Xochimilco, Coyoacán & Frida Kahlo Museum

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Duration:10 hours (approx.)
Location: Mexico City, Central Mexico

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Enjoy some of Mexico City’s must-see spots with our ‘Colors of Mexico’ adventure.

Your day begins in Coyoacán, one of Mexico’s most influential cities. As you wander its tree-lined streets, you’ll learn how this city played a part in historical empires like the Aztec and Spanish.

Then visit la Casa Azul (if option selected), Frida Kahlo’s home and now museum. We’ll immerse ourselves in the trailblazing life of one of Mexico’s most original artists.

From the inspired art of Frida Kahlo, we’ll head to the eye-catching Xochimilco and board a trajinera - a colorful, gondola-like boat - for a ride through the neighborhood’s famous canals. As you indulge in local treats , your guide will share the incredible details of what makes this area a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Before finishing the tour, walk around North America's oldest university and admire its Central Campus, another World Heritage site.

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1. Coyoacan
Begin your full-day tour with a visit to Coyoacán, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mexico City, dating back to pre-Hispanic times. As you stroll the cobblestone streets and see 16-century mansions, learn about the history of this area and its colonial legacy from your knowledgeable guide. Listen to how the neighborhood turned into a cultural hotspot, attracting artists and intellectuals in great numbers.
2. Museo Frida Kahlo
Wrap up your Coyoacán visit at the Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as Casa Azul (Blue House). See where this world-renowned artist lived with her husband, Diego Rivera, and learn about her tumultuous life. During your hour of free time here, admire examples of her iconic work.
3. Xochimilco
Xochimilco is an agricultural area located 17 miles (28 km) south of Mexico City where many of the city’s flowers are grown. Back in Aztec times, this valley was once a lake. Learn how the local people, as a way around the lack of farmland, developed islands with floating reed mats loaded with soil and used them as gardens called chinampas. Today, these gardens are an ecological reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
4. Floating Gardens of Xochimilco
Board a colorful, flat-bottomed boat called a trajinera with your guide, and for an hour take a slow cruise on the chinampa channels, passing by floating gardens of flowers. As your boatman moves the vessel along by pulling a pole through the water, hear from your guide about the characteristic boats, originally hollowed from logs and once used for transportation throughout Mexico. Pass by other painted vessels transporting passengers and check out the boat vendors selling fresh food. Hungry? Taste a variety of dishes and drinks, such as mole, mixiote (barbequed meat), roasted corn, quesadillas, tacos, carnitas, pulque (milk-colored alcoholic beverage) and micheladas (Mexican beer-based cocktail). (Food and drink purchases are at your own expense.) Hear music like mariachi drifting from other boats, occupied by families and visitors celebrating birthdays, baptisms, weddings, or simply a good time.
5. Ciudad Universitaria
We going to appreciate the Juan O’gorman & Diego Rivera murals on the UNAM central library, this murals are an UNESCO World Heritage site.
6. Estadio Olimpico Universitario
Admire the Olimpic Stadium from the outside when arriving to University Campus

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Posted By : Otoniel_C
The false advertisement
This tour does not include the Frida khalo museum
Which is the reason I bought it.
Only to find out right before the activity that this tour doesn't include the Frida khalo museum.
When it was too late to cancel or do anything about it.

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Posted On : 2024-01-08 13:01:57

Posted By : gideonp2024
Busy but above all very fun day and great explanation from the team (7-1-24). we enjoyed it! Thans a lot! Gino&Bruno
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Posted On : 2024-01-07 20:38:59

Posted By : O7443MVmp
Lily, Tomas and Elisar were excellent tour guides. Coyoacan was the best part of the tour. I wish we had more time to spend there. The church here is one of the most beautiful I’ve seen. Xochimilco trajinera was very touristy and just a party boat ride with many vendors. I’d skip that adventure next time. I was hoping to get more information on the trajinera but that is not how the tour is designed. Sadly, we learned nothing about this place. Frida Kahlo museum was sold out.

While I don’t regret the experience, it’s not a repeat.
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Posted On : 2024-01-07 18:54:49

Posted By : EDITH A
Great experience! Very organized and informative. Lili, our guide, was extremely kind and took her time, making it memorable.
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Posted On : 2024-01-07 18:46:27

Posted By : guadaluperS7241XM
The tour guides were amazing. Eleazar was very informative and had so much information to share. He made this trip very meaningful and special. Lili was very attentive and provided us with tips, reminders, information, and a smile throughout the trip. Our driver Tomas was very friendly and professional. We felt very safe and are looking forward to booking other tours!
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Posted On : 2024-01-07 18:45:27

Posted By : Explore597510
Great trip with Salazar, Lilliana, and Thomas. So many places to visit and good communication with visiting guests. The guides were extremely helpful and courteous.
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Posted On : 2024-01-07 18:44:26

Posted By : 713edenl
Very informative and interesting tour. Our guide, Salvador, explained the details very well. We had a short food tour as well in Coyoacan. He gave us free time to explore Mercado 89. Our driver, David, drove safely.
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Posted On : 2024-01-05 18:40:46

Posted By : Michael_L
Very very touristy and if that's your think it was great. First stop was too an "artist" engraver, but it was really just to sell you a room full of chachkas. 2nd stop was the canal trip, soso and the mariachi band although performing made my daughter feel uncomfortable with their sexual innuendo. Lunch was probably the worst meal we had in Mexico City in our entire 8 days. The murals at the university were interesting and then there was the hurry up and wait for the Frida Kahlo which is why I assume 90% of people took the tour. I would highly recommend ubering directly from there to home saving you quite a bit of time.

The next time I am there and want to see Frida's home, I will just order tickets well in advance or pay someone to wait on line for me.
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Posted On : 2024-01-05 18:37:33

Posted By : 185vivekp
To be honest, I thought this one was going to be fun.

The problem is we signed up for the English tour - but when it came time to board the buses they put us on the "bilingual" tour bus (due to lack of space on the English one). This wouldn't have been an issue, except that:

1) the tour guide did the Spanish explanations in large chunks about things that were outside the bus at the time, so when she got to the English explanations there wasn't that visual context anymore

2) about half the time, the tour guide didn't even do the explanations in English. And if we can't understand them, that's like half the value of the the tour.
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Posted On : 2024-01-05 14:32:40

Posted By : Neeta_P
It was a good experience, especially the boat ride at Xochimilco. The only negative was an unnecessary stop at a souvenir store in the city that took up quite some time. Wasn’t expecting that.
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Posted On : 2024-01-05 00:31:24