If you travel to Sonora, Hermosillo is an excellent destination, this city near the Sea of Cortez has bays, museums, archaeological sites and more to visit.
FRIDAY
After arriving at the International Airport “Gral. Ignacio L. Pesqueira ”from the modern and hospitable city of Hermosillo, you will be able to stay at the Bugambilia hotel, characterized by its typically Mexican decoration, and whose facilities will ensure a pleasant stay.
To start the tour, go to the Civic Center of the city where the Plaza Zaragoza is located, where you can see a Moorish-style kiosk brought from the Italian city of Florence.
In this site you will find the main buildings of the institutional powers, starting with the Municipal Palace and the Cathedral of the Assumption, which was built in the 18th century, although it was finished until the early 20th century. You can also visit the Government Palace whose walls are decorated by paintings by artists such as Héctor Martínez Artechi, Enrique Estrada and Teresa Morán who express relevant situations in the history of Sonora.
Another attraction of the city that you can visit is the Regional Museum of Sonora, where you can see an archaeological and historical collection related to the general history of Sonora.
If you are interested in plants, just 2.5 km from Hermosillo, on highway No. 15 to Guaymas, is the Ecological Center, where you can appreciate more than 300 kinds of plants, as well as 200 animal species from other regions of the world and the state itself, living in an extraordinary reproduction of its natural habitat.
At dusk you will be able to see a magnificent night view of the city from Cerro de la Campana, whose ascent is quite easy due to its cobbled paths and good lighting.
SATURDAY
After having breakfast, we suggest you travel 60 km south of Hermosillo where the La Pintada archaeological site is located, a site of great importance due to the caves that were used as a room, rest for the dead and a sanctuary for manifestations of pictographic art.
Back in Hermosillo, head west on highway No. 16, which will take you to Bahía Kino, next to the Sea of Cortez, named after the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, who visited the place during his evangelizing work in the seventeenth century . In this place, do not forget to look for the famous ironwood crafts, a wild desert tree of great hardness with which true works of art are made.
Possessing great natural beauty, Bahía Kino has calm waves and a pleasant temperature all year round that will invite you to do recreational and sports activities such as swimming, diving, fishing a great variety of species, sailing by boat, sailboat or yacht and walk on delicate sands. In the summer it is possible to catch sailfish, golden horse mackerel, cabrilla, cochito and with luck find berries; in the winter you can find fish, yellow tail and bottom fishing. Being in front of the coast you will be able to observe in the distance the Isla Tiburon, declared an ecological reserve, where the bighorn sheep and the mule deer live.
In Bahía Kino you can also delight yourself with the best examples of the cuisine of the Sonoran coast such as palapeño shrimp and lobster, or grilled shrimp, steamed clams and exquisite fish with onion.
We recommend you visit the Museum of the Seris, built with the aim of disseminating the background, language, clothing, crafts, habitat, housing, festivities, political and social organization of this ethnic group, considered the oldest and least numerous in the state.
SUNDAY
To enjoy your last day in Hermosillo, we invite you to visit the municipality of Ures, one of the oldest cities in Sonora, founded as a mission town in 1644 by the Jesuit Francisco París. Walk through its Plaza de Armas, where you will see four bronze sculptures referring to Greek mythology, donated by the Italian government, as well as the Temple of San Miguel Arcángel, with a single nave topped with a plaster and masonry altarpiece.
How to get?
Hermosillo is located 270 km from the border with the United States, along highway No. 15 to Nogales, and 133 km north of the port of Guaymas, along the same route.
The International Airport is located at kilometer 9.5 of the Hermosillo-Bahía Kino highway and receives, among other companies, Aerocalifornia and Aeroméxico.
The flight from Mexico City has an estimated time of 1 hour 35 minutes, while a bus trip is estimated to take 26 hours following a Mexico-Guadalajara-Hermosillo itinerary.
