Located just a few hours drive away from major cities like San Luis Potosi and Ciudad de Valles, La Huasteca Potosina is so remote and off the grid that most visitors traveling through Mexico have never even heard of it. We think it is one of the most beautiful yet most underrated and least visited areas in the entire country. It's a must-see for those who enjoy crowd-less places, lush green landscapes, and refreshing jungle waterfalls ~ nature lovers like us!!
Getting to such a remote place takes a little effort, and we'll make the best of it! We begin in the eclectic town of Tlaquepaque, Jalisco...just a 20 minute drive from the Guadalajara airport, but a very user-friendly place with lots of great restaurants, museums, galleries, and artisan shops ~ most of them on a pedestrian walkway that is great fun for people-watching. Our home-away-from-home will be one of the quaint inns nearby, where we'll return for one night following our adventure.
Our comfortable van will pick us up the next day and we'll travel to the historic city of San Luis Potosi for one night, with time to explore the town known for its 16th century buildings around the beautiful plaza.
The next day we'll be entering the La Huasteca Potosina area ~ full of waterfalls, hot springs, turquoise blue pools, rivers, and cenotes.
The next day we'll be entering the La Huasteca Potosina area ~ full of waterfalls, hot springs, turquoise blue pools, rivers, and cenotes.
We've planned to spend four full days exploring this wonderful region, and we've organized our adventure so we will be there mid-week, when there will be few visitors. Our local guide will not only take us to a couple places most people don't often see, but also take us to his home for traditional food!
There is so much to do here! A week of intense fun, most of it in a huge natural wonderland ~ we will get wet, swing from ropes over brilliant blue pools, float in lazy rivers, and early one morning we'll hike one hour in the dark up the mountains to a natural sinkhole where at dawn tens of thousands of brilliant green parrots emerge from their sleep! You will need to be fit for this week's activities, and have no balance issues, or fear of heights, no knee or ankle problems, and have a sense of adventure.
We will stay in the village of Xilitla two nights so that we'll be close to explore Las Pozas Garden, and other sites around it. The only surreal garden in Latin America, Las Pozas is where Scottish poet and artist, Sir Edward James, built his castle. Set in a rainforest, it features towering sculptures amid pools and waterfalls, and stairs that go nowhere....all unfinished, that is, they ascend without leading to any place, without having an imaginable purpose. This is coffee growing country and you can often smell roasting coffee throughout the village, which is sometimes ensconced in fog....a truly surreal experience, and one that we'll remember as we make our way back to our inn in Tlaquepaque for one night, February 17, and say adios! the next morning.
Price: $1895 USD. Includes all ground transportation, all lodging (double occupancy), some meals, professional guides, all entrance fees, tolls.
Not included: airfare, tips.
To reserve your space with a non-refundable $800 deposit, click on the green button below, which will take you to a secure site. Space is limited to 8 participants.
Not included: airfare, tips.
To reserve your space with a non-refundable $800 deposit, click on the green button below, which will take you to a secure site. Space is limited to 8 participants.