Deep Dives Package Trip

EXPLORE THE DIVERSE DEPTHS OF OAXACA.

ONE PRICE. COUNTLESS MEMORIES.

Our small group package trips offers our guests a professionally curated and fully customizable itinerary of cultural tours connecting you with the extraordinary people, places and processes behind the cultures which makes Oaxaca so singular and enthralling. Our immersive experiences will take you deep into the fascinating realms of old world cuisine, ancestral artisanal crafts, and local traditions. You will sip mezcal in Oaxaca’s wildlands alongside its producers, step into two centuries of living history with a family of handwoven rug makers and enjoy the region’s profound culinary culture from roadside eateries and bustling mercados to leafy garden patios to upscale downtown dining rooms.

  • FOOD:

    We will delve into Oaxaca’s culinary wonderland from street food in its historico centro to open air lunches in its countryside. Our quest for the next bite will have us pulling up plastic stools at curbside taco stands, squeezing into busy food markets and kicking back in cozy homestyle restaurants. There will be corn masa tortillas sizzling on the comal, steaming handmade tamales and complex moles whose flavors have no end.

  • MEZCAL:

    The mezcal community wraps around the globe, from agave cocktails bars in Tokyo to cozy mezcalerias in San Francisco, but its anchor will always be in Oaxaca - at the palenques sprinkled across its wildlands. We will visit mezcaleros at their distilleries, to witness the ongoing lineage of their family traditions, taste some of the region’s finest mezcals and experience a most memorable day in the heart of the mezcal world.

  • CULTURE:

    Many regions across Oaxaca are renowned for the unique crafts which define their communities. Handwoven tapetes in Teotitlan de Valle, alebrije sculptures from Tilcajete, mezcaleros across the Valle Central. On our personalized tours, it will be our honor to share time with master artisans and learn how their magnificent work is woven into the fabric of their culture.

The Deep Dives package price includes daily private transportation and airport shuttle services, boutique hotel accommodations, welcome dinner and cocktail party, all expenses during our daily excursions, various meals during your stay, and a fabulous farewell dinner party.

TAKE A DEEP DIVE WITH US

SAMPLE ITINERARY: Oaxaca City

Day 1: Off The Plane and Into the Deep End

  • Bienvenidos! Welcome to Oaxaca.

  • Pick up at OAX Airport. Private transportation into town.

  • Check into a hotel in Historico Centro.

  • Welcome cocktail party with gorgeous rooftop views of the city. 

  • Dinner at El Escapulario where Chef Ester will serves iconic Oaxacan dishes in her sweet homestyle setting. Pours of her house mezcal often arrive before the food.

  • Your first night in Oaxaca. Rest up or rock out? It’s your call.  

Day 2: Go with your Gut

  • Enjoy a mellow morning on your own after a long travel day.

  • Depart the hotel for a city walking tour of the historico centro. Bring a healthy appetite for stellar street food, creative culture and local libations. Our stomachs will lead the way.  

  • We will visit beloved taco and tamales stands, art studios of local legends and pass through the Zócalo on our way to cold beers, fresh seafood and grilled meats in the downtown mercados.

  • Wrap up our afternoon at a renowned local mezcalería to rest our feet and cool off with pours of small batch, traditional mezcals.

Day 3: Woven into the Culture, Rooted in the Land

  • Enjoy a casual breakfast at a local cafe.

  • Visit the small town of Teotitlan de Valle for a presentation by a fifth generation family of tapete makers on the ancestral techniques used in creating this village’s iconic handwoven wool rugs and bags.

  • A home style lunch of indigenous ingredients, fresh masa tortillas and fire roasted molcajete salsas prepared for us by a local family. 

  • Enjoy a private palenque tour and guided mezcal tasting led by maestro Gonzalo Martínez Sernas of Macurichos Mezcal at his family’s generations-old distillery in the legendary mezcal town of Santiago Matatlán.

Day 4: The Old World in Modern Times

  • Start our day off with a light breakfast in a nearby bakery.

  • Venture to San Martín Tilcajete to the home workshop of a local alebrije artist as they display their techniques for crafting these iconic colorful wooden figures of Oaxacan folk art. 

  • Lunch in the dreamy garden patio of Almuuuu restaurant, with classic Oaxaqueño dishes masterfully prepared with wood-fired techniques and locally grown ingredients. 

  • Visit Santa Catarina Minas and the palenque of mezcalero Julian Mendoza who is continuing the rare, ancestral tradition of clay pot distilling. We will drink deeply from his vast library of mezcals with the wild Oaxacan landscape as our backdrop.

  • Dinner at Labo Fermento, the innovative and acclaimed restaurant that, in both flair and flavors, melds Asian and Oaxaca inspirations with simple, creative elegance.  

Day 5: Hasta Luego

  • Warm goodbyes at the hotel before your private transfer to OAX airport.

  • Adios…for now.

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