Mini Travel Guide: Tequila
chapter two
Tequila
Hello! Welcome back to La Carishina!
I hope you liked my previous post about Guadalajara. As you may already know I am doing an entire series on Mexico Family Travel, and today is time for the second city: Tequila (The town!) Santiago de Tequila. This will be a short guide, since I spent little time there, I hope I stayed longer, but thats for the next time!
MINI TRAVEL GUIDE: TEQUILA
I was very surprised when my friend Pablo suggested me to go to Tequila. I answered: “ Wait, there is a town called Tequila?!”. Indeed like Champagne in France. The famous fermented distilled drink got its name after a town that is a world heritage site in the picturesque state of Jalisco, Mexico. Tequila can certainly be used in a movie set. It is the home to world reknowned Tequila houses: Jose Cuervo, Herradura and Sauza among its most famous ones. We managed to take a trip on a weekday, Tuesday. Although the most popular trips take happen during the weekend. Especially for the folks who will want to take advantage of night tour via train! if you are traveling with friends and not children, I will highly recommend you to take this type of trip on the weekends. You need to make reservations ahead of time for this.
Recommended tours: Cuervo Express - Herradura - Casa Sauza
In the case there is a schedule conflict with train rides or these are not an option for your budget, uber drivers will take you to Tequila from Guadalajara. This was our singular option given the trains are mostly available Thursdays - Fridays and these usually take a “atardecer” (dusk) tour which usually leaves Guadalajara after 5pm and returns to the town until the “amanecer” (dawn) for a partying all-night-long!
However “Amanecer” trips are most convenient for families and people who will enjoy taking a day trip and explore the city instead of partying it up! With my 4 year old, we had to make it a family affair and we took a dawn trip. The usually start at 11am and end around 2 pm with a lunch at the Distillery houses. We took our trip with Casa Sauza, which included a tour to their Agave plantations which they call their “botanical garden”. There, we learned the process of planting and harvesting Agave. After that, we were driven to the distillery “La Perseverancia” which has been producing tequila since 1873. This house boasts the recognition of being the first company who exported Tequila into the United States.
So that is it for this mini travel guide. What will you do in Tequila? I'm dying to know! Let me know in the comments below, I definetly want to go back for the "atardecer" train tour! Also, keep an eye on the next travel guide of the series! Im covering Mexico City, and boy is that a long beautiful post!