Oaxaca, Mexico
Trip Highlights
Our Oaxaca Community
Handcraft and artisans is the epitome of the community you will find here.
Suggested Reading:
FICTION
The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
by Tony Johnston, Tomie dePaola (Illustrator)
NON FICTION
Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
Oaxaca Al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy
“El que con lobos anda, a aullar se enseña.”
Your experience
What you will do and learn.
An immersion in the handcraft of Mexico is diverse from culinary to textile. This creative cultural immersion will give you a variety of aspects that make Mexico and Mexico City an amazing layering of old and new.
Where we stay:
We will stay at a lovely boutique hotel. Although this is a small group experience, you'll have a private room to retreat to at the end of the day.
Program Itinerary
Other trip details:
Early history:
"Between approximately 1500 and 500 B.C., the Zapotecan city of San José Mogote in what is now the state of Oaxaca was the largest and most important settlement in the region. Historians estimate that during the pre-colonial period, Oaxaca was home to 16 separate cultures, each with its own language, customs and traditions. However the Zapotecas and Mixtecas constituted the largest and most sophisticated societies with villages and farmlands located throughout the region.
Did you know? The Zapoteca were skilled in astronomy and excavation, and leveled the top of a local mountain around 450 B.C. and created the ceremonial center now called Monte Albán. One of the most densely populated cities in Mesoamerica, Monte Albán is estimated to have had 18,000 Zapotecan residents at its peak." (history.com)
Other cool things to do:
OAXACA'S ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN is a botanical garden in Mexico that sits on 2.32 acres of the former monastic grounds of the Church of Santo Domingo. Officially opened in 1998, this ethnobotanic garden is an example of Oaxaca’s unparalleled biodiversity, particularly its cacti variations. More information.
Travel Arrangements:
AIP will email you when it is time to get your ticket. We will allow much planning in advance, and will this email ninety or more days before your trip. We will send more specific details once you sign up for the trip. You will be met at the airport, and we will all go to the hotel together.
Weather:
You'll experience moderate temperatures in this area in fall. The evenings do cool off.