If I hadn´t seen it, it would be difficult to believe that in the XXI century and in the middle of Mexico City this impressive place exists. This is a must destination for both, locals and foreigners.
Here is a link where you can find the information, price and even make a reservation for this tour.
It was founded in the 1300s and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987
Xochimilco means a thousand words of flowers or land planted with flowers in Nahuatl.
The trees you see are ahuejotes, indispensable to fix the sludge that forms the chinampas and barriers that protect the crops because this area is still for farmers and of course, tourism too.
You can bring your food and drinks or consume what the trajineras that travel through the canals offer you with food, drinks and complete meals to the sound of the marimba and mariachi that cross while you tour the canals.
In addition to the individual trajinera rides, you can hire the collective, and tour the channels full of color for the flowers, decoration of the trajineras, music, snacks and crafts that circulate through the channels. What you see as land is actually not, these are chinampas or very fertile floating orchards that were built with a technique from the Xochimilcas since the fourteenth century.
There are herons, ducks, axolotls...
A large collection of trajineras to choose from:
The prices are displayed in different points in view of the public as well as available on the internet.
The area is full of nurseries and markets of ornamental plants, ideal place to stock your garden. Here is the reference of the largest plant market in Latin America:
Do not miss it and if you already know it, come back!
The photographs used are of my authorship.
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