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Wild Mushroom Foraging in the Sierra Sur


Only 8 spots left! Write to here to reserve yours.

Groups: 4 minimum, 8 maximum

Cost per person: $1,500, 28,200 MXN

Activities planned:

  • Hands-on class with the Vida Nueva women's cooperative learning about the plants of the region used in spiritual healing, traditional medicine, and natural dyes 

  • Learn about and participate in a limpia, Zapotec massage, and temezcal

  • Hike to a sacred mountain in the community lead by cooperative members 

  • Beeswax candles workshop, learning about the candles made in the community for different spiritual and religious ceremonies

  • Group meals made using heirloom corn and local herbs from the region prepared by cocineras tradicionales 

  • A traditional mezcal tasting of our family´s small batch local mezcals, learning about mezcal´s role in traditional healing in Oaxaca

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (English/Spanish)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (40 min each way)

  • Cost of all programmed activities over the course of the trip

  • 9 meals

  • Tasting of traditional mezcal from local producers

  • 3 night stay at La Cúpula hotel (double occupancy) or accommodations of equivalent quality in Teotitlán

  • Drinking water and light snacks 

  • Temezcal (traditional steam bath), limpia, and Zapotec massage

  • Donation to women´s cooperative annual community service project