15 days from £1,301 Mexico is a big country with a huge variety of landscapes, climates and traditions. There are deserts, mountains and jungles revealing the vestiges of the Aztec and Mayan empires: magnificent ruined pyramids and temples, as well as graceful colonial towns and a timeless indigenous life in the villages and markets. All this makes for an enticing holiday: we've put together some of the highlights in just a fortnight's richly rewarding holiday.
We've chosen our favourite places, excursions and hotels, all of which have been enthusiastically enjoyed by our clients. Here, you have a choice of standard and superior options. Our benchmarks are high: a 'standard' option doesn't mean low quality or dull, and 'superior' can sometimes be both really good value and quite luxurious.
You can view these options and, if you are happy with them, we welcome you to make a booking request online. But as with all our tailor-made holidays they are flexible: if you'd like to tweak the trip a bit, perhaps choose different hotels, or add in an extra place or visit or excursion, please contact us and one of our specialist consultants will help you come up with your perfect holiday. Suggested Holiday ItineraryDay 1: Arrive Mexico City, 3 nights.
Day 2: Excursion to Teotihuacán and the Basilica of Guadalupe.
Day 3: City tour including the Museum of Anthropology.
Day 4: Fly to Oaxaca, 3n.
Day 5: Excursion to Monte Albán.
Day 6: At leisure in Oaxaca.
Day 7: Fly to Mérida, 2n.
Day 8: Visit Uxmal and Kabah.
Day 9: Drive to Chichén Itzá, overnight.
Day 10: Drive to the Caribbean Riviera Maya, 4n.
Day 11: At leisure on the beach at Playa del Carmen.
Day 12: At leisure on the beach.
Day 13: At leisure on the beach.
Day 14: Transfer to Cancún airport.
The price quoted above excludes the cost of international flights. If you choose to book your holiday online, you have the option of including flights, the cost of which will be added to your holiday itinerary. View detailed itinerary >> Our Comment
Journey Latin America tour leader Peter Noyce shares his ideas for how best to spend a couple of days in Oaxaca.
48 hours in Oaxaca. Something different or a bit extra
Perhaps would like to add another destination or experience; at the beginning, middle or end of the trip, or maybe substitute one highlight for another. Below are just a couple of many popular options. Please contact us direct if you'd like to make any changes
- Visit the artists' colonies at colonial Cuernavaca and the cobbled silver town of Taxco.
- Visit Puebla, a city with a remarkable colonial core not far from the capital. Stay at the ultramodern Hotel Purificadora, a work of art in itself, showing how the old blends with the new in Mexico. Travel on to Tlaxcala, a rosy town allied to Spain during the war of Independence, thereafter sidetracked and unspoilt.
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