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La Sierra Cavalcade
"LA SIERRA CAVALCADE" is a deluxe horseback riding vacation, first class riding holiday, all included, one-week horse-trek offered to people who would like to discover Mexico on a horse. The cavalcade takes place in Valle de Bravo, a town two and a half hours west of Mexico City, on the Sierra Madre Occidental. The town is located 6,000 feet above sea level and during the trek riders go with their horses up over 10,000 feet where fir trees grow and where the Monarch Butterflies come to look for shelter from November to March of each year. The different altitudes create a variety of microclimates where you can find thriving examples of cold and warm climate species. The slopping terrain allows to easily go from one microclimate to another; riders will have the opportunity of seeing all what grows around fir trees down to sugar cane fields during the cavalcade.
A weather as the one Valle de Bravo has is hard to find anywhere in the world. Winter is warm and sunny during the day but cool enough at nights to enjoy a chimney in the wonderful "FINCA ENYHE". Autumn and spring are almost the same, with glorious clear blue skies and refreshed verdant countryside. Some beautiful clouds may be formed by mid-day and a rain may fall down for a couple of hours but again the sun will be shining, creating a magnificent sunset with orange and purple-pink clouds mixing together.
Mexico has the greatest variety of pine and oak trees in the world; more than a hundred different types of oaks and almost one hundred and fifty types of pines. Over seventy percent of them are endemic of 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, chirimoya, guanábana, jícama, mamey, zapote, and chayote. All of them together with the most exhilarating and colorful variety of flowers shade the paths and tracks where the cavalcade develops.
"LA SIERRA CAVALCADE" maintains and trains a group of different types of horses from which Trakhenners, Thoroughbreds, Quarters, Appendix, and Criollo horses can be found; all of them in perfect conditions to work in the different types of terrain found in this cavalcade. Most of all the horses are between 15-17 hands of height and have temperaments from very calm and quiet to quite spirited. Western, English and Charro tack is available. The Mexican Charro tack is similar to the western mainly being the difference on a bigger horn and wider seat.
The great variety of flavors of the Mexican kitchen is offered to the guests with hygienic procedures and the homemade food gives them the opportunity to taste different dishes every day. Breakfast includes fresh fruit or juice, egg dishes, sweetbreads, coffee, tea, or milk. Lunch is a picnic on the trail after three hours riding it includes fresh fruits, Mexican tortas and tacos, and a variety of cheeses, meats, cold sodas, or beers brought along by a pack-mule that also provides horse-shoes, first aid kit, medicines for the horses, and all what might be needed during the cavalcade. Having eaten and rested, riders ride for two or three hours more. Horses stay for the night out in the woods attended by the grooms and the riders are taken back by car to "FINCA ENYHE" to enjoy a spectacular sunset and a delicious Mexican meal. During dinner a wide variety of traditional Mexican dishes are served accompanied by sodas, coffee, or tea, beer and wine are also available.
A Monarch Butterfly reserve is visited during some of the cavalcades; the butterflies, seeking for warm weather, arrive in November and leave in March. Riders can see them hanging by the millions on the fir trees. This is considered one of the greatest natural migrations in the world!! This reserve is quite new and not well known or visited by many people; therefore, riders can enjoy the butterflies in their natural habitat. During the cavalcade some Mexican ranches and a 16th century hacienda are visited. On one of the days, after six hours riding with spectacular views, riders return to town on a boat that crosses the lake; a delightful and relaxing experience after a long day on the horse!!
The hosts speak fluent English and personally take care of all the details of the accommodations, meals, route, horses, and tack. A group of grooms make all the work of cleaning, feeding, and saddling horses. Everyday the group is accompanied by one of the hosts that guides through the route and two grooms that help the riders whenever they need it.
This is a first class service that provides the client with great horses, spectacular views, delicious Mexican food, beautiful and comfortable accommodations, and the traditional Mexican hospitality in one of the best weathers you can find in the world.
GENERAL INFORMATION
8 days/7 nights
4 - 7 hours riding per day
MIN / MAX 6 / 12 Riders
LIMIT WEIGHT 200 Pounds
LIMIT AGE 12 Years old
LEVEL Intermediate (route goes up and down by steep mountainous terrain).
PACE Moderate-slow with some canters and trotting.
TACK English, Western, and Mexican Charro.
ITEMS PROVIDED Saddlebags, Water Bottles, and Rain-Gear.
HORSES Trakhenner, Quarter, Thoroughbred, Appendix.
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