Overview & Highlights
Mexico, with its huge landscapes, offers a great road trip, travelling in a car with personal driver round the highland colonial cities and on to the Pacific coast.
- Explore Mexico City and experience its highlights
- Discover colourful colonial towns and cities
- Relax on the stunning Pacific coast
This road trip takes you on the rugged highland colonial-cities loop, and on to the Pacific coast. You travel in a private car with your own driver and of course your point-to point itinerary is planned out for you.
Northwest of Mexico City are crumpled ranges of gnarled, humpy but starkly beautiful hills. Here, and in the bountiful valleys of the Bajío, Spanish colonists built fortunes from the mining of precious metals, especially silver, and a necklace of prosperous towns sprung up which share a heritage of baroque churches, leafy squares and pastel-washed houses.
Each has its own character: the university town Guanajuato, built in a narrow gorge, is a centre for music, theatre and dance, while Morelia shows off some of the grandest monumental colonial architecture. Querétaro is renowned for its impressive colonial aqueduct.
Continue for some beach time at a luxurious and utterly romantic first class resort, La Casa que Canta, on the glorious sands of the Pacific coast at Zihuatanejo.
Outline itinerary
Day 1
Arrive in Mexico City. Transfer to your hotel.
Day 2
Guided tour of the city and Teotihuacán pyramids.
Day 3
By road to Guanajuato via Querétaro.
Day 4
At leisure in Guanajuato.
Day 5
By road to Morelia via Pátzcuaro, 2 nights.
Day 6
At leisure in the Morelia region.
Day 7
By road to Zihuatanejo on the Pacific coast.
Days 8-11
At leisure on the beach. Optional activities and water sports.
Day 12
Transfer to the airport, fly to Mexico City to connect with international flight home.
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Our first trip to S. America was a wonderful experience from start to finish. Everything was very well organised and we couldn't have had a better group leader than tour leader. The local guides were very knowledgable and enthusiastic to share their country. When we booked this holiday we thought it would be our only trip to S. America, primarily to see Machu Picchu but now hearing the tour leader talk about other tours she has run we are eager to see more of the continent with JLA.
FM, Aberdeen
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Ben Line - Travel Expert
Ben fell in love with Latin America on a six month backpacking trip from Colombia to Mexico in 1995. Since then he has explored most of South America, including living in Peru for a year. He is now Head of Sales.
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