Join us in celebrating Baby Jesus in Santa Catarina Minas where every year the celebration includes a procession through town with decorated pine branches, dancing, tamales, and mole.

Open for 2-6 participants to join. Contact us here to reserve your spot!

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (1 hour each way)

• Quick breakfast of antojitos, little local snacks at our favorite roadside comedor

• Tour of 2 mezcal palenques producing clay pot distilled mezcal:

  • Tour of an agave nursery and artisanal palenque, which produces small batch clay pot distilled mezcal where we learn about the mezcal production process from seed to bottle. The palenque is owned and operated by family that has been making mezcal for 4 generations and currently produces mezcal for national and international sale committing to sustainable agriculture and giving back to the community

  • Visit to a second palenque in the home of a traditional mezcal producer working with his sons to make micro batches of Minero mezcal for personal consumption and local sale

• Tasting of mezcal made on site at each palenque

• A chance to purchase mezcal directly from the producers (price not included), and our help packing it for travel

• Participate in the traditional Christmas Eve day procession with pine branches

• Lunch of regional dishes at Ocotlán market

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to community library