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Join us in closing out the celebration of Day of the Dead in Oaxaca in the Ocotlán Valley. Here we visit a traditional mezcal community and a farming community who extend their celebrations one extra day than most other communities in Oaxaca. We visit a graveyard in a community where the majority of flowers (marigolds and coxcomb) are grown for use in altars and graves during todos santos. This community honors their loved ones by decorating the graves of loved ones with elaborate flower carpets.

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable and safe 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)

• Lunch at our favorite roadside comedor of regional dishes like mole, tlayudas, and memelas

• Tour of an agave nursery and artisanal palenque, which produces small batch clay pot distilled mezcal where we learn about the mezcal production process from seed to bottle. The palenque is owned and operated by family that has been making mezcal for 4 generations and currently produces mezcal for national and international sale committing to sustainable agriculture and giving back to the community

• Tasting of minero mezcal made on site

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

• Visit to the graveyard in the farming community of San Antonino Velasco to see the traditional flower carpets for día de los muertos

• Dinner of empandas de amarillo in San Antonino (the town´s specialty)

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to community library