Authentic Oaxacan food & Cultural Experience
Overview
Oaxaca's culinary heritage and traditional cooking methods provide a unique experience that goes beyond typical dining. This journey takes you to Native towns where indigenous families still prepare food using age-old techniques.
- 👩🍳 Taste dishes prepared specially for you by local cooks.
- 🌽 Learn about ancestral cooking techniques, including hand-grinding corn and using clay pots.
- 📖 Hear stories behind each recipe, revealing the connection between food, identity, and daily life.
- 🏠 Support local markets and families dedicated to preserving Oaxaca’s culinary traditions.
- 🥘 Enjoy a fully private and all-inclusive genuine Oaxacan cultural and gastronomic immersion.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Pickup included
- Textile weaving demostration in Teotitlán town
- Private Transportation
- Tacos & Oaxacan Icecream at Tlacolula market
- A cooler with drinks
- Breakfast in Teotitlán market
- Authentic Mole tasting
- Traditional Chocolate workshop
- Mezcal tasting
Meeting point
Return details
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OaxacaSTARTING TIME 9:00 AM We will do 45 min approximately from Oaxaca city to the fisrt stop.
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We will start this delicious and cultural experience in a small native Market to have breakfast and try the next options: Memelitas, Empanadas of Mole amarillo with chicken, oaxacan cheese or squash blossom flower, traditional tamales and Atole!
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Teotitlan del ValleWe will move to the next spot in the same community, visiting an indigenous Family and see how they work with the weaving process making beautiful rugs! They still keep the old traditions which is been passed generation by generatios using natural dyes from diferent elements sunch as the cochinilla insect, some flowers, roots, seeds, and more for all the colors they work with.
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Mercado TlacolulaWe love Tacos! One of the special things in this market are the Barbacoa Tacos. They are soo delicious and we will try some tacos of Goat and sheep with a good salsa and fresh water. (Food is included in this stop)
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Two activities with a Traditional Oaxacan Cook! We will visit the house of a native family and eat with them but before... We will work out all the food we have ate. The first activity is a chocolate workshop, we will toast the cacao seeds on the comal and grind them in the Metate stone to prepare tradicional oaxacan chocolateand enjoy it with a piace of bread, we also will learn about the cosmovision of the Cacao in the zapotec culture. After that we will try three different types of Oaxacan Tamales, fresh made by this family. (Both activities are included on the price)
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Santiago MatatlanDessert for the end! We will visit a traditional Paleque (distillery) to see the whole process of the mezcal since how the cook the plant, the fermentation process, destilation and more. Finally you will have a Mezcal tasting which is included on the price. We save the mezcal at the end because this place has a beautiful view of the sunset and agave fields. Salud!
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OaxacaBACK TO YOUR HOTEL We would do 1 hour approximately from the Mezcal spot to Oaxaca city.
If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.