A family friendly tour!

From Mazatlan, this tour heads south on Highway 15.  Your first stop will be a brick yard, where bricks have been made by hand for hundreds of years.  Traveling further south, you'll head east on Highway 40 toward the Sierra Madre Mountains to the small town of Malpica.  Here you will see beautiful floor tiles made in a 100-year old tile press, visit a bakery for pastries cooked in an oven of brick and mud, tour a colonial-style furniture factory, and meet artisans making red clay roof tiles and pottery.

Next you are on your way to Concordia, a beautiful town founded in 1565 as Villa De San Sebastian.  Here you'll visit the historic church, city hall and main plaza, before continuing on to the highlight of your tour, Copala.

Copala was also founded in 1565, as a Spanish gold mining town.   This is a very traditional Mexican town, with cobblestone streets and colonial buildings.   Copala is a step back in time--electricity wasn't even introduced here until the 1980's.  Today it retains its old world charm, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. 

After lunch and a piece of banana coconut cream pie, you'll head back to port and civilization, leaving the past behind.

This tour also includes a shorter version of the City Tour.

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