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Mexico – Top things to do in 3 weeks

Mexico City

  • La Catedral Metropolitana
  • Palacio Bellas Artes
  • Zócalo
  • Plaza de la constitución
  • Palacio Nacional
  • Templo Mayor and the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlán (next to the city center)
  • El Angel de la independencia
  • Monumento a la revolución
  • Estatua a Colón
  • Avenida pase de la reforma
  • Basilica de la vigen de Guadalupe
  • Polanco Neighborhood
  • Bosque de Chapultepec and Castel (National history museum)
  • Monumento a los niños heroes
  • Museo Nacional de Antropologia
  • Lucha (mexican fights)
  • Frida Kahlo Museum
  • Coyoacán neightborhood
  • Xochimilco (boats)
  • La Mexicana park
  • Turibus (Most of Mexico attractions from a open bus. Lot of traffic, not worth it)
  • Teotihuacan (day excursion)
  • Road trip:
    • Queretaro
    • La peña de Bernal
    • Tequisquiapan
    • San miguel de ayende
    • Guanajuato
    • Morelia
    • Tlalpujahua & Santa Village

Zihuatanejo

Acapulco

  • Beach

Ixtapa

Cancún and the Mayan Riviera

  • Merida
  • Chichen Itza
  • Valladolid
    • Suytun Cenote – next to valladolid
  • Tulum
    • Tulum ruins
    • Snorkel with Tourtles and Manta rays
    • Beach (full of sargasso)
    • Cenote Dos Ojos (Entrance fee: $150 pesos )
    • Gran Cenote (Entrance fee: $120 pesos)
    • Cenote Casa Tortuga (4 cenotes, 2 caves and 2 open. Entrance fee: $600 pesos, discounted $300 pesos). Lots of Mosquitoes!
      • Cenote Campana
      • Cenote Wisho
      • Cenote Jaguar
      • Cenote Tres Zapotes
  • Playa del Carmen – Ugly city
    • Dolphin arch
    • Beach (full of sargasso)
    • Shopping strett
    • Xcaret Park (Nice performance about mexico, cenotes, culture, etc)
    • Cenote Azul (Entrance fee: $70 pesos) 
    • Chaak Tun (Entrance fee: $240 pesos) 
  • Cozumel
    • Playa Mia (free entrance)
    • Rent motorbike and explore the island (400 pesos)
      • Est side full of sargasso
      • West side very clean
    • Snorkel in Palancar, Cielo, Cielito
    • Dolphin discovery
      • Doplhing experience
        • Encounter: Basic interaction with a dolphin from the platform
        • Swim Adventure: Encounter + swim carried by a dolphin’s lateral fins + a dolphin will push you with a bodyboard
        • Royal Swim VIP: Encounter + swim carried by a dolphin’s back fin + 2 dolphins will push you from the feat until you stand
      • Touch a Manatee
      • Sea Lion show
      • Entrance to Chankaanab park
      • Buffet whole day
      • Transport back to the city center
    • Chankaanab park (a very nice park full of corals and fishes)
    • View the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
    • Punta Sur Ecological Park (Closed in Sundays :()
    • Beach club
      • Playa San Juan
      • Playa San Francisco
      • Playa Santa Rosa
    • Visit the ruins of the island (Closed in Sundays :()
    • Dive
      • Palancar Reef
  • Cancun
    • Beach
    • Hotels streap
    • Mercado 28
    • Cancun Underwater Museum
    • Las Coloradas
  • Isla Mujeres
    • Snorkel next to playa del Norte
    • Playa del Norte (One of the best beaches in the world)
    • Playa Tiburón (Beach club where you can take pictures of a shark) – Quite a sad and bad place
    • Wale sharks tour
  • Palenque
  • Coba

Oaxaca

  • Hierve el Agua

Huatulco

Puerto Vallarta

Cabo San Lucas & San Jose del Cabo & Los Cabos Corridor

  • Playa del Amor
  • San Ignacio Lagoon (Wales not possible to see them in July – August)
  • El Arco

Chihuahua

  • Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon)

Chiapas

  • Agua Azul

Jalisco

  • Tequila

Mexico Tourist Attractions

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