Photo Gallery - Explorica Mexico Educational Tour ECPI College 2005Day 1 - Tour Begins
Day 2 - Visit Mexico City Landmarks Day 3 - Visit Historical Landmarks
Day 4 - Taxco
Day 5 - Acapulco
Days 6-10 - Your tour director will arrange optional (extra charge) excursions if your tour group chooses to stay in Acapulco for a few days. Ideas: Day 10 - Enjoy a farewell dinner with your Mexico tour guide, perhaps at the Hard Rock Cafe. Home tomorrow!
Through photos, we're following a group of students as they travel through Mexico on an educational tour with Explorica, student travel experts. Candid photos, beautiful landscapes and an itinerary for Explorica's Mexico City-Taxco-Acapulco trip -- a preview of what you can expect to see and do on an educational tour of Mexico with a student travel tour group company.
Explorica Mexico Educational Tour Itinerary
- Fly to Mexico City, Mexico.
- Meet the tour director and check into your Mexico City hotel.
- Take a casual walk in Mexico City -- cruise down the Paseo de la Reforma, or Reform Avenue.
- Visit the San Felipe de Jesus church.
- Take a sightseeing tour of Mexico City with a local guide. Includes a trip through the vast zócalo (main square), the beautiful Metropolitan Cathedral, built in honor of the immaculate conception, and see and learn about Diego Rivera murals at the Palacio Nacional.
- Visit Xochimilco (Aztec Floating Gardens) - cruise the canals in colorful boats and check out the nearby market.
- Tour the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe -- learn about the "miracle" and see the beautiful basilica.
- Take a guided excursion through Teotihuacán - climb the Pyramid of the Sun and walk the Avenue of the Dead to the Pyramid of the Moon. Tour the Teotihuacán museum.
- Travel by bus to the colonial town of Taxco after breakfast.
- Visit the lovely Santa Prisca Church with a local guide.
- Learn about Taxco silver and do some informed shopping. Check out your hotel's cute bar and cool mine shaft.
- Travel through the majestic Sierra Madres to Acapulco and hit the Acapulco beaches!
- See Fort San Diego, which is free on Sundays.
- Go"window" shopping at local outdoor mercados (markets).
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Check out La Condesa beach downtown and Playa Pie de la Cuesta, about five miles west.
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