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Tlacolula Market, Chocolate, & Breadmaking in Mitla

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Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

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

  • Guided visit to the día de plaza in Tlacolula where vendors come from all over the state to sell produce, coffee, bread, chocolate, honey, chilies and other local delicacies

  • Breakfast of local dishes at the market such as memelas and goat barbacoa

  • Learn to make chocolate from scratch with a cocinera tradicional, 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 of local delicacies prepared by a cocinera tradicional at the home of local historian and mezcal antiques collector accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal

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

Earlier Event: September 28
Barbacoa
Later Event: October 28
Miahuatlán Market & Mezcal