Silver
city day tour
Pick-up
time from the main lobby-hotel Acapulco area "A" at
6:00 a.m.
Pick-up time from the Mayan Palace and Acapulco Princess at 7:00
a.m
Trip lasts 3 hrs with 30 min. breakfast in the middle of the trip
Lunch included in Taxco, except drinks and tips.
We will come back in Acapulco around 20:00-21:00 the same day
Taxco
is a hidden city in the folds of a high mountain of the Sierra
Madre range of the state of Guerrero. It's a charming town of
vast, old, magic Mexico, and one of the oldest mining center in
Latin America, still in production.
Taxco
word is a phonetic adaptation of its original name -Nahuatl- ,"Tlachco"
means a place for playing ball, because the sound "tl"
was difficult for the Spaniards to pronounce. But Taxco is
very different from the old Indian city of Tlachco, the Pre-Hispanic
mining center.Taxco is exclusively from Spanish origin
and was found in 1529 by the Spaniards, at the foot of Atachi
Mountain, 1,800 meters above sea level, has a dry temperate clime
all year round.
We
will visit the splendid Santa Prisca church from baroque style,
who was constructed in 1758 by don Jose de la Borda a benefactor
of the epoch. Actually, the Santa Prisca church is a masterpiece
of the mexican viceregal architectural art.
We
will have time for a walking sight seeing tour of Taxco picturesque
cobblestone streets.
free time for shopping, have dinner or visiting on your own
Leaving time approx.16:30 to 17 hrs.