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Mexican Cooking Lessons

 

City Tour

 

Rugs, Mezcal

& River Tour

 

Craft Villages

& Mezcal Tour

 

Bike Tour

around

Monte Albán

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take advantage to be in Oaxaca, where cooking is specially delicious.

At HOSTAL POCHON you can learn how to make Mexican food and discover Oaxacan special flavors. We selected for you traditional Mexican dishes: Chilaquiles, Chile relleno, Tacos dorados,...

Also vegetarian dishes are available.

 

 

 
 

Classes include shopping at the local market to find the ingredients, preparation of your lunch by yourself and then eat your meal. Also at the end you will get written recipes to make it again back home.

 

 

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Walk through the colonial streets taking in the famous sights, the bustling markets.

 

Indulge your senses with the aroma of the famous chocolate and taste of Mezcal.

 

 

 

This daily tour will take you to the most interesting places that Oaxaca have to offer you. Combination of sight seeing, art, culture and liquor.

 

We will go to Teotitlán del Valle to see the hand made rugs with a comprehensive demonstration of making natural colors, prepare the wool and final step, the weaving. The rugs are made in the same traditional way since hundreds of years ago.

 

Then we will go to Matatlán to visit a Mezcal distillery and experience the traditional mescal making. You will be able to feel and smell the Mezcal spirit.      Of course tasting the final product is one of the important part of the demonstration.

During this tour you will also have the chance to see one of the oldest tree in the world, more than 2,000 years old  and also one of the widest 52 meters around in the village of Santa María El Tule.

 

 

This tour end by an amazing place, a river with petrified waterfalls where you will be able to relax, swim and have a snack.

 

This is one of the most popular tour we have to offer. Book it in advance with HOSTAL POCHON and you will get up to a 10% discount.

 

 

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Now you have the opportunity to discover the making processes of the different Oaxacan handicrafts: Potteries, “Alebrijes” (small wooden figures painted), Wool rugs.

You will be able to assist to a demonstration in each village and know more about same traditional making transmitted since hundreds of years ago: San Bartolo Coyotepec, Teotitlán del valle and San Antonio Arrazola.

 

 

Book your tour in advance with HOSTAL POCHON in advance and you will get up to 10% discount.

 

 

 

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You want to enjoy a bike ride around Monte Albán and visit the villages around town.

 

This tour around Oaxaca will allow you to know more about Oaxaca and its surroundings. You will have the chance to visit the villages, meet the people and the artists.

 

Oaxaca is one of the richest handicraft state of Mexico. During the tour you will discover villages where they make orange and green potteries, « Alebrijes » small wooden figures painted.

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

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