Our Tour:
 We went on a 2-week, fully escorted tour of many of the major archaeological sites
in Mexico. We went with the same company, Kuoni, that we toured China with
and this tour was up to their usual, excellent standard. Once again, it was very well organised by our escorts who did just about
everything for us again. There were two of them this time, as our group was larger, and one of them was the same escort we had on
the China tour! However, unlike the China tour where we picked up a different local guide in each city, we were accompanied by just
one guide in Mexico, who travelled with us. The tour would have been better, though, if the group had been split in two, each with
its own local guide, as 33 people were just too many to gather around one person and it was sometimes hard to hear what he was
saying (he also had an annoying habit of starting his narration before everyone had gathered around).
Our route on Kuoni's Mexican Panorama tour. Click on any of the pictures to view
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We know some of you liked the itinerary that we provided with our China trip report so we have done the same for this
tour. Click here to see our itinerary. We have also provided the usual map with our route marked
but this time it seemed appropriate to annotate some places with historical details and add some pictures.
Overall, this tour was less intensive than China but it was nonetheless fairly tiring as we still had to get up pretty
early every day. We did have more time to ourselves this time though as there was no evening entertainment arranged for us and
there were no group meals (which do tend to drag on). We also had the luxury of spending the final four days unwinding at the beach
after the tour was over.
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