Patzcuaro Private Tour

Pátzcuaro is considered the best Magical Town in México, with its cobbled streets and vernacular architecture, you'll experience a slow-paced and easy town surrounded by arts and handcrafts. On this tour, you will be in touch with the local culture, the natives that still live their costumes and traditions as well as the delicious gastronomy that identifies Michoacán. Not only will you visit Pátzcuaro, but also Janitzio, an island inside the Lake of Pátzcuaro, this lake so important for our ancestors and that is known as the Gate to Heaven, and you will learn why. You'll get a chance to walk around an archeological site unique in its style and the site for one of the few pre-hispanic empires in México. Pátzcuaro will make you fall in love.

This day tour will last 8-9 hrs. Departing from your hotel in Morelia at 10:00 am. - Our first spot will be Janitzio, we will take a boat from the pier and ride to the island where we'll have time to see how the locals live, see the shops and walk all the way up to the Morelos Monument and take panoramic views of the lake. - Then Pátzcuaro downtown, where we'll have a stroll around the city visiting the most iconic sites such as the basilica, the most ambitious project for a basilica, even bigger than St Peter in Vatican City. The house of Eleven Patios where artisans have their workshops and you will see techniques such as the perfilado, plates decorated in natural tints and gold leaves. - Next, we will go to Tzintzuntzan the Purepecha Empire Capital, with its Archeological site and church atrium, open chapel for natives and 500-century olive trees. - Finally, we will stop at Quiroga to taste the famous Carnitas, deep-fried pork native to this area and a must! We'll return to Morelia afterward.