Unique things to do in Oaxaca

Discover Oaxaca de Juárez through a tour that delves into art, history, and geography. As a specialized guide, I'll immerse you in Oaxacan culture and its origins, traversing the city's historical boundaries. This experience will unveil emblematic sites and their historical context, revealing the uniqueness of Oaxacan culture. From the charming Barrio de Jalatlaco to the iconic Parque El Llano and the fascinating Historic Center of the City of Oaxaca. Join this tour in Oaxaca de Juárez to explore the best of this city steeped in history and tradition!"

Oaxaca's FAVORITE ride. A must do while you're here! Join this beautiful and safe bike ride to see the massive and ancient "El Tule" tree, which is famous for being the WIDEST tree in the world. We'll also visit the town of "Santa Maria del Tule", its church and its market. This is a great GUIDED ride and we'll provide you with a BIKE and HELMET. We'll meet in Oaxaca city to start our journey to El Tule tree (45 min. bicycle ride from downtown [10 km / 6 miles one way]). We'll ride on a nice bike lane covered with tree shades for the most part. It's mostly flat. We'll start biking out of the city first, then towards the outskirts with views of beautiful hills, and crop fields. Once we arrive to Santa Maria, we'll take you to the tree the colorful church and the beautiful lush gardens. Here you'll LEARN interesting facts and history about the tree. Then, we'll have time to visit the food market to grab a bite/drink and to walk around the square and gardens. Finally, we'll start our ride back to Oaxaca. REQUIREMENTS: - To know how to ride a bike (EASY-MODERATE ride, 20 KM / 12 miles total). - MINIMUM height is 1.53 m / 5' 0 ft. WHAT´S INCLUDED: Bike, helmet, on-the-go repair tool kit, profesional bilingual guide. *Bikes provided are ours (not rentals), well maintained to offer a great riding experience. ig ivan _ valero1 *Check out my profile for other rides and hikes.

Discover Mezcal & Mole in Oaxaca Ideal for couples and groups, immerse yourself in an evening of Oaxacan culinary traditions with expert sommeliers. Explore seven artisanal mezcals and traditional moles, each pairing crafted to showcase the unique flavors of regional agaves and ingredients. Highlights: - Guided by Experts: Learn from sommeliers trained at the Agave Spirits Institute. - Diverse Tastings: Includes rare mezcals like Espadín, Cuixe, and Destilado de Chocolate. - Vegan-Friendly Moles: Enjoy moles prepared with pure ingredients, suitable for all dietary preferences. - Cultural Connection: Discuss, learn, and connect over Oaxaca's rich gastronomic heritage. Details: - Languages: Available in Spanish for private groups. - All Included: Just bring your curiosity! -Experience the magic of mezcal and mole. Join us for a night to remember!

Enjoy a tour and photo shoot through the historic center of the city of Oaxaca and keep the best memories of your trip to this beautiful city. What we will do: We will meet in the temple of Santo Domingo that is more than 400 years old and then walk around the tourist walkway looking for facades and colors that will serve as vibrant settings for our photos, until we reach the Macedonio Alcalá theater, which is one of the most important that exist in Mexico. We will continue to the Cruz de Piedras to conlciur with some photos full of life and exciting colors and textures. I will adapt to your tastes, in the streets we will find architecture, textures, a lot of color, interesting vanishing points and street art, the idea is to find your style. The photographs will be delivered digitally through Wetransfer

The Vegetarian Oaxacan Cooking Class, a class in English and Spanish, we will take a tour through a beautiful traditional neighborhood of Oaxaca, lend you a "chiquigüite and mandil" occupied to go to the market traditionally, we will take a tour of the Mercado neighborhood, we will pass the most beautiful churches and we will walk through parks overlooked by beautiful trees, pink, green and yellow quarry houses, I will show you beautiful parks of the colonial neighborhood and secret parks of this area of the city. In the middle of our tour we will meet some fresh organic vegetable and vegetable producers from a village near the city grown organically and harvested in the morning, then we will visit some producers in the neighborhood market, taste some snacks and buy some supplies for our Oaxacan vegetarian cooking class. We will return to our starting point to start the class and provide all the information on our menu, we will prepare everything fresh, a main course, a salad, water and even a dessert and all taken care of by a traditional stove. We will share the food and thank the mother earth and all the presenters, as well as the flavors of Oaxaca and diverse. Other things to note This cooking class was developed through deep research with people who specialize in pre-hispanic food, and we seek to spread the heritage value of Oaxacan vegetarian food.

