Acapulco

Educational Activities

Watch the best show in Acapulco at La Quebrada, where native high-cliff divers risk their lives in the most amazing display of bravery. Your knowledgeable tour guide will tell you about the different sectors you will pass through on the way to see the dives and will share with you all there is to know about this unmissable show. You will watch 5 divers jumping from different heights, including one from the topmost cliff, standing at 136-feet high.  Your guide knows the best spots to watch the diving so you don't miss a thing. Enjoy a drink as you watch the show. When the show is over, head back to either your hotel or the cruise ship terminal from where you started.

Explore the mangrove swamps and abundant bird life of Tres Palos Lagoon on a tour from Acapulco. Following a pick-up and transfer from your hotel, discover a lagoon that is 3 times the size of the Bay of Acapulco. Experience the flora and fauna of the lagoon by motorboat and then purify your skin by enjoying the application of a mud mask loaded with minerals from the area. Next, taste the famous fish specialties of the region with a traditional fish carving at a typical restaurant on the coast. Continue to a tortugeuro (turtle) farm to help release the turtles back into the sea. Then transfer back to Acapulco for the end of the tour services.

Once on board, you will head to the older part of town, driving all along the main avenue as your guide will thoroughly be sharing with you all there is to know about this iconic show. If you come to Acapulco and you do not see the divers, you did not come to Acapulco. Learn about how this great spectacle was originated. You will be able to see at least 5 divers jumping from different heights and at least one from the top of a 136 feet (~41 meters) high cliff, the others will be doing the dive from different altitudes. Your knowledgeable guide will personally show you where you can see the show better. Whenever the show is over, your guide will head back to the hotel or your cruise ship terminal where you started.

For pre-Hispanic societies myths held the keys to the endless repetition of cycles, and whoever had command of them was able to give guidance to the community in terms of issues as important as birth, puberty, adulthood and death, as well as of all the rituals that sealed the agreement with the deities. This petroglyph shows in three different panels the involvement of people in community celebrations in order to procure the attention and aids of the gods. People are show dancing and praying. Individuals from various kinship groups are differentiated from one another by lines that represent the link to their forefathers. The Mercado Municipal is really an eye-opener! You had never been in a real, large, Mexican market before, and you will find it fascinating. There is so much to see—dry goods, housewares, gorgeous flowers, candy, live roosters, fresh produce…. Many stalls featured health care products, which were a combination of herbal remedies and Santeria-type spells and prayers to saints. One of these stalls had a cage full of large live bugs, whose purpose You will prefer not to ask about.  Of all the places you visit on this trip to Acapulco, you will be glad to have seen the Mercado. 

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