Tonala and Tlaquepaque Cultural Tour: Explore Mexico's History and Artisan Craftsmanship

In this journey, you’ll garner knowledge about Mexico’s history and culture through its handicrafts. We will pay visits to two towns renowned for their artisans and pottery, all under the guidance of a tour leader who will provide valuable information to make your tour as delightful as possible.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Guadalajara Cathedral - We begin our tour by seeing from the vehicle some of the monuments that Guadalajara have in their main avenues.
  • Tonala Craft Market - Continue with a relax walk trhu the shopping galeries of the artisans, quarry stone carvers, blown glass, pottery, furniture and many others.
  • La Casa Historica de Tlaquepaque - The…
What's Included
  • Bottled water
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
Location
12 de Diciembre 3070
12 de Diciembre
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Frankdownunder
Jul 27, 2024
A Good Way to Explore a Massive Artisan Market and Street Sculptures - With this group tour, by bus, we first visited selected sites of Guadalajara before heading to Tonalá. We ended up with a group from the US, pretty much everyone was a Spanish speaker, but the guide switched between Spanish and English to accommodate everyone. In Tonalá, the street with sculptures was interesting. The highlights of the tour have been well chosen, and the free time both in Tonalá and Tlaquepaque was useful. In Tonalá, we walked through the biggest artisan market I have ever seen anywhere in the world. In Tlaquepaque, we had our photo taken with a man holding a tequila glass and wearing a professional face paint from a western comic, showing facial expressions at the level of a professional actor—some of the best shots we had during our stay in Mexico! We had a lunch in a restaurant with a live female band, fantastic decorations, and the hottest chilli.
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X8179yqgabrielc
Jan 3, 2024
Excellent place - Excellent place to buy crafts and typical food. It is a good walk, you will walk a lot in a very fun and entertaining way. You will find a lot of crafts at a good price
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792junem
Jun 11, 2023
Entertaining and informative day trip - Our favorite part of Tonola was the beautiful and unusual art work and the great shopping experience! Tlaquepaque had very nice shops and restaurants and the food was amazing! We would highly recommend this trip to anyone visiting the Guadalajara area.
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Mddeblaere
Jan 9, 2023
Excellent - Beautiful area as well as a into to the culture, arts and talents of many of the locals. Let alone the food was delicious
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Jbills2007
Aug 23, 2022
Tonala and Tlaquepaque Cultural Tour - We took this tour to get an overview of the Tonala and Tlaquepaque shopping areas. The van was nice with AC and there were only 6 people on the tour. Unfortunately, it was very rainy when we were in Tonala and we didn't do much shopping. The guide did take us to a glass blowing factory. In Tlaquepaque, he walked us up the main shopping street, showed us where to have lunch, and where to meet the bus in 3 hours. Rather than being a tour, this was more of a taxi service to the two areas. We were not sure that is was really worth the $57.00 per person. We went back to Tlaquepaque two days later. Our hotel called a taxi for us ($6.00 US for 4 riders) and the driver dropped us off and we did more shopping. We took an Uber back to the hotel.
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