Discover the BREATHTAKING beauty of the petrified waterfalls at Hierve el Agua. Witness stunning rock formations that resemble frozen waterfalls as we explore the site on foot and take a REFRESHING swim, all while enjoying the AWE-INSPIRING views of the surrounding landscapes. Fully guided in both ENGLISH and Spanish. This is the perfect way to visit Hierve el Agua, hike around the formations and relax at the pools WITHOUT the addition of UNNECESSARY stops to actually see the place up and down with no rush. We'll meet in downtown Oaxaca. Then, we'll begin our journey to Hierve el Agua (1:30 hr. drive [70 km]) Once we arrive, we'll start the hike to the petrified waterfalls, go to the most amazing viewpoints, hike down to the base to it from below and appreciate its stunning beauty. We'll continue the hike and come back up to spend some time relaxing in the natural pools where you can dip your feet or even go for a full body dive. We'll finish off trying delicious food at a local eatery in the site before driving back to Oaxaca. WHAT'S INCLUDED: - ALL entry fees and tolls included. - Comfortable private transportation. ig ivan _ valero1 Things to note: -BOOK AHEAD, as it fills up early. -Food is NOT included. -Bring a bathing suit, a towel and a change of clothes. -We will hike from the top of the falls to the bottom and back up. Expect a 30 min ascend on rocky stairs.

Discover Oaxaca de Juárez through a tour that delves into art, history, and geography. As a specialized guide, I'll immerse you in Oaxacan culture and its origins, traversing the city's historical boundaries. This experience will unveil emblematic sites and their historical context, revealing the uniqueness of Oaxacan culture. From the charming Barrio de Jalatlaco to the iconic Parque El Llano and the fascinating Historic Center of the City of Oaxaca. Join this tour in Oaxaca de Juárez to explore the best of this city steeped in history and tradition!"

Oaxaca's FAVORITE ride. A must do while you're here! Join this beautiful and safe bike ride to see the massive and ancient "El Tule" tree, which is famous for being the WIDEST tree in the world. We'll also visit the town of "Santa Maria del Tule", its church and its market. This is a great GUIDED ride and we'll provide you with a BIKE and HELMET. We'll meet in Oaxaca city to start our journey to El Tule tree (45 min. bicycle ride from downtown [10 km / 6 miles one way]). We'll ride on a nice bike lane covered with tree shades for the most part. It's mostly flat. We'll start biking out of the city first, then towards the outskirts with views of beautiful hills, and crop fields. Once we arrive to Santa Maria, we'll take you to the tree the colorful church and the beautiful lush gardens. Here you'll LEARN interesting facts and history about the tree. Then, we'll have time to visit the food market to grab a bite/drink and to walk around the square and gardens. Finally, we'll start our ride back to Oaxaca. REQUIREMENTS: - To know how to ride a bike (EASY-MODERATE ride, 20 KM / 12 miles total). - MINIMUM height is 1.53 m / 5' 0 ft. WHAT´S INCLUDED: Bike, helmet, on-the-go repair tool kit, profesional bilingual guide. *Bikes provided are ours (not rentals), well maintained to offer a great riding experience. ig ivan _ valero1 *Check out my profile for other rides and hikes.

Discover Mezcal & Mole in Oaxaca Ideal for couples and groups, immerse yourself in an evening of Oaxacan culinary traditions with expert sommeliers. Explore seven artisanal mezcals and traditional moles, each pairing crafted to showcase the unique flavors of regional agaves and ingredients. Highlights: - Guided by Experts: Learn from sommeliers trained at the Agave Spirits Institute. - Diverse Tastings: Includes rare mezcals like Espadín, Cuixe, and Destilado de Chocolate. - Vegan-Friendly Moles: Enjoy moles prepared with pure ingredients, suitable for all dietary preferences. - Cultural Connection: Discuss, learn, and connect over Oaxaca's rich gastronomic heritage. Details: - Languages: Available in Spanish for private groups. - All Included: Just bring your curiosity! -Experience the magic of mezcal and mole. Join us for a night to remember!

