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¡Textiles, “Barro Rojo” and mezcal! Discover the ancestral Oaxacan processes

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Your first stop on this tour will be in the community of Tlapazola to visit a “Barro Rojo” pottery workshop where you will learn about the technique of making this craft preserved by the local women. Later, you will head to the town of Teotitlán del Valle to meet a family of wool rug weavers, who will show you the stages of the Oaxacan textiles of carding, spinning, dyeing and weaving the fiber into a work of art, whose design keeps old symbolisms of the Zapotec culture.

Finally, the tour ends in a palenque dedicated to the production of Mezcal, where you can learn about some varieties of agaves, the manufacturing processes and taste some varieties of the mythical and ancestral drink. This journey through ceramics, textiles and mezcal will take you approximately 5 hours.

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Victoria O.

September, 2022
Two Weeks in Mexico
Seamless transfers, excellent hotels particularly in Mexico city and Puebla, combined with various cultural and food tours. Particular highlights were the cultural/food tours in Mexico city and Puebla (also including the anthropology museum in Mexico city), and the rural tours in Oaxaca where we visited textile workshops, mescal producers and participated in a cooking class using traditional equipment. