How to get out Guadalajara
Tequila - great for tequila tasting experience. Drive or take a bus. The bus costs about $9-12USD round trip and about 1.5 hrs each way. It is beautiful countryside. For a memorable weekend day trip, take the Tequila Express --- it's a fun atmosphere with tequila shots and roving mariachis crooning you all the way to Tequila. The train leaves Saturday and Sunday mornings at 10am from the Guadalajara train station, returning the same evening. Jose Cuervo distillery has a packaged tour that will pick you from your hotel, take you to an agave farm, then to the distillery, show you around the distillery, give you samples, take you to their galleria and offer a free margarita and 10% off at a restaurant. The city is quaint and worth exploring.
Lake Chapala, with its picturesque towns like Ajijic.
Guachimontones, site of a small pre-hispanic pyramid.
Mazamitla, a picturesque town in Los Altos south of Lake Chapala.
Tapalpa a great mountain town near Cd Guzman, offers hotel and cabana like rooms for a nice weekend retreat
San Juan de los Lagos, second most visited pilgrimage site in Mexico after La Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City.
Places further away include Puerto Vallarta, Bolañas, an indigenous huichol community, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes and Colima.
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The Most Frequently Asked Travel Questions about Guadalajara
