Packages and Options

Riders have two options with different schedules from where to choose:
A) Hotel Royal Zona Rosa in Mexico City - Sunday at 8:00 Hrs. at hotel lobby.
B) Hotel Courtyard Marriot Toluca Airport - near Toluca International Airport - Sunday at 9:15 Hrs. at hotel lobby.
Return transfer arrives in Mexico City at approx 12 noon.

Day 1  Riders will be picked up at their hotels in Mexico City. Then transfer by car to Valle de Bravo, which will take approximately two and a half hours. After registering and getting set in one of the magnificent bedrooms in Finca Enyhe, you will get to know your mount and try your tack inside the arena. A delicious lunch will be served in the swimming pool terrace before getting mounted for a two hour ride to "Monte Alto" where you will be able to get to know the horse you will be riding with during the week. Come back to Finca Enyhe and enjoy the sunset with a margarita made with an old family recipe. Dinner will be served at 7:30 accompanied with delicious Chilean red or white wines. 



Day 2  Delious Mexican breakfast will be served early in the morning. Afterwards riders will mount on their horses and ride for three hours across agricultural valleys and forests with orchids until lunch time, which will be a picnic on the trail carried by one of our pack mules. After lunch riders can enjoy a short "Siesta" and be ready to ride for one more hour until you reach the 9,000 feet. The village of "Los Saucos" will appear behind the trees. Here the horses will overnight and riders will be taken by car to Finca Enyhe. The afternoon is free to relax in the swimming pool or take a walk to town. During dinnerguests wil be able to taste the excellent Mexican and International cuisine that comes out from the kitchen of Finca Enyhe and is accompanied with high quality Spanish Red or White Wines. After dinner, listen to a talk about Monarch Butterflies and prepare yourself for a wonderful experience that wil be awaiting for you next morning in the Butterfly Sanctuary.



Day 3  After breakfast, transfer by car to Los Saucos. Ride for approximately one hour and if it is the time of The Monarchs get ready to do some walking before reaching the Sanctuary. Spend some time experiencing the presence of these mysterious and wonderful butterflies in the Fir Tree Forest. Get ready to walk back to your horses and continue the ride until lunch time. Today, lunch will also be a picnic in the trail cooked on a fireplace. After lunch continue riding for two hours through evergreen meadows and valleys next to Rivers that hold Trout Farms and beautiful Ferns until you reach "Ranch la Compania". This ranch is one of the oldest ranches of the area where fighting cocks are bred as well as Quarter Horses. Guest can walk around it beautiful patios and gardens. Transfer back to Finca Enyhe by car where a refreshing margarita will be waiting for you in the swimming pool!



Day 4  After the car transfer to "Rancho la Compania" be ready to visit a private Zoo and ride by a couple of lakes that are part of the landscape of this Ranch. Continue riding until you are on the top of "La Sierra de Juan Luis" from which you will be able to begin admiring fantastic views that lay three thousand feet below and until your eyes permit you to see! Here you will feel a change in the temperature, as you will be riding next to the ridge where the hot wind from the "Tierra Caliente" warms this part of the mountain. Bromelias and orchids decorating magnificent Oak tress will become part of the views of on this day. Lunch is a picnic on the trail, this time set next to "El Penon", a huge rock formation standing alone and aside the chain of mountains. After lunch, continue riding to another big flat rock formation, "El Coloso", from here riders are able to see the different places they have vistited on this day's ride and part of what will be covered the following day without of course missing the incrediable site of "Los Tres Reyes". Ride through "El Manzano", a small agricutural valley and finish today's ride in "Cerro Gordo." The care will take you back to Finca where dinner will be, as well a four course meal based on a delicious mix of Mexican and International recipes.



Day 5  Upon arriving to "Cerro Gordo", your mount will be ready and eager to start today's ride. On this day ride throught magnificent "Vistas" and rock formations. You will be riding thousands of feet above "Zacazonapan" a town located in the "Tierra Caliente". Experience breathtaking views from the edge of the mountain chain. Todays lunch is served in another magnifient spot called "El Divisadero". That means a place from where you can see and feel like Hernan Cortes must have while riding through the Mexican countryside and high mountains, never ceasing to amaze what the land offers to its visitors. After lunch, riders will have the opportunity to see another incredable spot all what they have covered by horse in the past days and the route that is awaiting them for the following days! It is an incredible opportunity to really see all what a horse and rider can do in one week of riding! A breath taking descent to where the horses will be left on this day will always be remembered by our guests, including outstanding vistas of the lake and of "Atezcapan", the village that lies next to the ranch where the horses will overnight. Many peacocks will salute you on your way out by truck from "Rancho Calderones" to the lake shore, where a local boat will be waiting for the group to be transferred across the lake to the main deck in Valle de Bravo. This is a perfect moment for a picture and time to relax and enjoy the trip across the lake. From the boat you will be able to see "La Pena" another rock formation where the Aztecs came to make human sacrifices and which now a days is surrounded by outstanding weekend homes.



