Mexico
Taste of Mexico
10 days from £2,400 pp
Includes: accommodation, breakfast & most lunches, guides, transport, experiences & tours as per below
Overview & Highlights
Mexican food has long been staple fare in the high streets of the UK and the malls of the US. Tasty burritos, enchiladas, tacos and fajitas just the names are enough to make the mouth water!
Discover the complexity of flavours and exotic recipes of Mexican street cuisine, from markets to the end product on street stalls on Mexico City, Puebla and Oaxaca and get to know three of Mexico’s most evocative cities.
On this street food tour of Mexico, highlights include:
- Exploring the historic cities of Mexico City, Puebla & Oaxaca
- Experience the rich and unique food culture and all its regional variations
- Guided excursion to Teotihuacan pyramids and the Guadeloupe shrine
- Mexico City: Street food tour
- Puebla: Walking city tour and street food experience
- Oaxaca: Food market and cookery class
- Oaxaca: Guided street food tour with mezcal tasting
“One of the highlights of this trip is the market visit and cookery class in Oaxaca with a local cookery teacher using recipes passed down through the generations and staying in the traditional Casa Conzatti.”
In Mexico City you visit San Juan market, which caters not only for the casual shopper but also for some of the country’s best known chefs and restaurants, with a huge range of exotic ingredients including crocodile and wild boar. Move on into the streets of the older neighbourhoods to try local delicacies on the stalls lining the streets and markets.
Explore Puebla, home town of many of the most talented chefs, inspired by some extraordinary sweet and salty delicacies.
In mountain-based Oaxaca, you’ll go shopping with a local cook and learn how to prepare a four course meal featuring the town’s delicious gastronomy.
This trip combines mid-range hotels, colonial or modern in style with well-equipped rooms, private bathroom and heating/air-conditioning.
9 nights: Mexico City 4; Puebla 2; Oaxaca 3.
- Day 1: Transfer to your hotel in Mexico City on the central plaza.
- Day 2: Visit the San Juan market; a first taste of local delicacies
- Day 3: Guided excursion to pre-Hispanic Teotihuacán pyramids.
- Day 4: Visit a traditional neighbourhood to sample street food.
- Day 5: Travel to baroque Puebla, walking tour.
- Day 6: Sample local confections and savoury snacks.
- Day 7: By road to Oaxaca.
- Day 8: A day’s cookery course with Oaxacan specialities.
- Day 9: Visit neighbourhood markets; guided city tour.#
- Day 10: Fly back to Mexico City
This tailor made holiday is with a specialist tour operator who work closely with carefully selected local partners, some of whom they have worked with for over 30 years.
Contact me to combine this tour with other locations in Mexico or to create any other Latin America tailor made holiday.
A few impressions…
“We’ve wanted to go and see the Mayan ruins for a long time and finally got there. Uxmal, which, though far less known, was our favourite site and the pyramid is taller than Chichen Itza! Plus other Mayan sites, time in the jungle and finally on to a Caribbean beach. Lovely holiday to Mexico, thanks again Jules for your hard work making it happen”.
Jenny & David S
Let us begin the journey that will create memories to last a lifetime.
