Posts in Tag: Mexican archaeological sites
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Tula – Mysterious City of the Toltecs
We continue on our amazing Adventures Abroad journey through central Mexico with veteran guide Victor Romagnoli as our small group approaches the ruins of the ancient Toltec city of Tula. Our last stop was at Teotihuacan which more than lived up to its billing as one of the greatest pre-Columbian archaeological sites in the New […]
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Teotihuacan – Mexico’s Great Pre-Columbian City
In preparing for this post I reviewed about a dozen other websites to determine what was considered either the best or the most important tourist attraction in Mexico. The consensus came down quite strongly in favour of Teotihuacan among those sites that were mostly focused on history and culture and not on the hedonism of […]
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Mitla, Markets, Mezcal & the Mammoth Tule Tree
This is post number eleven from my recent tour of Central Mexico led by Adventures Abroad’s veteran guide Victor Romagnoli. Today we are going to visit Mitla, the ancient capital of the Zapotec culture that existed in central Oaxaca state for over a thousand years before being completely destroyed by the Spanish in the early 1500’s. […]
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Monte Alban – Zapotec Stronghold Above Oaxaca
This is my seventh post on a recent almost month long trip to the Central Highlands of Mexico with Canadian tour specialists Adventures Abroad. If you want to know more about Adventures Abroad and why you should consider their Central Mexico with Victor Romagnoli, read this post. This is also the first post on a destination outside […]