Enjoy a tour and photo shoot through the historic center of the city of Oaxaca and keep the best memories of your trip to this beautiful city. What we will do: We will meet in the temple of Santo Domingo that is more than 400 years old and then walk around the tourist walkway looking for facades and colors that will serve as vibrant settings for our photos, until we reach the Macedonio Alcalá theater, which is one of the most important that exist in Mexico. We will continue to the Cruz de Piedras to conlciur with some photos full of life and exciting colors and textures. I will adapt to your tastes, in the streets we will find architecture, textures, a lot of color, interesting vanishing points and street art, the idea is to find your style. The photographs will be delivered digitally through Wetransfer

Welcome to my home, your home! I'm Mimi Lopez Hernandez and the first thing we will do is cook our own sauce for our authentic Oaxacan breakfast. Then we will learn about the organic ingredients that we will use in our traditional Oaxaca recipe: one of the famous seven moles of Oaxaca and some delicious tamales in the style of our valley; we will make a toast with mezcal to start the experience and hands to work. Oaxacan cuisine is world represented by famous dishes that we can prepare and so you know a little more about our way of eating them, these dishes will be the ones you will take in your heart and you will learn how to do it from the beginning to the end. Don't forget that you'll be involved in each process to understand the cultural meaning of each other, you'll learn how to make tortillas by hand and put them in the comal, so come ready to participate and eat! After that, we'll eat what we prepare together. Traditional cuisine in Oaxaca is a cultural heritage and I will share with you the experience of visiting my house so that you live a totally traditional experience. Come prepared to enjoy! For your convenience the classes are available in English, with special characteristics for vegans or vegetarians, just let me know in advance. Welcome to Oaxaca!

The Vegetarian Oaxacan Cooking Class, a class in English and Spanish, we will take a tour through a beautiful traditional neighborhood of Oaxaca, lend you a "chiquigüite and mandil" occupied to go to the market traditionally, we will take a tour of the Mercado neighborhood, we will pass the most beautiful churches and we will walk through parks overlooked by beautiful trees, pink, green and yellow quarry houses, I will show you beautiful parks of the colonial neighborhood and secret parks of this area of the city. In the middle of our tour we will meet some fresh organic vegetable and vegetable producers from a village near the city grown organically and harvested in the morning, then we will visit some producers in the neighborhood market, taste some snacks and buy some supplies for our Oaxacan vegetarian cooking class. We will return to our starting point to start the class and provide all the information on our menu, we will prepare everything fresh, a main course, a salad, water and even a dessert and all taken care of by a traditional stove. We will share the food and thank the mother earth and all the presenters, as well as the flavors of Oaxaca and diverse. Other things to note This cooking class was developed through deep research with people who specialize in pre-hispanic food, and we seek to spread the heritage value of Oaxacan vegetarian food.

Hola! Somos Beto y Lupita! Una pareja de viajeros, creadores de contenido digital, orgullosos de nuestra cultura y enamorados de las tradiciones oaxaqueñas. Te llevaremos a contemplar las majestuosas cascadas petrificadas de hierve el agua. Lugar único en el mundo (solamente existen 2 cascadas de este tipo en el planeta) Nuestra aventura comienza muy temprano para poder disfrutar del lugar sólo para nosotros, ya que bajaremos al fondo de la cascada haciendo algo de senderismo! Podrás gozar de las piscinas naturales y bañarte en ellas, tendrás el privilegio de contemplar vistas únicas y además, te ayudaremos a tomar las mejores fotos. Continuaremos nuestro recorrido en el mercado más emblemático y tradicional de la región, para disfrutar de un autentico almuerzo oaxaqueño! El famoso "Mercado de Tlacolula". Grandioso por su folklore, gastronomía y diversidad cultural. Después, visitaremos el pueblo de "Teotitlán del Valle". En donde aprenderemos la elaboración de una de las artesanías más icónicas, no sólo de Oaxaca, sino de todo México: Los tapetes de lana tejidos con pigmentos naturales. En el taller, tendremos la oportunidad de participar en las técnicas ancestrales que utilizan nuestros artesanos desde hace varias generaciones. Nuestra última parada será en el milenario árbol del Tule! Famoso por su longevidad y catalogado como el árbol con el tronco más ancho del mundo.

