On arrival, your private driver will be waiting to take you to your luxury accommodation where you’ll spend the next five nights. Throughout your stay in Mexico City, experience a variety of unique guided tours.

Discover Mexico’s Mesoamerican, Colonial and Revolutionary history while exploring the historic centre. You will also visit the Cathedral built upon the main Aztec temple by the Spanish conquistadors and the Palace of Fine Arts where you can explore its varied architecture.

Enjoy the delicious taste of the most famous dish in Mexico, tacos. With your guide, you will visit classic taco stands “taquerías” in four different neighbourhoods, San Rafael, Anzures, Roma, and Condesa. Accompanied by a mezcal master, a “mezcalillero”, savour the smoky, sweet and herbal flavours of traditional mezcales from regional Mexican towns.

This full-day experience takes you to one of the most important Mesoamerican sites in the Americas, Teotihuacán. With your expert guide, you will explore the archaeological zone while learning about the rituals, cosmology, beliefs and everyday lives of the Aztecs and the inhabitants of Teotihuacán before them.

Your private driver will be waiting to take you to your next accommodation where you’ll spend the next five nights.

Explore the city of Oaxaca with your personal guide. You will learn about the city’s cultural and historical heritage, while visiting markets, chocolate makers, museums and art galleries. You will also have a chance to try some of Oaxaca’s regional delicacies like hot chocolate and grasshoppers.

Starting in Mitla, explore its tombs and intricate mosaic work. Your journey then leads far away from the regular tourist mezcal hotspots, where you will meet real, quality producers of the traditional liquor who will teach you about the different distillation techniques used to make, what locals refer to as the elixir of the gods.

A special bread only made during the season of Dia de los Muertos, you will visit one of the 20 bakeries in town and learn what the shapes on the bread mean and why it is used so popularly throughout this holiday as an offering to the deceased.

With your private guide, visit Teotitlan Del Valle, possibly the prettiest village in the east side of the valley. You will enjoy a guided visit to Teotitlan Del Valle market followed by a visit to a Zapotec family home to see the process of how traditional woven rugs are made. Afterwards, you will enjoy a regional cooking class and lunch as a special guest while sharing the secrets of authentic Oaxacan cuisine.

On this full day tour, you’ll visit the sprawling central market of Oaxaca. You’ll see the locals hurrying to buy fresh bread and marigolds, candles, incense, sugar skeleton skulls and more traditional altar offerings for tonight’s observance.

You will learn the significance behind each aspect of the altar, such as what the levels, gifts, and offerings represent, and the cultural beliefs between the connection of life and death on this day.

First stop at San Miguel Cemetery for an inauguration event where magic explodes in the form of ten thousand candle flames.

Meet a local family and share dinner as special guests in their home. After midnight, you will witness how the entire town gradually fills the cemetery with flowers and candles, adorning the graves of their loved ones and sitting patiently by the tombstone all night waiting for their loved one’s arrival.

Explore the site with your guide who will lead you around, explaining what is known about Monte Alban and what still remains a mystery. After your visit, enjoy a traditional lunch in Oaxaca’s north valley and then witness the famous comparsas, a carnival-like event special to Dia de los Muertos where locals dress up in colourful costumes and parade through the streets.

You will visit the homes of local artisans in some of the small pueblos, such as San Bartolo Coyotepec and Santo Tomas Jalieza. Learn about the techniques involved in making black pottery, alebrijes, and backstrap loom weaving while meeting some of the most recognized artisans and craft-masters to witness and learn how they continue the traditions of making native crafts.

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