Cooking in the Campo: Learn to make tortillas and salsas!

Our adventure starts from the market,  choose your ingredients that you will use to make delicious tortillas y salsas! Visit the market and select everything you need with our translator.  Get ready for this experience full of colors, food, music and fantastic energy that you will only find in Oaxaca. Venture out to Yatareni with … Read more

Open-Air Cooking in the Campo: Tamales

Venture out to Yatareni with Tlayudona and Doña Juana for a taste of life in the campo.  Juana and her family dedicate themselves to cultivating a mixture of corns, beans, and squash, known locally as “la milpa”.  Their property is close enough to Oaxaca´s city center to make it an easy venture, although you´ll enjoy … Read more

Hands on Dyeing and Weaving Workshop in Teotitlán (One-Day Workshop)

Our dyeing host from Teotitlán, Doña Josefina from the women´s collective, is hosting this workshop in which you will be able to dye a range of natural colors from organic pigments, and then weave your own small piece to take home. Join us and the women´s weaving collective in Teotitlán del Valle, the village known … Read more

Open-Air Cooking in the Campo: An Afternoon of Tamales

Venture out to Yatareni with Tlayudona and Doña Juana for a taste of life in the campo.  Juana and her family dedicate themselves to cultivating a mixture of corns, beans, and squash, known locally as “la milpa”.  Their property is close enough to Oaxaca´s city center to make it an easy venture, although you´ll enjoy … Read more

Mezcal Tasting in Tlayudona

Join us at Tlayudona to learn about mezcal culture with our local host, Tania. You’ll expand your understanding about the origins and production methods of artisanal mezcal to contextualize this sensorial experience. We will offer you a selection of our finest artisanal mezcal varieties for tasting, and you will get to taste three types of … Read more

Day of the Dead Vocho Mural Tour

This unique little gem of an experience takes you out in Frida Vochida, which we assume to be Oaxaca’s only vocho with its own Instagram account, to the village of Zaachila to tour some of the best Day of the Dead murals. Frida’s dad, Tra, who’s a history buff and aficionado regarding things like murals … Read more

Catrina (or Catrín) Make-up at Tlayudona (12:00- 1:30 p.m.)

The Catrina is an iconic Mexican character created by the cartoon artist Jose Posada about 100 years ago as political satire and a commentary on issues of social class in Mexico, which was later popularized by Diego Rivera’s paintings. Over time, the complex history of this figure has had many significances, but has ultimately come … Read more

Catrina (or Catrín) Make-up at Tlayudona (2:00- 3:30 p.m.)

The Catrina is an iconic Mexican character created by the cartoon artist Jose Posada about 100 years ago as political satire and a commentary on issues of social class in Mexico, which was later popularized by Diego Rivera’s paintings. Over time, the complex history of this figure has had many significances, but has ultimately come … Read more

Day of the Dead Altar in Etla

Day of the Dead is such a precious time in Oaxaca, and this experience has been designed for you to get to experience its beauty and significance in the most profound way possible… family style. We are going to start the day with a grand Oaxacan welcoming in the village of Etla, complete with hot … Read more

Day of the Dead Market Trip and Altar Building in San Bartolo

Day of the Dead is such a precious time in Oaxaca, and this experience has been designed to live its beauty and significance in the most profound way possible… family style. Doña Sandra will begin the day as she likes to begin each experience with Tlayudona—With a grand Oaxacan welcoming, complete with hot chocolate and … Read more