Hola! Somos Lily & Ricardo! Una familia oaxaqueña que cultiva agave y desde hace 5 años, también producimos nuestra propia marca de Mezcal. Nuestra aventura comienza en el centro de la ciudad de Oaxaca con rumbo a Matatlán, pueblo mejor conocido como: "La capital mundial del mezcal" al ser el mayor productor de esta bebida en todo México. Ahí visitamos una destilería artesanal para ver de cerca la producción tradicional del mezcal. Nuestro objetivo es aprender todo el proceso paso a paso y valorar todo el esfuerzo qué hay detrás de esta bebida. En nuestro recorrido tendremos la oportunidad de ver áreas privadas, que normalmente están restringidas, como una cava de reposo y añejamiento; o incluso áreas de envasado en donde podrás participar y ser parte importante del proceso. Después de aprender cómo se elabora el mezcal, realizamos la degustación, la cual es ilimitada! Ya que podrás probar tanto como desees! Además, platicaremos sobre las diferentes categorías, clases y variedades que existen. Continuamos nuestro viaje a los increíbles campos de agave, en donde podrás capturar las mejores fotos e incluso realizar actividades como plantación, corte o cosecha según la temporada. Para finalizar ofrecemos una rica y tradicional comida oaxaqueña elaborada por nuestra familia! + Sí la fecha que buscas no está disponible, por favor envíanos un mensaje! Ig: @themezcaljourney

We start the day in our family farm to introduce ourselves and Oaxacan cooking to you over coffee or hot chocolate we will choose the menu for the day where you will become the main chef of this culinary experience we will go to the farm to collect fresh herbs & veggies we will walk 4 min to the local market to buy the remaining ingredients for our Oaxacan feast Back at home will start to work with metate to transform the corn into a handmade masa to make fresh tortillas you will cook, nopales, huitlacoche, shred quesillio to make quesadillas, empanadas, tetelas in the hot Comal that works with wood fire You will have a moles tasting I Will show you how to cook different kinds of salsas to enjoy brunch After a nice break and some mezcales, we will cook a real Oaxacan 3 course meal It could be any of the most representative moles or other things, there is so many options to choose from the cooking class always is different, it’s based on your curiosity and doubts so, feel free to Choose your own mole/cooking adventure! Sip a nice mezcal and refresh yourself with a beer enjoying a real traditional oaxacan feast under the shade trees This workshop is fully hands-on and the aim of this experience is to share knowledge and teach you how to cook it at home we aim to show to our guests the magic of Oaxaca food in the real traditional way also we can accommodate food restrictions

What you'll do The first step will be to show you the ingredients that you can find in all Oaxacan homes, one of the advantages of our experience is that we have a garden with herbs and organic chilis. Baldo my son will share his knowledge in mezcal. We have an extend variety of agaves and homemade creations that you need to try. An open bar of mezcal is waiting for you. Snacks? Of course but you need to do Oaxacan style which includes worms, chicatanas and chapulines. Fist course we will offer chileajo tostadas and fruit water. Have you heard anything about the metate and how tortillas are made by hand? Here we will show you how to make tortillas, tetelas and memelitas. One of my specialties is salsas made in a molcajete, we will roast the ingredients over charcoal and comal. In every class we make 4 to 6 salsas depending seasonal ingredients. The mole is the emblem of our cuisine and we will make one of the 7 moles from scratch using a metate, you can’t leave our home without tasting our mole negro, chocolate de agua, café de olla, nieves and a delicious cake. Everyone will participate in the different processes, cutting ingredients from the garden, making sauces and of course eating. Remember, when you visit a house in Oaxaca you have to come with an empty stomach. Other things to note The class is available in English too. We can offer classes for vegans and vegetarians, please let us know in advance. I am very exited to show you the authentic traditional flavours of Oaxaca

