Teotitlán & Mitla

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Teotitlán Weaving & Natural Dyes

Schedule: 9am-3pm

Cost per person: $155 USD/2,800 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (40 minutes each way)

  • Visit to a regional market

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

  • Hands on class with members of the Vida Nueva women’s cooperative learning how they process wool, use natural dyes, weave, and use Zapotec design

  • A chance to dye our own garments (feel free to bring your own) such as cloth napkins and T-shirts

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

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to women's cooperative annual project

 

Mitla Weaving & Mezcal Antiques

Schedule: 9am-4pm

Cost per person: $155 USD/2,800 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (1 hour)

  • Breakfast of tamales and fruit in the car

  • Visit to the home of weavers, one who works with cotton on a 4 pedal loom making tablecloths, blanks, and pillowcase

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

  • 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 home of an artisan who weaves on 4 pedal looms as well as backstrap looms, using cotton, wool and natural dyes, learning about the history of the community and Zapotec designs

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to women's cooperative annual project

 

Beeswax Candle Making Workshop 

Schedule: 9am-3pm

Cost per person: $155 USD/2,800 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (40 minutes each way)

  • Visit to village market

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

  • Demonstration from our teachers of the candle making process and how natural dyes are created

  • Hands on candle making class making wax flowers, mounting them onto hand poured beeswax candles

  • Bring home the candle you create, help packing it for travel

  • Lunch prepared by a cocinera tradicional accompanied by our sel

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to women's cooperative annual project

 
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Weaving Two Ways

Schedule: 9am-6pm

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (40 minutes each way)

  • Visit to village market

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

  • Hands on class with members of the Vida Nueva women’s cooperative learning how they process wool, use natural dyes, weave, and use Zapotec design

  • A chance to dye our own garments (feel free to bring your own) such as cloth napkins and T-shirts

  • Travel 20 minutes to the town of Mitla, 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

  • Learn weaving traditions in Mitla from a family that weaves cotton garments on both a four pedal loom and backstrap loom

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

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to women's cooperative annual project


Ocotlán Valley

Clay Two Ways

Schedule: 9am-6pm

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable and safe transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (1 hour each way)

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

  • Visit to the home and workshop of a family that makes sculpture with local red clay specializing in figures of mermaids, Oaxacans in traditional dress, and fantastical creatures

  • Two hour workshop, making our own clay creations

  • Lunch of regional dishes at Ocotlán market

  • Visit to a palenque in the home of a mezcal producer working with his sons to make micro batches of Minero mezcal for personal consumption and local sale

  • 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

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to community library

Machetes & Mezcal

Schedule: 9am-6pm

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable and safe transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (1 hour each way)

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

  • We visit a workshop of blacksmiths who have been making knive, swords, and machetes that have used in mezcal production in the region for 4 generations. The workshop is famous for having made the sword used in the movie Conan the Barbarian. We´ll learn about the old fashioned process they still use to make their pieces.

  • Lunch of regional dishes at Ocotlán market

  • Visit to a palenque in the home of a mezcal producer working with his sons to make micro batches of Minero mezcal for personal consumption and local sale

  • 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

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to community library