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Private Tour: Ex-Hacienda de Chautla & Val'Quirico Lavender Workshop

A private day trip blending a real hacienda, a lavender farm, and a boutique village.

Private tour — just your group 7 hours Up to 25 guests Free itinerary changes Local expert guide
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Overview

A private tour adventure combining the natural scenery and forest trails of Ex-Hacienda de Chautla, a real lavender workshop at Rancho San Martín Lavanda, and the bar and restaurant scene of Val'Quirico.

This is confirmed as a private tour adventure. Real stops include the Ex-Hacienda de Chautla, with its forest trails, chapel, and museum; Rancho San Martín Lavanda, a real working lavender and aromatic-herb farm; and Val'Quirico, a boutique village known for its bars and restaurants.

Highlights

  • Ex-Hacienda de Chautla A real historic hacienda with forest trails, a chapel, and a museum.
  • Rancho San Martín Lavanda A genuine working lavender and aromatic-herb farm, with a hands-on workshop.
  • Val'Quirico A real boutique village built around a European-style plaza of bars and restaurants.

What Stops Does This Tour Make?

A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.

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Pickup

Hotel pickup included in Puebla.

1

Ex-Hacienda de Chautla

A real historic hacienda with forest trails, a chapel, and a museum.

2

Rancho San Martín Lavanda

A genuine working lavender and aromatic-herb farm, with a hands-on workshop.

3

Val'Quirico

A real boutique village built around a European-style plaza of bars and restaurants.

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Drop-off

Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.

What's Included

A private vehicle and driver, just for your group
A professional, knowledgeable local guide
Door-to-door pickup and drop-off
A fully customizable itinerary built around you
All tolls, parking, and fuel

What's Not Included

Attraction admission tickets, unless noted as included
Meals and snacks
Gratuities for your guide or driver
Personal expenses

Why Book a Private Tour With Voyzo?

Your group only — never combined with strangers
Crowded 50+ seat group buses
Fully custom stops, built around you
A fixed script with no flexibility
Door-to-door pickup, wherever you're staying
Meeting at a fixed public meeting point
Direct, transparent pricing — no marketplace markup
Third-party booking fees

Important Information

Know Before You Book

  • Group size can range from 1 to 25 guests — we match the vehicle to your party.
  • Pricing depends on group size, vehicle, and tour length, and is confirmed after your quote request.
  • Tour duration is flexible — the times shown are a typical starting point.

Know Before You Go

  • We'll confirm your exact pickup time and vehicle details after booking.
  • Bring a camera, comfortable shoes, and weather-appropriate layers.
  • Your pickup address is required to finalize the itinerary.

Special Requests

  • Mobility needs, dietary notes, or accessibility requirements? Let us know when requesting your quote and we'll arrange accordingly.
  • Traveling with young children or larger groups — just tell us, and we'll recommend the right vehicle.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — you'll learn about lavender and aromatic-herb production directly at Rancho San Martín Lavanda.
Yes, this is a private tour adventure for your group.
No — despite its old-world look, Val'Quirico is a modern, purpose-built village that broke ground in 2014 and opened in 2015, on the site of a former hacienda, designed to evoke an Italian countryside aesthetic rather than preserve genuine colonial-era architecture.
Once your quote is accepted, we'll confirm your exact pickup time, vehicle, and driver details by email ahead of your tour date.
Yes — reach out to our team any time before your tour and we'll do our best to accommodate itinerary or schedule changes.

About This Tour

A private tour adventure combining the natural scenery and forest trails of Ex-Hacienda de Chautla, a real lavender workshop at Rancho San Martín Lavanda, and the bar and restaurant scene of Val'Quirico. This is confirmed as a private tour adventure. Real stops include the Ex-Hacienda de Chautla, with its forest trails, chapel, and museum; Rancho San Martín Lavanda, a real working lavender and aromatic-herb farm; and Val'Quirico, a boutique village known for its bars and restaurants.

Ex-Hacienda de Chautla traces back to 1559, when it was founded as a working estate by Jorge Cerón Carvajal, and it went on to operate for centuries as a sugar plantation and later a textile mill. The building most visitors actually come to see — the fairy-tale Castillo de Gillow, perched on a small island in the middle of a man-made lake — is a much later addition, built around 1898 by the Gillow family in a French-influenced style, with the lake itself created by damming the Atoyac River. Less visibly, Chautla also has a real claim to industrial history: one of Mexico's earliest hydroelectric plants, known as Las Ventanas, was installed on the property in 1903.

From the castle grounds, the hacienda opens onto real forest trails, an original manor chapel, and a small on-site museum explaining how the estate actually operated as a working hacienda, alongside pieces from its textile and sugar-milling past.

The lavender portion of the day takes you to Rancho San Martín Lavanda, a genuine working lavender and aromatic-herb farm, for a hands-on introduction to how the plants are grown and processed.

Val'Quirico, the day's final stop, is worth understanding honestly: it's not a historic colonial village, despite looking like one. Construction only began in 2014 on the site of a former Porfirian-era estate, Hacienda Santa Águeda, straddling the Puebla-Tlaxcala border, with the founders deliberately designing it — cobblestone streets, stone and adobe buildings — to evoke the look of the Italian countryside. It opened to the public in 2015, and today functions as a built boutique village of restaurants, art exhibitions, and artisan shops rather than a preserved historic site.

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