Mexico City Trip Overview
We will start this tour at Frida Khalo Museum – The Blue House, where Frida lived with Diego.
This tour continues at Coyoacan, one of the most emblematic towns of Mexico City, where you can enjoy a walking through this neighborhood, see some handicraft pieces and why not? enoy an icecream or coffe from other states of the country.
Next, you will visit the Anahuacalli museum, wich served as a studio to Diego Rivera and shows a great collection of prehispanic art pieces.
Then we will enjoy a tour at Xochimilco by a colorful boat or “trajinera” (1 hour of rental cost included) to cross the canals. Along the way, visitors can eat, party with family or friends, sing with a mariachi or simply enjoy the beautiful scenery. There are few things in Mexico City as traditional and unique as this one.
Last, but not least, we will be visiting the biggest university campus from the whole country – UNAM. The central campus was declared world heritage site and you will see why.
Additional Info
Duration: 8 to 10 hours
Starts: Mexico City, Mexico
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Mexico City, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, Mexico
We will start this tour at Frida Khalo Museum – The Blue House, where Frida lived with Diego.
This tour continues at Coyoacan, one of the most emblematic towns of Mexico City, where you can enjoy a walking through this neighborhood, see some handicraft pieces and why not? enoy an icecream or coffe from other states of the country.
Next, you will visit the Anahuacalli museum, wich served as a studio to Diego Rivera and shows a great collection of prehispanic art pieces.
Then we will enjoy a tour at Xochimilco by a colorful boat or “trajinera” (1 hour of rental cost included) to cross the canals. Along the way, visitors can eat, party with family or friends, sing with a mariachi or simply enjoy the beautiful scenery. There are few things in Mexico City as traditional and unique as this one.
Last, but not least, we will be visiting the biggest university campus from the whole country – UNAM. The central campus was declared world heritage site and you will see why.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Coyoacán, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Tour Coyoacán in the morning with a good coffee and feel the tranquility and magic of its environment, walk it at noon or in the afternoon and observe its artistic and popular color, or go back at night and enjoy its sounds, its music, of the exclusivity of its corners, the charm of its streets, alleys and emblematic sites, surrounded by viceregal houses, cultural centers, restaurants, bookstores, galleries and craft houses.
Visiting this place when traveling to Mexico City is a must, as it houses some of the most important museums in the city and the country, and you can also try very good food, walk through its incredible streets, its square and enjoy folklore Mexican.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Museo Frida Kahlo, Calle Londres 247 Col. Del Carmen, Mexico City 04100 Mexico
When one deepens the knowledge of Frida Kahlo’s work and has the privilege of knowing his home, one discovers the intense relationship that exists between Frida, his work and his house. His creative universe is in the Blue House, where he was born and died. Although when he married Diego Rivera he lived in different places in Mexico City and abroad, Frida always returned to his house in Coyoacán.
Located in one of the most beautiful and oldest neighborhoods in Mexico City, the Blue House was converted into a museum in 1958, four years after the painter’s death. Today it is one of the busiest museums in the Mexican capital.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Calle Positos 47, Guanajuato 36000 Mexico
The Diego Rivera-Anahuacalli Museum is an exceptional place for its architecture, design and construction. It is built with the same volcanic stone on which it is raised. It was designed by Diego Rivera with the purpose of hosting his collection of pre-Hispanic art pieces. It was also planned as a City of the Arts, a space that integrates painting, dance, music, theater, crafts and ecology. For this, the central square was conceived as an open-air theater, which gives access to a gallery, a gallery and the museum itself. The building reveals the influence of Teotihuacan and Mayan cultures, in combination with contemporary building elements. It also has a large ecological space, which protects the flora and fauna of the area.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: UNAM Biblioteca central, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City 04510 Mexico
One of the most beautiful shelters of our capital city, offers extraordinary places and places, outdoor spaces, museums, theaters, concerts and a large number of art pieces, cultural and recreational activities of all kinds, in addition to the possibility to explore and enjoy.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Xochimilco, Xochimilco, Mexico City, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast
Xochimilco are chinampas, trajineras, museums, flower and plant markets, parishes, parks and forests. The Xochimilco canals and the traditional chinampa cultivation system are Cultural Heritage of Humanity. More than 200 colorful trajineras leave from its ten piers to cross the canals, whose routes reach the chinampas or the Island of the Dolls. Along the way, visitors can eat, party with family or friends, sing with a mariachi or simply enjoy the beautiful scenery. There are few things in Mexico City as traditional as this one.
Duration: 2 hours
