Teotihuacan. Live a great experience with an archaeologist

Mexico City, Mexico
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Duration6h
Free cancellationFull refund up to 24 hours before
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesSpanish
Group sizeUp to 15 travelers

Overview

This tour is ideal for both starting and ending your visit to Mexico. First because you will have an overview of ancient Mexico that will serve as an introduction to what you will see in the following sites of your trip. Secondly, because with our guide you will get the best archaeological and anthropological information in the history of Mexico, with which you can concrete everything you saw during your visits to other sites of your trip.
Our tour is led by an archaeologist specializing in Teotihuacan and Mexican culture, with 26 years of experience. We are sure that your experience in Teotihuacan will be unique and memorable.

What's included

  • Tourist van with comfortable and reclining seats
  • Access to the archaeological site
  • Lunch
  • Dinner

What to expect

  1. Piramide de la Serpiente Emplumada
    40m · Admission ticket included
    Considered as one of the most beautiful pre-Hispanic buildings in Mexico. It is decorated with sculptures, weighing one tonne, depicting heads of snakes and rain deity; as well as reliefs of rattlesnakes, shells and sea snails. It was built around 250 AD and destroyed and buried by the Teotihuacans themselves in 350 AD.
  2. Piramide de la Luna
    20m · Admission ticket included
    One of the most important Pyramids of the city, whose axes align with the planet venus and the Moon, which allows to associate it with a feminine character. It has a height of 45 m and base 130 m per side.
  3. Piramide del Sol
    30m · Admission ticket included
    Considered to be the third largest building in antiquity. It is 65 m high and 240 - 245 m at its base. Its construction took about 150 years, from the beginning of our era to 150. It is considered to be the center of a "horizon calendar", because its axes are aligned to sunrises and sunsets on specific dates, as well as solstices, dividing the solar year into two periods of 52 and two of 130 days.
  4. 15m · Admission ticket included
    Our archaeologist will explain part of the Teotihuacan construction system, as well as the importance of mural painting in the city with the presence of various plant and animal species, very important for the worldview not only Teotihuacan, but of all the ancient cultures of Mexico
  5. 10m · Admission ticket included
    Here we will see how in the way of seeing the world of the ancient Teotihuacan population, the fiercest and most dangerous animals came to have a very special symbolism related to power, rain, night and climatic phenomena
  6. 20m · Admission ticket included
    Our archaeologist will explain how architecture, painting and sculpture are integrated in Teotihuacan to form in the same space a set full of symbolism and references to archaeoastronomical phenomena
  7. 30m
    We will walk a little along the main axis of the city, 2 km long, which connects with the most important buildings. While our archaeologist explains relevant aspects of the site.
  8. San Francisco Mazapa
    30m
    We will visit an artisan workshop where we will explain how it was worked and the uses and type of the most important material, not only in Teotihuacan, but in all of ancient Mexico: obsidian, glass of volcanic origin. In addition, we will talk about the cultivation and uses of an agave that has been fundamental for millennia: maguey, as well as we can taste some of the products obtained from it, such as the fermented called pulque

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

Head to Plaza de la República street corner with Calle Ponciano Arriaga, in the Seven Eleven store in front of the Mexico fronton will be picked up by the operator either by car or van

End point

Head to Plaza de la República street corner with Calle Ponciano Arriaga, in the Seven Eleven store in front of the Mexico fronton will be picked up by the operator either by car or van

Additional information

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Not recommended for children under 3 years

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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