Teotitlán Chocolate Making Workshop

Schedule: 9am-3pm

Cost per person: $155 USD/2,900 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable round trip transportation from Oaxaca city (40 mins each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Visit to village market

• Breakfast at the market of local delicacies like chotolate atole, tamales, memelas, and tepache

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

• Enjoy hot chocolate from the chocolate we prepare

• Take home some of the chocolate we make

• Lunch of local delicacies prepared by our hosts

• Rug weaving and natural dye demonstration

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to women's cooperative annual project

Mitla

Mitla Chocolate Making Workshop

Schedule: 9am-4pm

Cost per person: $155 USD/2,900 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes: 

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (1 hour each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Breakfast of regional dishes

• Learn to make traditional chocolate 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

• Enjoy hot chocolate made with the chocolate we make and agua blanca

• Taking home some of the chocolate we make

• Lunch of local delicacies prepared by a cocinera tradicional in the home of an antiques dealer and local historian accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal

• Visit to the Mitla ruins (entrance fee included, 30 min free time at the ruins)

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to women's cooperative annual project

San Marcos Tlapazola

Red Pottery Workshop & Traditional Cooking Class in San Marco Tlapazola

Schedule: 9am-6pm, *Not available Sundays

Cost per person: $200 USD/3,760 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

• Two personalized guides and translation (Spanish/English and Zapotec/Spanish)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (40 minutes each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Breakfast at our favorite spot in Santa Maria del Tule of local favorites like memelas, chocolate de agua, and chilaquiles

• Brief visit to the Tule tree (entrance fee included, 15 minutes free time)

• Cooking class of regional dishes with a cocinera tradicional utilizing heirloom corn grown by our teacher and traditional tools such as the comal and metate

• Enjoying the lunch that we cook accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal

• Red clay workshop, demo from our teacher of her free hand cups with their signature face, learning about her story and the history of the red clay pottery in the community. We will work on our own pieces with her guidance (*if you would like us to ship your piece to you after it is fired the cost is not included)

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to women's cooperative annual project

Miahuatlán

Miahuatlán Traditional Cooking Class & Mezcal

Schedule: 9am-7pm, *Not available Mondays

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,475 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation service (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (2 hours each way)). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

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

• Cooking class at a mezcal ranch which grows agaves as well heirloom varieties of corn, squash, and beans. Our teacher will show us how to make regional dishes with ingredients grown on site such as següeza, amarillo, and hand made tortillas

• Enjoying the lunch we cook

• 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

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to future community youth center

Benito Juárez

Bread Baking & Chocolate Making Workshop in the Sierra Norte

Schedule: 9am-6pm

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,475 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (40 minutes each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Visit to regional market

• Breakfast at the market of local delicacies like chotolate atole, tamales, memelas, and tepache

• ⁠Learn to make bread from a unique part of Oaxaca from scratch with a local family. We´ll use some wheat that is grown locally by our host´s father and bake it in a wood fired oven

• Learn to make traditional chocolate 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

• Enjoy hot chocolate made with the chocolate we make and our warm bread

• Taking home some of the chocolate and bread that we make

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

• Visit to the Benito Juárez viewpoint and suspension bridge (entrance fee included, 30 minutes free time)

• Optional zip line available at an additional cost (250 MXN/$13 USD) upon request (booking required 2 days ahead of time)

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to women's cooperative annual project

Ixtapeji

Wild Mushroom Foraging & Traditional Cooking Class in the Sierra Norte

Schedule: 9am-6pm

*Offered July, August, and into September depending on the rainfall

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,475 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (1 hour each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Breakfast at our favorite local spot in Huayapam of tetelas and tejate

• ⁠Two hour guided hike through the Sierra Norte woods with a local guide from the community (the hike is leisurely as we will be stopping and learning about mushrooms and the history of the area along the way)

• Mushroom foraging and identification with local guide learning about their roles and uses in the ecosystem, local cuisine, and traditional remedies

• A cooking class a cocinera traditional making tortillas by hand with local heirloom corn, mole, incorporating edible mushrooms we collect (when possible)

• Lunch that we cook accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to middle school soccer team for supplies and uniforms

*Please note that while the summer is generally a fantastic season to find wild mushrooms we cannot predict how many we find due to the yearly rainfall. We always check with our local hosts to ensure the best probability of finding a variety of mushrooms. Some trips we have found 30+ types and others we have fund abuntant amounts of a select few.

*We will be walking leisurely at an altitude around 2,800-3,200 meters above sea level, please make us aware of any medical conditions you have that might effect your participantion. Comfortable closed toed shoes like sneakers and hiking boots are highly recommended as well as rain coat.