However, due to scheduling conflicts, or other circumstances beyond our control, sites may be visited on a different day than listed. If this happens it will also necessitate a change in the restaurant for dinner. However, we will never sacrifice the quality of the meal, all restaurants will meet Pro Catholic Tour's very high standards.