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Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (2 hours each way) all transportation during overnight stay

• All mentioned activities

• 5 meals (does not include dinner on Day 2)

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Overnight accommodations at Rancho Los Nahuales, double occupancy rooms

• Donation to future community youth center

Activities planned:

• Visit to a traditional mezcal palenque, learning about the process and history of the mezcal of the region directly from the producing families who have been distilling their mezcal in copper for 4 generations, learning about and see the biodiversity of different types of agaves used to make mezcal. Tasting of traditional mezcal made on site

• Visit to nighttime flower market to buy supplies for our altar, including a trip to a 100 year old fireworks store 

• Visit to a 125 year old bakery making the traditional pan de yema for the holiday

• Early morning rise to gather chapulines (grasshoppers) and biruxe (wild marigold) for our altar (dependent on whether there has been enough rain this year)

• Build our own altar and make mole negro tamales with a local family