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October 28 – November 2, 2023
$1,250 / $1,400 single supplement
Price includes 5 hotel nights in double-rooms, luxury ground transportation, museum admissions, guided visits, breakfasts, and other amenities. Airfare is not included.

Please note: Full refunds are available until August 15, 2023. After this date, 50% of ticket price will be refunded.

REFUNDS ARE NOT AVAILABLE AFTER SEPTEMBER 1.

This Day of the Dead, join us for a very special 6-day, 5-night trip to Mexico for our favorite holiday. We will visit macabre museums, the Sonora Witchcraft Market, the Island of the Dolls in Xochimilco, the Pyramids of Teotihuacan, the Main Cemetery at San Andrés Mixquic for Day of the Dead, and much more. Our tour leader will be Salvador Olguín, a Mexican writer and scholar who has focused much of his work on the visual culture of death in Mexico.

ITINERARY
Additional sites will be available to visit; some changes may apply.

Our journey will begin in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico on October 28. After dropping your luggage in your assigned double-room, you’ll have some time to explore the hotel’s surroundings before we kick off the tour with a group dinner at a nearby restaurant.

On October 29, we will visit one of the 170+ museums of Mexico City, break for lunch, and then pay a visit to the legendary Sonora Market, famed for its witchy handcrafts from numerous traditions.

On October 30, we will visit Xochimilco, a Unesco World Heritage Site, where we will embark in one of the canal’s iconic colorful boats to visit the legendary Isla de las Muñecas (Island of the Dolls), tied to local folk stories and traditions.

On Halloween morning, we will head out to Teotihuacán, another Unesco World Heritage site. It was the largest city in North America around 500 AD. Today, it is an archeological site, and home to one of the largest pyramids in the region. We will also make a stop at the phenomenal Museo Nacional del Virreinato, which houses the national collection of colonial art, to enjoy its incredible and often macabre collections.

On the afternoon of November 1—after some free time for exploring the Centro Histórico and a visit to the Museum of Mexican Medicine, housed in the historical Palace of the Inquisition—we will travel to the town of San Andrés Míxquic and enjoy the Alumbrada, a candle-lit Day of the Dead evening in a traditional cemetery not too far from Mexico City’s hustle and bustle.

November 2 will be the last day of our tour, and we will pay a special visit to the Museo Nacional de Antropología, a world-class museum that houses archeological objects from all across the Valley of Mexico and beyond.

There’s a lot more to see in Mexico City, or CDMX (Ciudad de México). We will provide you with tips, recommendations, and information, and you will have free time to explore on your own. Other places of interest include the now traditional Day of the Dead Parade; the Museo de la Tortura (Museum of Torture); the Templo Mayor Museum, which houses priceless Mesoamerican objects related to the ritualization of death in ancient times; the Templo de la Santa Muerte International located in Tultitlán;The Ciudadela artisan and popular arts market; historic buildings; the recently renovated Panteón de Dolores (Mexico’s largest cemetery); along with other old cemeteries, plazas, amazing food, and more!

Once registered, you will receive an emails containing interesting reading materials, links to virtual tours of some of the sites we will visit, and other tour updates.

TOUR LEADER

Salvador Olguín (Monterrey, 1979) is a Mexican writer and scholar who has focused much of his work on the visual culture of death in Mexico. He has published poetry, essays and other genres in print and online publications in Mexico, Spain, Brazil, the UK and the United States. He was a world music writer for MTV Iggy and Remezcla while he was based in Brooklyn, NY, during the late 00s and the early 2010s. He has a master’s degree in Humanities and Social Thought (NYU). His book La carabela portuguesa (The Portuguese Man O’War) received the Carmen Alardin National Poetry Award in Mexico. He currently lives in the Mayan Riviera.