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Paulf — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:14:53 +0000

With the 2 different guides, they both new the artisans in the villages. With each village having it's on trade, it made it easier for the villages to trade with each other. There was 1 village that is known for making furniture. Customers from Mexico and the US would bring in a picture and a exact copy of the piece/pieces of furniture in the picture would be made and shipped. We must of spent an hour going through the different furniture shops seeing everything. You have to get off the main road and go into the small villages.

tour company in Patzcuaro GUIAS Y TOURS PATZCUARO (reply)

frostbite — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:38:49 +0000

A few years ago, we took a tour of potteries in Michoacán offered by Traditions Mexico. Most enjoyable! The also offer tours in other parts of the country.

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Paulf — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:54:18 +0000

When doing the villages around the lake you really need a good guide who knows the villages and the artisans in the different villages. The best ones are not on the main highway but in the towns. You can get artifacts in the shops along the main highway. It was very interesting going to their studio that was part of their home on a side street. What was funny, on the way to our first village passed what looked like a Swiss Chalet on the right side of the road. On our way back to Patzquaro stopped there for a late lunch/early dinner. The food was really good and I had garlic fried fish from one of their ponds that you could pick your on.

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B&S — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 04:50:36 +0000

If your hotel recommends them it is a good chance they will be OK. You definitely want a guide for Day (Night) of the Dead. They will take you to several cemeteries in the area that you could not find on your own. Parking is impossible so the guide will drop you off and tell you he will meet you at that location at some agreed time. You will love the night tour -- absolutely amazing.

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JeffMN — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 18:03:31 +0000

My wife and I went up to Pátzcuaro for a couple of days last March. I'd highly recommend the guide who took us on the grand rounds of the lake and all its little villages and crafts centers. Jaime Hernández Balderas is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the area and its cultures. He speaks flawless English, but will engage you in Spanish if you wish.

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Paulf — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 16:01:30 +0000

A really great tour is a tour circling the lake visiting the small villages. Each village is known for a product. At the first village we stopped at, we went to a artisan's home where his studio is and Kathie bought a beautiful hand carved Madonna.
1 village is known for items made from palm leaves(example straw hats), another using reeds from the lake and the last one we visited was known for it's pottery- there is a site where a lost race was destroyed by the Spaniards. The villages around Patzquaro and off the toll road to Morelia is known for a trade. We had a wonderful that gave us the tour around the lake who returned to the State's. Our other guide worked out of a B&B in Morelia who knew the villages off the toll road.

tour company in Patzcuaro GUIAS Y TOURS PATZCUARO (reply)

frostbite — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:38:52 +0000

I haven't been to it myself, but I've heard that Day of the Dead is particularly spectacular in Oaxaca. Jane Robison, the owner of Casa Colonial gives tours.

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medicalmission — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:31:04 +0000

Has anyone heard of this company or have any recommendations
The company is GUIAS Y TOURS PATZCUARO
It was recommended by my hotel
I will be in Patzcuaro for day of the dead and am thinking about doing a tour for night of the dead