Located just a few hours drive away from major cities like San Luis Potosi and Ciudad de Valles, La Huasteca Potosina is a vast area - 20,000 square miles -so remote and off the grid that most visitors traveling through Mexico (and even locals themselves!) 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 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. 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
You do NOT need to be extremely fit for this week's activities, but you should enjoy the water, and know how to swim, and like to walk, and have done some recent hiking. At sunset, one evening will will hike an hour on a paved trail with switchbacks up a hill and into the jungle to the largest known natural cave shaft in the world (over 180 ft wide at the top, and a 1,214 ft. drop from the top ledge). There, we will see thousands of parrots and swifts return to the cave to spend the night. It would be good to have no knee or ankle problems. A sense of adventure is important, too.
From our base near the village of Xilitla for three nights, we'll 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. His great friend, the surreal artist, Leonora Carrington, visited here often, and we will visit her museum. 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 "civilization at the end of the week, and arrive at our inn in Tlaquepaque April 25 for one night, and say adios! the next morning.
Price: $1795 USD. Includes all ground transportation, all lodging (double occupancy), some meals, professional guides, all entrance fees, tolls. Single Supplement: $400 usd. Not included: airfare, tips, some meals. Space is limited.
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