Schedule: 9am-7pm

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation service (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (2 hours each way)

• Quick breakfast of antojitos, little local snacks at our favorite roadside comedor

• Cooking class at a mezcal ranch which grows agaves as well heirloom varieties of corn, squash, and beans. Our teacher will show us how to make regional dishes with ingredients grown on site such as següeza, amarillo, and hand made tortillas

• Enjoying the lunch we cook

• 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

• Learn about and see the biodiversity of different types of agaves used to make mezcal

• Tasting of traditional mezcal made on site

• A chance to purchase mezcal directly from the producers (price not included), our help packing it for travel

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to future community youth center