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Besides, Jair Gaxiola got in touch with [http://www.turismor.com.mx/ Turismor], a travel agency in Morelos, and got also a very good offering. I wrote most of this webpage unaware of his work, and it shows :-/ But still, read on.
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There is a third, cheaper but much less desirable option IMHO: Not to take this company's service, and just have the two guides INAH can give us - That would mean one guide per ''150''' people. That way, we would only pay for the transportation and the site entrance, a total of MX$21,000+MX$13,500=MX$34,500. There is a third, cheaper but much less desirable option IMHO: Not to take this company's service, and just have the two guides INAH can give us - That would mean one guide per ''150'' people. That way, we would only pay for the transportation and the site entrance, a total of MX$21,000+MX$13,500=MX$34,500.
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=== My reccomendation ===

With this numbers, I think we won't be able to cover it all as we originally planned. We will have to ask people to pay for the trip.


Ok, so we want the best possible daytrip in Morelos, right?

Where are we going to?

GunnarWolf has been in touch with the [http://www.inah.gob.mx/ National Institute for Anthropology and History], who are interested and willing to provide us with very good guiding to have a daytrip in [http://www.cnca.gob.mx/cnca/inah/zonarq/xochica.html Xochicalco], Morelos State's most important archeaological site.

Besides, Jair Gaxiola got in touch with [http://www.turismor.com.mx/ Turismor], a travel agency in Morelos, and got also a very good offering. I wrote most of this webpage unaware of his work, and it shows :-/ But still, read on.

Xochicalco is at ~90 minutes from Oaxtepec, but the INAH people strongly suggested me to plan for a 2hr trip. Based on our experience with the trip to Suomenlinna last year, I think we should not leave before 11:00 so all (well, most at least) of us are awake, and we would be back in Oaxtepec by ~19:00.

The trip will only include the visit to Xochicalco - We could visit other many worthy places, but such a long trip would probably be too tiresome for some. The Xochicalco visit takes +- three hours (plus +- 1hr for a lunch break - we should bring our own food and have a picnic as we did in Finland), so we will have a 8hr daytrip. We could of course add more places (i.e. beautiful village of [http://www.tepoz.com.mx/ Tepoztlán], with great and beautiful colonial buildings, and basically on the way to Xochicalco, ~20 minutes away from Oaxtepec), but it might be too tiring to add at least 1:30 hours.

Now, what is the codundrum we are facing?

Money.

First of all, a recent change in Mexico (because of the stupid amount of stupid people who were damaging archeological sites) requires that everybody pays their entrance to archeological sites, so we have a fixed cost of 45 pesos per person for entering the archeological site (MX$13500 if 300 people attend).

While INAH is essentially giving us the best guiding there for free, they don't have enough manpower to handle such a large group, and they don't handle themselves the logistics to get us there by bus. They suggest we hire the buses with the company they usually work with (but are not forcing us to do so). They only request the buses to have a microphone, so the guide can tell the group historical and geographical data on the road. Each group (40 people, 1 bus) will have one coordinator and one guide.

The complete package they are offering will cost around MX$11,500 per group - If 300 people go, that means 7.5 groups (lets say 7, as some of us can go by car), totalling MX$80,500+MX$13,500 = MX$94,000.

Erick Ivaan López got us a quote at MX$3000 per bus to go to Xochicalco and back. The buses have TV and audio, but I'm unsure if they include microphones - I think they do, but must get his word on this (have already mailed him requesting this information). If the company INAH recommends doesn't provide the buses, their services go down sharply, to around $3,500 per group, almost halving the total per group to MX$6500 per group - still a MX$45,500+MX$13,500=MX$59,000 total.

There is a third, cheaper but much less desirable option IMHO: Not to take this company's service, and just have the two guides INAH can give us - That would mean one guide per 150 people. That way, we would only pay for the transportation and the site entrance, a total of MX$21,000+MX$13,500=MX$34,500.

I strongly favor the second option, as it's definitively worthy to have the proper guidance so we understand what each important thing was and have a decent opportunity to ask them directly our doubts.

My reccomendation

With this numbers, I think we won't be able to cover it all as we originally planned. We will have to ask people to pay for the trip.


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