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Comandante Zhe’s Very Irregular Highly Unprofessional Amazing Mexican Adventure Tours: July - September 2011.
Señoras y Señores, all our non-fb-compliant friends! -- jokes aside, Comandante Zhe’s is back in business of taking you on amazing tours to Central Mexican Highlands from end of July to mid January. If you never heard of our travels/tours before, take a look at the albums (click an image below), fall in love with Mexico, and send me your questions.
--- Right now we are doing detailed planning for the first two tours - please email me for details or leave a comment. ---
We take people to places less travelled unspoiled by tourist hordes: beautiful sites, gorgeous colonial cities, unbelievable ghost towns that you’ve never heard of - places that you will most probably miss if you go on your own! We will be staying in hotels on old colonial squares full of character that are anything but faceless corporate bore. We will be sampling most delicious Mexican food in the restaurants overlooked by Lonely Planet & Rough Guide. We’ll see and explore cites and places that Mexicans love and come to visit but are neglected by foreign crowds. Finally, I’ll talk so much Mexican history that you’ll be able to pass Master exams in Latin American affairs.
The rates are very low indeed!!!
The next tour: Fri July 22 (arrival Sat July 23 is also fine) - Sun Jul 31.
September Tour: Fri Sep 23 (arrival Sat Sep 24 is also fine) - Sun Oct 2.
Our current itinerary includes:
• Several marvelous colonial towns. Some (likes of Guanajuato) seem to come from fairy tales. Others (likes of Queretaro) - from G.G. Marquez’s writings. For me, those are quintessential Mexico full of history, mystique and beauty -- places that make me come back to la Republica year after year. I won’t say more, I’ll leave room for surprises.
• Two important, amazing and very impressive pre-Hispanic -- and pre-Aztec for that matter - cites. Let me put it this way - while quite unlike each other, both are indeed mind-blowing.
• A “rural decay” of an out-of-the-way ghost town of Mineral de Pozos. Some say it is mysterious, some say it is full of wonders. I use the word “best” :)
• We will also spend two days visiting various neighborhoods of tremendous Mexico City. Centro Historico at Zocallo, ruins of the largest Aztec pyramid, Rivera’s murals, mariachi and pulce at Plaza Garibaldi, colonial Coyoacan with Frida Museum, Trotsky’s museum, Xocimilco floating gardens, few slams, and hip Condesa - well, I am actually not promising this all in 2 days ;) We’ll cover “the best and most according to Zhe” and I let you pick the rest as fits your own interests :)
• As of now, we plan a visit to a 450 meters high monolithic volcanic rock formation - third tallest of its kind in the world after Gibraltar Rock and Rio’s Sugarloaf -- for a hike. Folks liked it in July but it’s a real hike and a it is bit of a long way to get there -- so I may decide to substitute it with something new to keep things interesting:)
We are travelling by a small private air-conditioned bus. We really like the company from which we hire bus - very professional and super reliable, and out driver, Uncle Lucio, is both very helpful and plain entertainment in his own right.
And this is by a magnitude cheaper than renting a car!!
I will do historic context intro, will talk history on the bus, and will do a tour in each place we visit -- and then you’ll have free time to explore things and roam on your own at your own will (we will provide maps and lists of extra points of interest). I know I am not supposed to say this but I think I am an excellent Mexican tour guide :)))
We cover all the hotels and restaurants. Just a note: food is excellent and imaginative in Mexico; it has nothing to do whatsoever with all those Texan burritos and fajitas they push onto you in the States.
The cost is $135/day and will include our private bus, hotel, food, (and some alcohol), museums and cites admissions, all taxis, and of course guided tours. Gifts and tequila shots are your own responsibility :)
Airfare is separate. We can help you find and reserve tickets.
Señoras y Señores, all our non-fb-compliant friends! -- jokes aside, Comandante Zhe’s is back in business of taking you on amazing tours to Central Mexican Highlands from end of July to mid January. If you never heard of our travels/tours before, take a look at the albums (click an image below), fall in love with Mexico, and send me your questions.
--- Right now we are doing detailed planning for the first two tours - please email me for details or leave a comment. ---
We take people to places less travelled unspoiled by tourist hordes: beautiful sites, gorgeous colonial cities, unbelievable ghost towns that you’ve never heard of - places that you will most probably miss if you go on your own! We will be staying in hotels on old colonial squares full of character that are anything but faceless corporate bore. We will be sampling most delicious Mexican food in the restaurants overlooked by Lonely Planet & Rough Guide. We’ll see and explore cites and places that Mexicans love and come to visit but are neglected by foreign crowds. Finally, I’ll talk so much Mexican history that you’ll be able to pass Master exams in Latin American affairs.
The rates are very low indeed!!!
The next tour: Fri July 22 (arrival Sat July 23 is also fine) - Sun Jul 31.
September Tour: Fri Sep 23 (arrival Sat Sep 24 is also fine) - Sun Oct 2.
Our current itinerary includes:
• Several marvelous colonial towns. Some (likes of Guanajuato) seem to come from fairy tales. Others (likes of Queretaro) - from G.G. Marquez’s writings. For me, those are quintessential Mexico full of history, mystique and beauty -- places that make me come back to la Republica year after year. I won’t say more, I’ll leave room for surprises.
• Two important, amazing and very impressive pre-Hispanic -- and pre-Aztec for that matter - cites. Let me put it this way - while quite unlike each other, both are indeed mind-blowing.
• A “rural decay” of an out-of-the-way ghost town of Mineral de Pozos. Some say it is mysterious, some say it is full of wonders. I use the word “best” :)
• We will also spend two days visiting various neighborhoods of tremendous Mexico City. Centro Historico at Zocallo, ruins of the largest Aztec pyramid, Rivera’s murals, mariachi and pulce at Plaza Garibaldi, colonial Coyoacan with Frida Museum, Trotsky’s museum, Xocimilco floating gardens, few slams, and hip Condesa - well, I am actually not promising this all in 2 days ;) We’ll cover “the best and most according to Zhe” and I let you pick the rest as fits your own interests :)
• As of now, we plan a visit to a 450 meters high monolithic volcanic rock formation - third tallest of its kind in the world after Gibraltar Rock and Rio’s Sugarloaf -- for a hike. Folks liked it in July but it’s a real hike and a it is bit of a long way to get there -- so I may decide to substitute it with something new to keep things interesting:)
We are travelling by a small private air-conditioned bus. We really like the company from which we hire bus - very professional and super reliable, and out driver, Uncle Lucio, is both very helpful and plain entertainment in his own right.
And this is by a magnitude cheaper than renting a car!!
I will do historic context intro, will talk history on the bus, and will do a tour in each place we visit -- and then you’ll have free time to explore things and roam on your own at your own will (we will provide maps and lists of extra points of interest). I know I am not supposed to say this but I think I am an excellent Mexican tour guide :)))
We cover all the hotels and restaurants. Just a note: food is excellent and imaginative in Mexico; it has nothing to do whatsoever with all those Texan burritos and fajitas they push onto you in the States.
The cost is $135/day and will include our private bus, hotel, food, (and some alcohol), museums and cites admissions, all taxis, and of course guided tours. Gifts and tequila shots are your own responsibility :)
Airfare is separate. We can help you find and reserve tickets.