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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. Using the chocolate we make, we will prepare one of the most important dishes of the season-mole negro.

Cost per person: $155 USD/2,900 MXN

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 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