Mexico Soul and Essence
Festivals
For every season in Mexico, there is a celebration whose main focus is the cuisine and rituals of that place and time. Join with the people and communities who celebrate and preserve their culinary traditions.
We can organize for you a special visit to Local Festivals as:
- Feria del Tamal, Enero
- Feria del Amaranto y el Olivo, January-February
- Fiesta del Maíz y la Tortilla en Santiago Tepalcatlalpan, Xochimilco, Julio
- Feria del Chile en Nogada en Puebla, August
- Feria de la Enchilada, September
- Feria del Pulque en Tlaxcala, September
- Feria del Mole en San Pedro Atocpan, October
Or design your "non-tour" Routes to:
- Vanilla route in Veracruz, visiting Papantla, Los Tuxtlas and the Tajín ruins.
- Cacao-chocolate route in Oaxaca, where la Guelaguetza takes place in the last two Mondays in July, as one of the most important cultural events in the Mexican festival calendar, involving traditional music, dance, costume, craft, pageantry and gastronomy.
- Coffee in Coatepec and Teocelo
And we can plan a personal and or group trip to local celebrations:
Dia de Muertos, November 1-2, one of the Mexico's most famous celebrations in cementeries where the living remember their ancestors. We can share with you the Janitzio-Pátzcuaro experience.
Cultural Tours
Cultural - Stroll though Chapultepec Park and Castillo de Chapultepec, with stops at the Modern Art Museum, Rufino Tamayo Museum and the National Anthropology Museum. An alternate is the Centro Historic/ Zocalo with the National Palace and the Secretaria de Educacion Publica building, home of some of the most important murals of Diego Rivera, the Templo Mayor Museum, the Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, with the San Carlos School of Art - first school of art in the New Spain-, here leading Mexican artists have studied and taught.
Going a few streets west we visit the National Museum of Art, the Mudéjar architectural gem that is the Post Office building, Palacio de Bellas Artes (with its unique galleries and Tiffany curtain), Franz Mayer Museum and the Alameda Park. Other alternatives are walks through downtown Coyoacan and or Xochimilco.
Walking Tours
Tours - walking tours of Mexico City for a day or a week. -- Culinary-- Mercado a cocina --Market to Kitchen. Spend the day shopping for ingredients at a local market, learning about the foods that nourish the soul as well as the body. Then on to prepare the days menu under the guidance of professional chefs who will highlight the cultural origins of the ingredients. Markets to shop at: Mercado de La Merced, Tianguis del Martes in Condesa, Mercado de San Juan, Mercado de Coyoacan. With lesson and lunch at El Tajin. Kitchens to cook in Margarita de Salinas and Letty Alexander, some of the most prestigious chefs in Mexico. Restaurant Dining Adventures of Mexican prehispanic, traditional and nouvelle cuisine at Hostería de Santo Domingo, El Cardenal, Cantina La Opera, El Bajio, Izote, Pujol and others.
