Tour to Campeche

The tour departs at 08:00. It will take a fifty minute drive to arrive to our first stop: the typical town of Bécal. This town is famous for its original hand make panama hats. The procedure to do a fine panama hat is very complicated and it requires a lot of patience and dedication, it takes one month to a skilled person to do one first quality hat. At this town we will have the chance to meet one family that is dedicated to the hat production, a member of the family will explain us the procedure to do a panama hat, why it is very difficult to do it and why the hats from that town are considered the best. After visiting the town we will continue to Campeche, another Cultural Heritage of the world. Campeche was founded by the Spaniards in 1541 and it has been the most important port for the Yucatán Peninsula since then. The principal attractive of Campeche is its very well preserved downtown, the walls that once defended it from the pirates attacks and many different fortresses that also helped in Campeche’s defense. Campeche is considered one of the jewels of colonial México, it has many traditions and it is famous for the gastronomy based on seafood and the mixture of European ingredients with the spicy ones original from the Yucatán. At Campeche we will visit the Cathedral, the walls, the fortresses, the San Miguel bastion, the San Francisco church, the San Román church with its miraculous black wooden Christ, the Sea gate and the Land gate. We will also have free time to lunch or to walk around the beautiful streets of the city. Expected length of the tour: ten hours.