Mexico City & Teotihuacan: 6-Night Central Mexico Tour

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Free cancellation

1/19

Duration7d

GroupUp to 50

LanguagesEN · ES

PickupAt your hotel

Six Days Across Central Mexico's Ruins, Colonial Towns & Mountain Silver

You spend six nights in a Mexico City hotel of your choice, with airport transfers included both ways. Your days move through Teotihuacan's pyramids, the Basilica of Guadalupe, Xochimilco's floating gardens, Coyoacán's colonial quarter, Taxco's silver streets, Cuernavaca's palaces, and Puebla's convents and ceramics—each with a local English or Spanish-speaking guide. Lunch is built into the Cuernavaca-Taxco and Puebla-Cholula days, and the Turibus hop-on hop-off ticket gives you a full day to navigate Mexico City on your own schedule.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Arrival and hotel transfer

Arrival transfer to hotel

Day 2 — Mexico City hop-on hop-off tour

Travel aboard Turibus
Visit up to 21 stops
Optional second tour stop at Cibeles Fountain
Return to hotel

Day 3 — Teotihuacan and Guadalupe Shrine

Visit Square of the Three Cultures
Explore Teotihuacan Pyramids
Visit arts and crafts center
Visit Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Day 4 — Xochimilco and Coyoacan visit

Breakfast in Xochimilco
Ride Aztec boat in Xochimilco
Visit colonial district of Coyoacan
See Saint John The Baptist church paintings

Day 5 — Cuernavaca and Taxco tour

Panoramic tour of Cuernavaca
Visit Cathedral and Palace of Cortes
Travel to Taxco in Sierra Madre
Visit Santa Prisca church and cobblestone streets
See silver artwork in Taxco
Return to hotel

Day 6 — Puebla and Cholula exploration

Travel to Huejotzingo
Visit San Miguel monastery
Continue to Puebla city
See Chapel of Rosary and Convent of Santa Monica
Visit Onyx and Talavera factories
See Puebla cathedral
Visit San Pedro Cholula

Day 7 — Departure transfer to airport

Transfer from hotel to airport

The Experience

The Turibus ticket lands in your hand on day two and you realize you're not just getting a bus ride—you've got 21 stops across Mexico City, and you can hop off whenever something catches you. That's the rhythm of this 6-night tour: structured days that move you through the region's heaviest historical weight, then pockets of time to stand still and look. Your first morning is the airport transfer to your hotel; that evening, the city is yours to find. By day three you're standing at Teotihuacan watching the Pyramid of the Sun rise above the Avenue of the Dead, then crossing back into Mexico City to kneel at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where the light hits the dome and the space fills with something you didn't expect to feel in a church.

The tour moves you through five full days of sites that don't sit next to each other on a map. Day four takes you to Xochimilco—a UNESCO World Heritage site where you board an Aztec-style boat and drift through canals that predate the Spanish conquest—then into the colonial mansions and sixteenth-century churches of Coyoacán. Your guide (English or Spanish-speaking, depending on your group) walks you through the logic of how these places connect: the water systems, the trade routes, the way power moved through the valley. On day five you drive into the Sierra Madre toward Taxco, the silver capital, where the cobblestone streets climb so steeply you feel the altitude, and the Baroque church of Santa Prisca sits at the top like something that took centuries to place just right. Lunch is included. The same day you loop through Cuernavaca—the city of eternal spring—to see the Palace of Cortés and the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

Day six lands you in Puebla and the small town of Huejotzitlán, where the Monastery of San Miguel sits as one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. Puebla itself is dense with detail: the Chapel of the Rosary, the Convent of Santa Monica, ceramic factories where Talavera and onyx pieces are still made by hand, and the cathedral in the main square that dominates the skyline. If your tour falls on a Sunday, Monday, Wednesday or Friday, this day becomes free time in Mexico City instead—the itinerary shifts based on availability. Your final morning is the transfer back to Benito Juárez International Airport. The tour allows two standard suitcases per person; oversized luggage needs approval from the operator before you travel.

What’s included

Six nights' accommodation in your selected Mexico City hotel.
round-trip shared transfer from Benito Juárez International Airport to your hotel.
Turibus hop-on hop-off day ticket with 21 stops across Mexico City.
local English or Spanish-speaking guide for all excursions.
lunch on the Cuernavaca-Taxco day and the Puebla-Cholula day.
entry to Teotihuacan archaeological zone, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Xochimilco boat ride, Coyoacán colonial district, Taxco's Santa Prisca church, Cuernavaca's Palace of Cortés and cathedral, Huejotzitlán Monastery of San Miguel, Puebla's Chapel of the Rosary, Convent of Santa Monica, and cathedral.

Good to know

Easy physical level

Operated by Mexitours

Is this one for you?Choose this tour if you want to see Central Mexico's major archaeological and colonial sites without arranging your own transport, hotels or guide—the fixed itinerary and included transfers mean you move through five regions in six days without the logistics falling on you.