DAY 1 MEXICO - OAXACA
Arrival in Oaxaca City, transfer to your hotel. Time to check in and make yourself comfortable. At 15hrs appointment in the lobby to start our visit to this beautiful city of Cantera Verde, a UNESCO National Heritage Site. City Tour is a tour that will allow you to get to know the center of Oaxaca on foot, accompanied at all times by a guide. Start by visiting the two most famous markets, 20 de Noviembre and Benito Juárez, where you will find a great variety of typical food and products of the region that you will surely not resist to try. We will continue our tour visiting the Zócalo, the Cathedral until we reach the Temple of Soledad, Patron Saint of the City, next to the Plaza de los Danzantes we can enjoy a delicious snow of the region to refresh ourselves a little. We will visit a chocolate factory to learn about the grinding process and the different ways to prepare it. We will finish the tour walking on the tourist walkway where you can see several stores, restaurants, museums and galleries, until we reach the Temple of Santo Domingo, a sample of Mexican baroque, built by the Dominican order. Return to the hotel. Lodging INCLUDES SNOW OF THE REGION.
DAY 2 MONTE ALBAN, ARRAZOLA, CUILAPAM AND COYOTEPEC
Appointment at 07:30 hrs. in the lobby of the hotel we will meet to take our way to visit Monte Alban the most important archaeological site of the Oaxacan entity that is 30 minutes away. In this area of architectural complex where you can see the Central Plaza this space is the heart of Monte Alban and around it are the main buildings of the place, such as the ball game, the south platform, the square of the dancers, the observatory among others is recommended to wear a hat, scarf and tennis; continue our way to Arrazola where you can be conquered by the wonderful figures carved and hand painted by Oaxacan artisans, the alebrijes are a mixture of color and strength in their figures.
We take some time to rest and enjoy a good buffet lunch where you can enjoy various dishes of the region (food included / drinks not included) We continue our tour to a stop in a place full of legends and literally with its own life in its architecture, the former convent of Cuilapam de Guerrero, place where the leader Vicente Guerrero was shot in 1831 and also keeps an endless number of stories that you should know. Finally we visit San Bartolo Coyotepec, where the famous “black clay pottery” is made. The pieces are molded and decorated using techniques of burnishing and casting, then they are fired in an underground oven. We will return approximately at 5:00 p.m., accommodation.
DAY 3 TULE - MITLA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE - MITLA CAVES - CANDLE WORKSHOP - TEOTITLÁN DEL VALLE - MEZCAL FACTORY
Appointment at 09am at the hotel lobby to start our tour with a 25 min drive to our first place is at the legendary Tule Tree a wonderful sample of the gigantic nature of Oaxaca. Our next stop after 1hr drive will be a wonder of nature that tells the story of the civilization of the state, the Mitla caves among the treasures that have been found during the years of research are a series of cave pictograms, in burnt red, depicting humans, animals, hands, arrows and what is believed to be maps of the night sky. To reach this incredible place we will have to walk along the banks of a stream until we reach the beginning of the caves.
Just 20 minutes away is the town of Mitla, we will visit the archaeological site better known as the City of the Dead, with its main feature of its walls full of fretwork put under pressure without any glue, also its town that mixes the religious conquest on the Mexica traditions and crafts market. On our way back we will stop for lunch at a restaurant with a buffet menu to taste the dishes of the region (food included / drinks not included).
We will continue our tour to visit our first artisan where she will explain us the elaboration of candles that are used in important events such as hand request, weddings or wakes; we will have the possibility to make our wax shell, we will continue to our next visit to a mezcal distillery, a unique drink in the state and full of tradition in its elaboration and ways of consumption, you will know the process of extraction, fermentation and you can get involved in the unique work of the artisans of this drink.
Finally we will visit Teotitlán del Valle, a town known for the production of wool rugs, we will see the process of carding wool, dyeing and work within the looms and how a rug of this work can take from 6 months to 1 year in its realization. Returning to the hotel.
DAY 4 OAXACA / MEXICO
Free day for personal activities at the agreed time transfer to the airport.
END OF SERVICES
CATEGORY | SLG | DBL | TPL |
Tourist | $699 | $539 | $539 |
Superior Tourist | $749 | $609 | $609 |
– Consult with your executive for supplement for holidays, long weekends and high season.
– Net prices per person in US dollars
– From 02 passengers
Prices valid until 2025-12-31
PLANNED HOTELS OR SIMILAR | |
CITY | HOTELS in Economy class |
City of Oaxaca | Hotel City Express Oaxaca Real or similar |
This is the list of the most frequently used hotels in this circuit. It is only for indicative purposes, and passengers may be accommodated in similar or alternative establishments. |
Itinerary route: Ciudad de México, Oaxaca, Monte Albán, Cuilapam de Guerrero, San Bartolo Coyotepec, Tule, Mitla, Teotitlán del Valle
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