Dates: Mon, Oct 30 & Tues, Oct 31; Overnight Outing

Schedule: Pickup in Oaxaca city 9am Oct 30, drop off 6pm Oct 31

Spaces available: 4 person minimum, 8 person maximum

Price per person: $450 USD/8,100 MXN

Join us on this overnight experience deep in the heart of mezcal country where we participate in the final preparations for día de los muertos with mezcal producing families of the region; visiting a nighttime flower market, a 125 year old bakery making the famous pan de yema, make our own altar, and of course feast on tamales de mole negro.

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (2 hours each way) all transportation during overnight stay

  • All mentioned activities

  • 5 meals (does not include dinner on Day 2)

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Overnight accommodations at Rancho Los Nahuales, double occupancy rooms

  • Donation to future community youth center

Day 1: 9am-12am

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

  • Visit to a traditional mezcal palenque, learning about the process and history of the mezcal of the region directly from the producing families who have been distilling their mezcal in copper for 4 generations

  • Learn about and see the biodiversity of different types of agaves used to make mezcal

  • Tasting of traditional mezcal made on site

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

  • Farm to table lunch of local delicacies prepared by a cocinera tradicional

  • Settle at Rancho Los Nahuales, afternoon siesta 

  • Visit to nighttime flower market to buy supplies for our altar, including a trip to a 100 year old fireworks store 

Day 2: 8am-6pm

  • Early morning rise to gather chapulines (grasshoppers) and biruxe (wild marigold) for our altar (dependent on whether there has been enough rain this year)

  • Breakfast at Rancho Los Nahuales

  • Head into town to spend the day participating in the local Día de los Muertos traditions with a local family including creating our own Day of the Dead altar and tamal making 

  • Lunch of mole negro tamales that we make accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal and hot chocolate

  • Head back to Oaxaca by 4pm, arrive in Oaxaca City around 6pm