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If you happen to be in Oaxaca City between 31 October and 2 November, you won’t want to miss the Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos). One of the most important customs of this celebration is to visit the graves of departed loved ones and take them flowers, candles, food or other things they […]

If you are in Oaxaca City on a Sunday, take a shared taxi ride to Tlacolula from the baseball stadium.Every Sunday, Latin America’s largest and longest-running market is held here.Tlacolula has been a trading hub since the Zapotec Empire, and today, vendors from all over the valley come here to sell their wares.It’s a sprawling

After a day of adventures, hang out in the huge open square of Plaza de La Danza to taste some interesting flavours of local ice cream.Ice cream in Oaxaca is not as creamy as you might expect.It has a coarse texture, more like “granita” because of the ice crystals found in it, but this does

If you are in Oaxaca City on a Sunday, take a shared taxi ride to Tlacolula from the baseball stadium.Every Sunday, Latin America’s largest and longest-running market is held here.Tlacolula has been a trading hub since the Zapotec Empire, and today, vendors from all over the valley come here to sell their wares.It’s a sprawling

If you enjoy Oaxacan cuisine, a fun thing to do in Oaxaca is to take a cooking class. Local chefs will teach you how to prepare several local dishes and usually includes free snacks and drinks to ease those hungry stomachs while you whip up your culinary masterpiece.Numerous cooking classes are available throughout Oaxaca City with

Did you know that chocolate was first used exclusively by the Mayan and Aztec nobility?They blended the cocoa bean with water and spices to make a bitter hot drink, the predecessor of what we know as hot chocolate today.Oaxaca is famed for its excellent version of this beverage so use this as the perfect excuse

Sometimes all you need to feel clean is a good sweat, right?Experience this by participating in a temazcal ceremony, a unique thing to do in Oaxaca.The Temazcal ceremony is performed to cleanse the body of negative toxins and has been practised in Mexico for thousands of years.It takes place in a sauna-like hut heated by

ith 900 different plant species calling Oaxaca home, learn more about this region’s rich biodiversity at the city’s Botanical Gardens. Visiting the gardens is only permissible via a guided tour and English tours take place every day, Monday to Saturday, lasting two hours.The tour will help you understand how deeply the local ecosystem and the

Mexico is full of beautiful churches, but in Oaxaca City, one of Mexico’s most iconic churches is Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzman. This 16th-century Baroque church is beautiful inside and out.Almost every surface inside the church is decorated with 3D relief using elaborate gilding and painted scenes.From the outside, the church’s intricate façade gives

You won’t fully appreciate the sights if you’re walking about on an empty stomach and this is where Oaxaca City really provides, with its many bustling markets, just waiting to be explored on a gastronomic safari.One of the liveliest and most well-known markets is Mercado Benito Juarez.If you’re looking for traditional items from Oaxaca, this is