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Teotihuacan. Live a great experience with an archaeologist
Descriptions come from the operator and are translated automatically.
- 6 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in Spanish
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
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.
Inclusions
What's included
- Tourist van with comfortable and reclining seats
- Access to the archaeological site
What's not
- Lunch
- Dinner
Itinerary
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- 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
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 15 travellers
- Operated by
- Arqueonáutica Turismo Cultural
- 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
How it compares in Mexico City
- Its from-price is 12% below the median of the 633 day trips we list in Mexico City.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Mexico City
Mexico City is a vast, high-altitude capital built over the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, rich in museums, murals, markets and outstanding food.
The Zócalo, one of the largest squares in the world, is framed by the Metropolitan Cathedral and the National Palace, where Diego Rivera's murals tell the story of Mexico. Beside them, the excavated Templo Mayor reveals the heart of the Aztec capital, and the Palacio de Bellas Artes, with its marble exterior and Art Deco interior, stands a short walk west.
Top-ranked sights in Mexico City: Teotihuacán, Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Frida Kahlo Museum (Museo Frida Kahlo).
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