Hola, soy Fernando! Soy arquitecto y apasionado de la arquitectura y el arte de cada edificio. Caminaremos por la bella ciudad de Oaxaca visitando distintos puntos mágicos en Oaxaca, donde analizaremos la arquitectura que hay en mi bello estado y sentiremos la energía que existe en cada espacio. Así cómo lugares con vistas únicas e impresionantes dentro de los puntos que visitamos. Hablaremos de Arquitectura, Interiorismo, Paisajismo y distintos detalles que encontraremos durante el recorrido. Esta aventura la empezaremos en uno de los lugares mas emblemáticos de Oaxaca, el Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán. Haremos paradas que deleitarán todos tus sentidos haciendo el recorrido mágico y único. Terminaremos en uno de los Hoteles con una arquitectura única por su diseño y color, donde podremos disfrutar de una hermosa vista y bebidas. Esta última parada se encuentra en el mágico Barrio de Jalatlaco. Puedes seguirme en redes como: @fsarchitect

Traveling the city at night by car is an experience that fascinates me, the city changes and we can see different aspects of both visual and customs, I will show you some of the main old neighborhoods that are around the historic center (a bit far from downtown of the city), We will have 3 stops in 2 taquerias (which are changing day by day) and at the end we will go for a couple of beers in one of my favorite bars in the city, first we will find ourselves in a garden very close to the center (Conzati Garden), we will go up to my truck and we will go to the neighborhood of Jalatlaco (one of the oldest neighborhoods of Oaxaca) we will cross the area and we will go to the first taco stop of the night. I can tell you a little about the history of the neighborhoods or we can simply enjoy the music that we especially compile for this experience. Finally we will go to a taqueria in the neighborhood of Ex Marquesado and finally we will return to the center to have a couple of beers in one of my favorite bars in the city. The experience can be shaped according to your tastes and the type of food you prefer.

Make sure you´re booking the english tour cause the spanish one has no dinner and no gift included. The description of the experience is just a formality, but please check the reviews and you will see that this is the best storytelling tour in the city. We will have dinner at the NETFLIX place of the show STREET FOOD LATINAMERICA! We will meet at the Church of Solitude to be able to have an introduction to the myths and legends of Oaxaca and Mexico, as well as the world of the fantastic and intangible. I will tell you the urban history of the "sereno" and the alley of death, we will visit the alley where the legend happened. Then we will walk to our place of dinner where we will delight with some delicious empanadas and pot cafe: The best in all of Mexico! I'll tell you the story of "La llorona", the big tragedy of Mexico. We will talk about our spiritual guides and the rituals that take place in the villages to obtain them, I will have a surprise and a gift. Other things to note We will walk and stop to tell the stories, you will learn about some plants that the shaman use to do a cleansing and you will know our urban stories, it is not a representation of the legends. It's street food (The one of Netflix show of Mexico), sometimes we have chairs or standing up, an adventure to eat in this delicious place! LEMBRANZA MEXICO IG TEXT ME THERE TO HAVE A LOWER PRICE

A ceremony that combines the power of the plant with the knowledge of the spirits. Upon arrival we will welcome you into a comfortable and cool space in which we will chat about the ceremony. We will enter the temazcal and use a medicinal plant which you probably already know and tried… This experience is unique because this plant is NOT used in a traditional temazcal. The mystical guide you will meet once introduced the plant in the temazcal as an experiment. It turned out to be magical. Pitch black darkness. A traditional steam bath created with volcanic rocks which we call the “abuelas”. This dark adobe room reaches more than 113 farenheit to match mother earth’s womb temperature. A “limpia” will be performed; followed by a guided meditation and chants to balance our energetic vibrations. The heat and humidity will make your pores open and the endoc system will receive all the properties and nutrition. You will sweat, feel peace, detox and find yourself in this magical place. The pros of temazcal are infinite, our current favorite is that its great for COVID aftermath. At the end we will all rest and enjoy snacks and hydrating drinks.