Oaxaca: Mexico's Culinary and Cultural Heart

Oaxaca's food culture is one of Mexico's deepest and most celebrated, and the city's markets, street-food stalls, and restaurants offer a culinary education in moles, tlayudas, and Indigenous flavors worth crossing a continent for.

A journey out into mezcal country shows the full arc from agave heart to finished spirit, roasted and distilled the traditional way, with tastings along the road that make the smoke and craft impossible to forget.

Climbing to the hilltop city of Monte Alban puts you among two and a half millennia of Zapotec history, with sweeping valley views and a scale of ambition that makes the ancient world feel vivid and immediate.

The valley villages surrounding Oaxaca are home to weavers working backstrap looms, potters throwing distinctive black clay, and the painters of brilliantly colored wooden alebrije figures, a living tradition as vibrant as any gallery.

• • Accommodation throughout
• • Curated experiences & activities per itinerary
• • SXT concierge: planning, flights assistance & 24/7 support

• • International airfare
• • Travel insurance
• • Some meals & gratuities