Silver City of Taxco: Full Day Tour from Mexico City
Description
Taxco is the heart of Mexico's silver and one of Mexico's Pueblos Mágicos "Magic Towns". It is a small city, with narrow, cobbled stone streets and full of silver jewelty workshops. On the way to Taxco we will stop by the City of Eternal Spring, Cuernavaca, visiting its colonial cathedral and 16th century murals. This full day tour will combine a guided tour, giving you all the history and facts about the city, with free time for you to explore the city and check out the jewelry in the afternoon.
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Itinerary
Taxco's 18th century Baroque style church is a true piece of architectural beauty. Our guide will tell you all about the history of the church and the interesting alter pieces housed inside it
Famous for its beautiful weather, Cuernavaca is a pretty colonial city just outside of Mexico's capital. We will visit Hernán Cortes's palace and the city's cathedral with its murals dating back to the 16th century.
We will take you to one of Taxco's famous silver workshops to see how they make their iconic jewelry. Whilst there, we will also have a Tequila and Mezcal tasting to get your taste buds firing!
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We do pick ups in airbnb's inside pickup area.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Dress code is smart casual
Reviews(30)
The tour was to be in English and we were the only English speakers The guide Rodrigo was excellent and the sights and his knowledge was excellent For a 12 hour tour it would be nice to converse with the other travlers
It was fine. You’ll benefit if you understand Spanish, although the guide is certainly better in Eng than I am with Esp. Getting out of the city provided great perspective on modern Mexico, but I was looking for more culture, history, and time to explore. The group’s time was mainly spent in 2 guide-selected silver shops, a guide-selected restaurant with spectacular view, and snoozing in the van. We had about 30 min free time in Taxco to descend to the meeting point.
If you like to silver; this tour is for you. Also some gorgeous views of the mountains and hill tops. Great shopping. I bought a few pieces. The guide and driver did an excellent job.
Juan and Marcos were great the entirety of our tour together. Marcos provided insightful information and made sure to keep us safe when we're in the city. Our driver was excellent in this very long trip as well.
My only complaint is that the tour should include a rest stop on the way back to Mexico City. The ride was over 3 hours.
Angela was a fantastic guide! She brought plenty of knowledge and experience to our tour. We could talk about lots of different aspects of life in Mexico and her understanding of Mexican history was great! She brought water for us. I particularly wanted to shop for high end silver jewelry and she helped me accomplish my mission! It was a beautiful drive over to Cuernavaca and Taxco - lovely day trip!
The trip from CDMX is way too long we spent almost 8 hrs in the car and although TAXCO is very beautiful the street are flooded with cars which makes it scary to walk around. Had I known it was so far away I would have not booked this trip
Terrible The Van in which we were traveling was not in a good condition. Has to wait 1 hour for a new car to arrive. We deserved one more hour in Taxco for the wait, and did not get that. Tour to Cuernavaca is not worth it either. Taxco is beautiful, we needed more time there.
Great service. Nice tourist guide who explains really well. It was a private tour. If you visit Mexico you’ll love visiting Taxco and Cuernavaca.
Our tour guide Francisco and Hector gaves us a thru explanation of the city of Taxco. Taxco is just a magical Pueblo with beauty everywhere.
