Day 1, Arrival in Mexico City

Your personal guide will pick you up at the airport, or at the bus station and bring you and your luggage safely to your hotel. After your arrival you will be invited to a welcome cocktail with your personal Enkidu guide in a bar in a beautiful 16^th century building, where you will be given your “Enkidu survival kit for Mexico City”, and a general orientation about the stay and you have an opportunity to get acquainted with your guide.

Day 2, Exploring the surroundings

At noon, your personal guide will take you on a panoramic walking tour through the streets of the city centre. On this tour you will get an opportunity to explore the remnants of Aztec Mexico Tenochtitlan and the colonial Mexico City. We will visit the Zócalo, centre of the country’s polítical and religious life; the 16^th century cathedral, Palacio Nacional, and Templo Mayor, the main temple and the centre of the Aztec imperial state cult when the Spaniards arrived. 

Late lunch at Generalito, a pleasant and bright centrally located gay restaurant, offering typical Mexican food. After lunch, the guide will take you to Palacio de Bellas Artes and thereafter to Zona Rosa where most gay places are located. This night, you will get an introduction to the gay scene of Mexico City and the most important gay bars and discothèques so you will know your way around later during the stay. Entrance fees and the first beer is included in the first 2 places we visit. The evening tour can also be extended to a visit to gay bathing houses, saunas, sex clubs or other places with cruising and action.

Day 3, An archaeological site

After breakfast your personal guide will pick you up, and take you on a day tour to one of the several archeological sites surrounding Mexico City: Teotihuacan, Malinalco, Tula or Xochicalco. Details for each site can be found on our daytour page, and will also be provided by the guide during the welcome cocktail when you will be given a short introduction to each site. Malinalco is particularly beautiful and one of the few sites that visitors can explore peacefully for themselves, being almost alone, without the crowds in for instance Teotihuacan. Lunch in the area of the site will be included. Free evening, your guide will give you a detailed orientation on events and activities in the city that night and will provide tickets and reservations if desired.

Day 4, Museum of Anthropology

Morning free, lunch with your personal guide in an authentic Mexican restaurant, and in the afternoon, a visit to the world famous Museum of Anthropology, a world class museum and one of the most important in the Americas. Free evening, your guide will give you a detailed orientation on events and activities in the city that night and will provide tickets and reservations if desired. 

Day 5, Xochimilco

After breakfast, we will go to Xochimilco by public transportation, subway, train and microbus. Our service for the day includes traditional Mexican lunch in beautiful Xochimilco, steeped in mystery and romance – “The Land where Flowers Grow” in the Nahuatl language-. We will visit its Mercado de flores y frutas (Fruits and Flowers Market), its XVI Century Main Church, constructed as a fortress, and take a trip in the local "canoas". Xochimilco is called the Mexican Venice because of its famous water-channels dating from pre-colonial times and we will have lunch aboard in the canoa. The visit to Xochimilco also includes a visit to a local and highly traditional pulquería where you can taste the ancient refreshing Mexican beverage pulque, which has been produced in the area since before the Aztecs came.

Day 6, Shopping and Gay History

After breakfast your personal guide will take you on a highly fascinating and sometimes really adventurous explorations of some of the traditional and typical markets of Mexico City; Sonora, Merced and/or Tepito as well as the modern shopping mall Santa Fe. The Sonora market is particularly exiting, providing everything you need for witchcraft of all kinds as well as herbs and mixtures used in traditional Mexican medicine as well as exotic [and sometimes illegaly traded] wildlife... On our way between the different markets, the guide will take you to a couple of interesting spots for the history of homosexuality in Mexico where you will hear about same sex relations in pre-Hispanic and colonial Mexico.

Day 7, City Exploration and Departure

You will be requested to leave your hotel between 11 and 12. Enkidu will take care of your luggage and bring it to the airport so you are free to enjoy your last day in the city. Before your departure, you will meet with your personal guide again for a farewell cocktail in a convenient place.

If 10 or 14 days are booked, the tour will also include a visit to one additional archaeological site, and a guided walk through the charming, colonial streets of Coyoacan with a visit to Frida Kahlo’s home. If 14 days are booked, we will include a trip to the beautiful colonial city of Puebla (with the archaeological zone at Cholula) and/or Cuernavaca, the city of eternal spring where we also may spend one night at your wish.)

[Exploring Mexico City ]