Day 6  Before meeting your mount you will cross the lake by boat. This also is a good time to mediate or enjoy this peaceful and quiet boat trip. On the otehr side of the lake the truck will be waiting for you to make a five minute transfer to where the horses slept. Today you will ride along the lake shore until you reach the dam. After crossing by the side of the dam you will continue riding for a couple of hours in what is know as "Tierra Caliente". This land is for what Mexico is generally known for: no forest or shade, just a vast of open valley, all planted and plowed like the olden days. The old Mexican style of working with no tractors or machinery just pairs of oxens, horses or donkeys plowing the land lead by a peasent and followed by his wife or daughter who manually plants one by one the corn seed, strawberries,potatoes and flower plants. Just about the time you are wondering when a tree shade will appear; the horses begin reaching the woods. Fresh wind begins to blow whilst pine and oak trees shade the path and finally a group of rocks set for a fireplace let the riders know lunch time has arrived! After lunch, continue riding for three more hours in a different type of forest, where lots of Spanish Moss hang from the trees. If the river is not too high and with a fast water, experience the exciting movement of crossing the big river! Arrive to San Gabriel Ixtla, a small village where the horses will overnight. This time riders will come back by car to the Finca through a different road.



Day 7  Today the ride is shorter, only half of a day. Riders will arrive to Finca Eyhne on their horses just in time to have lunch in one of the terrances of the property. You will ride through the main street of "San Fransico Mihualtepec." This is an authentic Mexican town where you will be able to see lots of things. See how local people live in their homes and see the housewives enjoy taking care of the many pots with flowers in their Veranda. Watch how the Butcher works and how the traditional "Barbacoa" or "Carnitas" are being cooked. These are traditional meals prepared only by men and where women do not participate in the cooking. They are only invited to eat. This is a "Macho Man" chore. See the fields with all sorts of different flowers: Paradise Flowers, Water Lili,Agapantus,Gladioles, etc. After leaving this interesting town, the biggest Ranch in the area will be visited. This is "Rancho Santa Rosa" where well kept forest, evergreen horse padocks and magnificent contemporary Mexican style homes are all set in harmony. If you are lucky, you will be able to see how the horses that are bred in this ranch are trained for show jumping. Arrive at 1:00 PM to Finca Enyhe just in time for lunch. Today there will be more time to visit the town and do more shopping or if you prefer, enjoy the facilities in the property and have a good and restoring Massage session in the comfort and privacy of your bedroom. At 7:30PM, host and guest will depart to town where a farewell dinner will be offered in a beautiful restaurant in one of the oldest Colonial buidings in town.
(NOT INCLUDED IN RATE - bring cash, they do not take credit cards)



Day 8:  Breakfast will be served a little later at 8:00 AM. Transfer back to Mexico City International Airport is at 9:00 AM. Estimate time of arrival to the airport is around 12:00 PM. 



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Because of its topographic profile, located in the middle part of the mountains that conform the "Sierra Madre Occidental", in the surroundings of Valle de Bravo you can find a great variety of microclimates. Starting form the 10,000 Ft. over sea level, where the mountain forest only have fir trees, coming down to an altitude where pines and oaks are mixed together in the forest, and continue descending to the 5,000 Ft. of altitude to find only the caducifolia jungle typical of the Mexican dry and hot lands. This variety of ecological steps allow the visitors to see during the same day different vegetations and ecosystems that usually cannot be found one close to the other.

The weather in the town of Valle de Bravo is almost perfect during all year round. Early in the morning it is fresh or sometimes a little cold, but as soon as the sun rises the temperature increases and becomes warm. During the day the wind blows and cools the atmosphere with a very comfortable temperature. Sometimes during the afternoon a short rain may fall but from November to May this doesn't usually occur. The nights are fresh enough to let you have a restoring sleep but you may need an additional blanket or, for the sake of romance, you might want to light the fireplace.

Mexico has the greatest variety of pine and oak trees in the world. More than seventy types of oaks and almost one hundred varieties of pines. Over sixty percent of them are endemic from Mexico (they only grow in this country). An incredible diversity of plant life is the most striking feature of Valle de Bravo. Lots of fruit trees grow in this area; the very well known avocado, orange, lime, lemon, mandarin, plum, apple, pear, peach, berries, and the most Mexican guava, cherimoya, guanabana, jicama, mamey, zapote and chayote. All of them grow together with the most exhilarating and colorful variety of flowers shading the paths and trails where the ride develops.