Posts in Tag: pre-Columbian Mexico
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Michoacan – Morelia, Tzintzuntzan & Patzcuaro
We are coming to the end of the second week of what has so far been an amazing historical, cultural and gastronomical tour through central Mexico with Adventures Abroad’s veteran guide Victor Romagnoli. Today we left the city of Guanajuato which I described in my last post as the most unexpected and pleasant surprise of […]
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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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Cholula – The World’s Largest Pyramid (Really!)
This morning on our continuing tour of Central Mexico with Adventures Abroad guide extraordinaire Victor Romagnoli we visited the amazing murals of Cacaxtla. This afternoon we are moving on to the nearby city of San Pedro Cholula where we will visit another astounding pre-Columbian sight, the Great Pyramid of Cholula which is the largest in the […]