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6 SPOTS LEFT! Teotitlán Chocolate Making

Join us in preparing for the Día de los Muertos celebration by making chocolate from scratch, a drink that is essential for honoring the visiting souls and serving to visitors. We will learn a centuries old family recipe and get to take some home.

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Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (40 minutes each way)

  • Visit to regional market

  • Breakfast at the market of fresh juice, baked goods, memelas, and hot chocolate at market

  • Learn to make traditional chocolate from scratch with a cocinera tradicional, toasting the cacao, grinding it by hand, and forming it into bars to be used in cooking and hot chocolate

  • Take home some of the chocolate we make

  • Lunch prepared by a cocinera tradicional accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal

  • Rug weaving and natural dye demonstration

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to women's cooperative annual project