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Guadalajara's many attractions can be found generously scattered all across the city. Below are some of the most visited areas of this beautiful and diverse metropolitan center.

The city's Centro Histórico (Historic Center) is where you will find many grand colonial buildings, which now make up many of the museums, government offices, bars and hotels and are well worth visiting. There are also dozens of green plazas that invite you to sit down, relax and watch people wander by the beautiful fountains and traditional bandstands.

The Zona Rosa (the Pink Zone) is more a modern area, showing off the new fashionable restaurants, coffee houses and nightclubs, as well as the salsa clubs and art galleries.

Bustling suburbs like Tlaquepaque and Tonalá are the best place for browsing the hundreds of handicraft stores then enjoying a good meal and watching the world go by. In contrast Zapopan boasts some interesting colonial relics but is better known as Guadalajara's Beverly Hills, where the beautiful and fabulous live on leafy estates that dominate the quaint cobblestone streets.

Guadalajara is responsible for many famous attributes of the Mexican lifestyle, for example tequila, mariachi music, the broad-rimmed sombrero, charreadas (rodeos) and, of course, the Mexican Hat Dance. Guadalajara really is worth a visit be it for its history, its shopping, its culture or its food!

Here are some of the activities that are available in Guadalajara and beyond. Potter's does not provide these services but our student support team can act as an intermediary to help you get set up - for more information please contact us.

Cooking Classes: Traditional Mexican dishes

Dance Classes: Salsa
Capoeria
Floclorica (Mexican folk dancing)
Salsa

Tours: Guadalajara's Historical Center
Zapopan's Historical Center
Tequila Bus Tour
Morelia
Guanajuato
Guachimontones
Jalisco

Physical Activities: Hiking
Cycling
Mountaineering
Fishing Trips
Playing Golf
Wake-boarding
Horse-riding
SPA treatments

Seaside Sports: Scuba Diving
Snorkling
Whale Watching

Volunteer projects: Working with Street Children
Working with Disabled Children and their families
Archaeological Sites
Missionary work
Marine Conservation
A private girls' orphanage
A government shelter for teens
An environmental project in a local ravine
A food bank
A home for the elderly
An animal shelter
A community recycling center

Arts and Crafts: Pottery Classes
Painting Classes
Guitar Lessons

Mexican Culture: Lucha Libre (wrestling)
Bull Fighting

Museums: Instituto Cultural Cabañas
Museo de las Artes
Museo Regional

Local towns to visit: Tapalpa
Tequila
Morelia
Aguascalientes
La Peña de Vernal
Tequisquiapan

Nearby beaches: Puerta Vallarta
Nueva Vallarta
Manzanillo
Barra de Navidad
Sayulita