Private tour in Mexico City Erika Z
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Hi, I’m Erika and I'd love to introduce you to the history of my country. I’m a Certified Tourist Guide by the Mexican Ministry of Tourism; so I’d be glad to guide you through a tour in Mexico City. I’d love to accompany you visiting different places in this big city, such as the historical Downtown area, plus the most important museums or archaeological sites, in order to assist you with getting acquainted and understanding the ancient and modern Mexican history. For example, helping you gain notions about the different cultures that lived here a long time ago, which left a tangible and intangible heritage, such as pyramids and other forms of architecture, art, music, food, and so on. I’m really passionate about Mexican history. Since I was a little girl, I had a great interest about cultures from all across the world. Reading a few books, I quickly realized that Mexico was rich in culture and heritage. This ignited a spark in me, and I decided to study archaeology, as well as art history some time later, and further along, also museology, all in renowned Universities in Mexico. Learning more became a necessity for me, not only to understand the history of my country, but also to understand my own history, to understand myself. So, I’m really eager to share said acquired knowledge with you. As an Archaeologist, I have worked in government institutions for almost 20 years, and I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating in different archaeological projects with Mexican and foreign specialists, making explorations in important cities in Mexico studying different aspects, such as cave art, rock art & iconography. I have been a Tour Guide for half a decade too, and I’ve had beautiful experiences with people from different countries. I even established a beautiful friendship with some of them so far! I decided to impart Mexican culture and information because it’s very important for me to contribute to children’s education in Mexico, as well as to ensure foreign visitors acquire a different perception about Mexicans and our country. I’m a friendly person, and I truly enjoy meeting people and talking about our personal experiences. I would certainly like to hear about yours as well! Therefore, I want to invite you to engage in a different experience with me: learning while also having some fun. P.S. If you have a request for a special tour, just let me know!
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On this tour, you will see original objects created by people before the Spanish Conquest of this territory in 1521. All of them were either found by archaeologists in several explorations in Mexico, or recovered after being confiscated by looters. We will visit the museum which houses the biggest archaeological collection in the country, distributed in different halls inside a modern building, which is one of the most beautiful in Mexico. We will cover many aspects of Mesoamerican cultures such as where they lived, what they ate, how they looked like and the different clothes they wore. We will also discuss the different tools they designed, such as the creation of a written and numerical system, and the techniques they used to build their homes. As an archaeologist, I’m going to explain the most relevant cultural aspects of these societies, for example their different religions. In a short span of 3 hours, I will help you learn about the cultures that Mexicans inherited from the past.
Once in the museum, we will visit four halls, with chronological orientation, in order to understand the different processes and changes reached by each society, from sedentary to monumental cities: -We'll start in the Preclassic Hall where we'll see how people began a sedentary lifestyle 2500 years before this era, thanks to agriculture. -Then we’ll visit Teotihuacan Hall where we'll dive into a cosmopolitan city with monumental pyramids, whose residents economically influenced many cultures in the first millennial of this era. -Next, we'll visit the Mayan Hall, with one of the most interesting and important cultures in Mexico, which had cities built in the jungle, and citizens who created a hieroglyphic writing system & a vigesimal numerical system. -Finally, we'll enter Mexica Hall, which showcases the society conquered by the Spanish army in 1521. Here, we'll see how this became the strongest society just 200 years before the European invasion; and was then destroyed by Hernan Cortes.
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Transportation is not required.
s/n Avenida Paseo de la Reforma, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, 11560, Mexico
We shall meet at the main entrance of National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.
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