Oaxaca Trip Overview
We always have a driver and a Licensed Tour Guide in our tours, we never talk and drive at the same time.
Forget about paying additional costs, in this tour everything is included, including local food & drinks.
We have a Tourism National Register,we have a federal Licensed as profesional Tour Guide English, French or Spanish, we offer you a Traveler Insurance (when you are inside the car) we have a First Aids Certification.
We ensure our full enjoyment by offering exciting opptunities including spontaneity and flexibility for exploring , shopping and time for reflexión.
We bring together professionals and friendly staff with profound knowledge of each place that we visit. We are from Oaxaca.
Additional Info
Duration: 8 to 9 hours
Starts: Oaxaca, Mexico
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
We always have a driver and a Licensed Tour Guide in our tours, we never talk and drive at the same time.
Forget about paying additional costs, in this tour everything is included, including local food & drinks.
We have a Tourism National Register,we have a federal Licensed as profesional Tour Guide English, French or Spanish, we offer you a Traveler Insurance (when you are inside the car) we have a First Aids Certification.
We ensure our full enjoyment by offering exciting opptunities including spontaneity and flexibility for exploring , shopping and time for reflexión.
We bring together professionals and friendly staff with profound knowledge of each place that we visit. We are from Oaxaca.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Yagul, Highway 190, Tlacolula Mexico
We will be in Yagul at the arqueological World Heritage Site to visit with your Licensed Tour guide in English or French , we´ll be in the top of the forteress to have a panoramic view to the valley of Tlacolula.High on a cactus-studded plateau, the site of Yagul offer a view of Oaxaca,we recommend to take a hat with you!
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: PARADOR TURISTICO DON AGAVE, km 26.5, Oaxaca – Tehuantepec, 70461 Oax., Mexico
We will drive out to the distillery/palenque Don Agave. This is a large palenque, and we will have a private tour with the experts!We will be able to see how mezcal is made, learn a ton about the types of agave, mezcal making, and tasting. This took about 1 or 2 hours,(its about your interest) You can ask all questions! The tasting is the best part of this visit!,this is the right place where you can buy some mezcal. Once you see and learn about mezcal you will be able to reconize which mezcalis the best for you.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Teotitlan del Valle, Teotitlan del Valle, Southern Mexico
A famous weaving village, located about 25km southeast of Oaxaca, Teotitlán has been renowned for its weaving wares since pre-Hispanic times: You will see how the rugs and other textiles are made with natural dyes , colourants derived from natural materials such as plants, parasites, or minerals. The most common natural dyes used by artisans today are vegetable dyes from plant sources such as leaves, roots, berries, bark, wood, nuts, vegetable and fruit skins, and juices. Quality today is high, and traditional dyes made from natural sources like indigo and cochineal very well know as THE GOD RED OF OAXACA.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Casa Viviana, Abasolo s/n, Centro, Tecutlan, 70420 Teotitlán del Valle, Oax., Mexico
We visit Master Viviana to see how she makes the beeswax candles.
Making candles with beeswax that has been done for more than four generations. Candles are used in an ancestral process for the community’s “asking for a hand” in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca when couples are getting married.
You will admire the artistic knowledge in each of these works, here you will have the possibility of acquiring one of these beautiful works.
You will experience the rich smell of honey and burning wood has filled the quiet street of the Oaxacan town of Teotitlán del Valle where Casa Viviana sits. Behind the modest brick-front building, Doña Viviana Alávez is the matriarch who presides over the crafting of elaborate, ceremonial beeswax candles and coloring the beeswax, pouring it into the wooden molds, cooling the molds with water, perfecting her craft, you will know the hard work that is behind each canddle
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Calle Union Templo De San Jeronimo Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca Mexico
You will visit a worshop studio of Papel Picado to see how is made.
Papel picado (“perforated paper,” “pecked paper”) is a decorative craft made by cutting elaborate designs into sheets of tissue paper. Papel picado is considered a Mexican folk art. The designs are commonly cut from as many as 40-50 colored tissue papers stacked together and using a guide or template, a small mallet, and chisels, creating as many as fifty banners at a time. Papel picado can also be made by folding tissue paper and using small, sharp scissors. Common themes include birds, floral designs, and skeletons. In Mexico, papel picados are often incorporated into the altars (ofrendas) during the Day of the Dead and are hung throughout the streets during holidays. In the streets of Mexico, papel picados are often strung together to create a banner that can either be hung across alleyways or displayed in the home….
Duration: 45 minutes
