Join us in celebrating the feast day of San Judea Tadeo, one of the most important holidays in Mitla. We begin preparations for the Dead of the Dead season by making our own chocolate for the big day, and visit bakers making pan de muerto the traditional bread served during Day of the Dead.

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Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

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

• Breakfast at our favorite taco spot in Oaxaca city

• Chocolate making workshop with cocinera tradicional from scratch, toasting the cacao, taking it to the mill, and forming it into bars to be used in cooking and hot chocolate

• Take home some of the chocolate we make

• Lunch at the home of an antiques collector, learning about the pieces and history of mezcal in the region accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal

• Visit to Mitla ruins (entrance fee included, free time at ruins)

• Visit to a local bakers making pan de muerto, the traditional bread consumed during the season and participate in decorating the bread

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to women’s cooperative annual project