itinerary (summer 2007)

Travel to Cuernavaca
Brief Cuernavaca Orientation
Arrive at Host Family's Home

Chalma Excursion (Pilgrimage Site)
Museo Brady (Latin American Folk Art)
Walking tour of central Cuernavaca

Taxco Excursion (Mexico's silver capital)
Cathedral tour in Cuernavaca

Morning Spanish Class
Mexican sociocultural milieu presentation
Meet w/ health/human services social workers
Cortez Palace Museum
Borda Gardens

Morning Spanish Class
Xochicalco Excursion (Pyramids/Ruins)

Morning Spanish Class
Nuestros Pequeños Excursion (orphanage)

Morning Spanish Class
Casa Tatic (Bilingual School/Indigenous Services)
Tepotzlan Excursion (Small village/pyramid site)

Morning Spanish Class
Natural Medicine Museum, Ethno-Botanical Garden
Travel to the City of Puebla

Visit Cholula (site of largest pyramid in new world)
Travel to Cuetzalan from Puebla
Valadores ("flying dancers") exhibition

Cuetzalan orientation
Attend Indigenous Mass
Shop Cuetzalan Market
Yohualichan Excursion (pyramid/ruins site)
Presentation by on bilingual education (Nahuatl/Spanish)

Presentations on Women's Cooperative
Visit CAMI-program/center for abused women
Visit Juzgado Indigenous
San Miguel Tzinacapan Excursion
Comida with indigenous families
San Miguel Tour with Youth Tourism Cooperative
Workshops on artensenia & globo-making
Slide show on San Miguel life and fiestas

San Miguel Tzinacapan Day Trip
Visit local schools
Visit with curandero (traditional healer)
Comida with indigenous families
Visit with former regional director of Christian Children's Fund in her home

Visit local hospital (with traditional medicine ward)
Visit community radio station (broadcasts in Nahuatl)
Visit Waterfalls & Swim
Explore local caves
Shop
Dinner & Fiesta with local band

Depart Cuetzalan
Visit Teotihuacan (Sun & Moon Pyramid site)
Arrive in Mexico City
Visit Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe

Visit US Embassy
Tour Cathedral
Visit Templo Mayor,
Tour Presidential Palace (Diego Rivera Murals)
Tour Fine Arts Museum
Experience La Zona Rosa (?)

Tour Chapultepac Park & Anthropology museum
Tour Frida Kahlo & Trotsky Museums
Shop/Explore Coyoacan Markets
Closing Dinner & Fiesta

Balet Folklorico de Mexico (? optional ?)
Return to US