Mascota and Guachimontones Archaeological Zone Day Trip from Puerto Vallarta
Overview
Inclusions
- Breakfast
- Professional guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Walking tour of downtown Mascota
- A/C van or Sprinter
- Entry/Admission - Zona Arqueologica Teuchitlan o Guachimontones
What to expect
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Mascota, Mascota
Visit a typical mexican little town of the region and know about Mexican heritage.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Zona Arqueologica Teuchitlan o Guachimontones, Carretera Estatal 604 Guadalajara-San Marcos km 56, Teuchitlan 46762 Mexico
Know the spectacular conics pyramids.
Duration: 30 minutes
Additional information
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Please wear comfortable clothes and walking shoes
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Infants must sit on laps
- Infant seats available
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
- Gear/equipment sanitized between use
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- Regular temperature checks for staff
- Temperature checks for travelers upon arrival
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
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If you are into archaeology, this is a great tour. I was highly impressed with the local company as they found a way for me and my travel companion to do this tour without anyone else. I would have expected them to cancel, but apparently this is what they will do for customers. Awesome. The d...
If you are into archaeology, this is a great tour. I was highly impressed with the local company as they found a way for me and my travel companion to do this tour without anyone else. I would have expected them to cancel, but apparently this is what they will do for customers. Awesome. The drive is very very long. I had not understood that the site was closer to Guanajuato than Puerto Vallarta, but in the end I was very glad I went. I am committed to going to as many of the archaeological sites I can in Mexico.Jorge Novoa made this trip amazing and unforgettable. He was so knowledgeable about so many things, a true renaissance man, that the five hour drive there and back was a pleasure. He made sure we had many stops at places he knew intimately. He made sure if he didn't know an answer to one of our q...
Jorge Novoa made this trip amazing and unforgettable. He was so knowledgeable about so many things, a true renaissance man, that the five hour drive there and back was a pleasure. He made sure we had many stops at places he knew intimately. He made sure if he didn't know an answer to one of our questions, he found someone who did. Everywhere we went he made sure we were comfortable and he happily indulged my interest in plant identification with his extensive knowledge of local fauna. He even stopped the van so we could harvest a bit of sap from a rubber tree. From our experience with Jorge as our guide, I am happy to recommend this tour, and any tour by this company. They make you feel special while they seem to genuinely celebrate the beautiful place they live. Gracias and mahalo Jorge!This is a long drive winding through the mountains. It took us 14 hours even though our guide rushed us through the sites. The guide did not have any preplanned stop for lunch and we eventually did find an open restaurant. There were no snacks or water. Breakfast was a quesa dia with coffee a...
This is a long drive winding through the mountains. It took us 14 hours even though our guide rushed us through the sites. The guide did not have any preplanned stop for lunch and we eventually did find an open restaurant. There were no snacks or water. Breakfast was a quesa dia with coffee and fruit juice at a roadside shack. Nothing special, nothing wrong with it. We were picked up at 7:45 and got back to our hotel by 1030PM. This could have been a very interesting trip had the guide been more knowledgeable but in our case he was mostly a driver. A nice guy.When you decide to book this tour you need to know it will be all day long and a lot of it spent in a vehicle. With that caveat out of the way the tour is amazing! Our guide was incredibly knowledgeable and provided us many opportunities to stop and explore the small towns and culture. The main d...
When you decide to book this tour you need to know it will be all day long and a lot of it spent in a vehicle. With that caveat out of the way the tour is amazing! Our guide was incredibly knowledgeable and provided us many opportunities to stop and explore the small towns and culture. The main destination is of course the Aztec ruins, but we really enjoyed experiencing the towns and interacting with locals with translation help from our guide! Incredible experience!Good driver though we had trouble understanding his English at times. He was very considerate of needing a few additional bathroom breaks along the way. Mascota was a place we might visit in the future. Guachimontones was very good and the museum there was modern and it was nice that they ran a ...
Good driver though we had trouble understanding his English at times. He was very considerate of needing a few additional bathroom breaks along the way. Mascota was a place we might visit in the future. Guachimontones was very good and the museum there was modern and it was nice that they ran a movie in English. Our party of three agreed that it was worth the trip and no one we knew had been here before. Be ready that the drive is 6-7 hours each way depending on traffic; a driver picked us up on time at our hotel and we returned at almost 10pm. Seeing part of Mexico away from PV was good; we had visited the botanical gardens south of PV the day before, and this was a nice follow up.