Native Trails MyTrails 2026 114 Ciudad de México 1 Taquería El Califa de León Duration: 01:00 h · Price: $$ The Michelin-starred Taquería El Califa de León is a long-standing family business in the San Rafael district and only offers standing room for a few guests who can enjoy the unique tacos at the counter. The menu includes four types of taco with beef or pork and two different sauces, because chef Arturo Rivera Martínez focuses more on the quality of the ingredients and the resulting taste experience. The corn tortillas are hand-made and freshly prepared. The award-winning Gaonero taco is made with thinly sliced fillet of beef, seasoned only with salt and a little lime juice – an extraordinary creation that rightly deserves a star. 2 Restaurant Limosneros Duration: 02:00 h · Price: $$$ Several years ago, the owners of the Café de Tacuba opened the Limosneros just a few steps from the Chamber of Deputies. This gourmet restaurant, beautifully appointed in modern Mexican style, has fast gained a reputation of being one of the best in town. The choice is not easy given the rich menu – should it be chicken with walnut and Puebla chili sauce or does the scale tip to spareribs with agave syrup? However you decide, do not forget to leave some room, because the selection of ice creams is also highly recommended. 3 Restaurant Café de Tacuba Duration: 01:30 h · Price: $$ The Café de Tacuba restaurant was inaugurated in 1912 in the heart of Mexico City near the Plaza de la Constitución and is now part of the traditional gastronomy of Mexico City. Enjoy the typical Mexican home cuisine in cosy atmosphere. Whether you are savoring the stuffed chili, the Pambachitos, the Panuchos or a Torta de Enchilada, the restaurant will not disappoint you. For dessert we recommend a hot chocolate “estilo Tacuba”. 59 Visit of the archaeological site of Cuicuilco Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Easy Cuicuilco, which was settled already about 3,000 years ago, is an important reference point in the preurban phase of Mesoamerican civilizations. It is the place, for instance, where the first known statue of the fire god, who was venerated for many centuries, was discovered – as well as indications of the first steps to the Mesoamerican calendar systems. The importance of the place can be grasped when you look at the pieces exhibited in the local museum, but particularly when you see the circular pyramid, an enormous platform of some 150 m (165 yds.) diameter. Climbing it, you get an overview of the entire archaeological zone and of parts of the megalopolis of Mexico City. 60 Visit of the floating gardens of Xochimilco Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy Xochimilco is a district in the south of Mexico City and known for its floating gardens that the Aztecs created on Lake Texcoco to supply victuals to its capital. The channels of the “Huertos Flotantes” have a total length of more than 150 km (90 miles). The gardens were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 and are popular with both the inhabitants of Mexico City and tourists. On a small boat tour you get to know the gardens. 61 Visit to the Chinampas of Xochimilco Duration: 04:00 h · Level: Medium Visit the project from RITA (Red Indígena de Turismo de Mexico, A.C.) project, which is aiming to revive the “chinampas” in Xochimilco. Hardly anyone understands the significance of the floating gardens as a vegetable and flower garden and important lungs of Mexico City. Experience close up everything about the various development stages of the “chinampas,” their fortification by plants of the willow family and the cultivation of the fertile “floating fields”. In the small research center of the indigenous community, we will marvel at the axolotl (a caudate of the mole salamander family) which is worshipped by the Aztecs and which is now threatened with extinction due to the introduction of the tilapia.
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