Olmec route 8 days private tour

The oldest and more mysterious culture Americas

In this tour, you will be following the path of a culture that began thousands of years before Christ. Olmec culture developed and lived along the Gulf Coast of Mexico in Tabasco and Veracruz State, southern states in Mexico.  What they left behind is simply astonishing.

The Olmec society lasted from about 1600 BCE to around 350 BCE, when environmental factors made their villages unlivable.

The Olmec are probably best known for the statues they carved: 20 ton stone heads quarried and carved to commemorate their rulers.

The name Olmec is an Aztec word meaning the rubber people; the Olmec made and traded rubber throughout Mesoamerica 

They are the culture that invented the use of the zero and the long count calendar, basis of the Maya calendar.

In this tour, we will see, Petroglyphs, archeology, giant monolith heads, do water sports in natural sites, taste and buy chocolate and vanilla thorough Morelos, Veracruz and Tabasco states.

Itinerary:

Day 1: Pick up at your hotel and arrival to Chalcatzingo, Morelos. (2 hours’ drive)

Day 2: After breakfast, we leave to Jalapa, Veracruz 

(3 hours’ drive), visit of the city and the archaeological museum. 

Day 3: Rafting in Jalcomulco, Veracruz (optional)

Day 4: Catemaco with a lunch stop of sea fruit in Boca del Río

Day 5: Visit to Nanciyaga or canoeing in Catemaco lake

Day 6: La Venta, archaeological site, Villahermosa, tabasco.

Day 7: La Venta Ecopark and Maya mural paintings in the Planetary Tabasco 2000.

Day 8: Flight back to Mexico city or your country,  or drive back to Mexico city with us.

Meeting Location and Tour Duration

Meeting location: your hotel 

End location: your hotel in Mexico city or airport in Villahermosa 

Duration: 8 days

Duration comment: 8 days as planned with a possible extension to two more days if you want to add two extra days: 1 in Mexico city and another in Puebla.

What´s included:

 Transportation in a minivan

Driver and car expenses.

Guide in English (German)

What´s extra:

Your hotel accommodation and accommodation for the guide.

Museum entry fees.

Rafting fees

restaurants

beverages

Number of people: 2

Note: If you are more than 2 ask for a bigger van quotation.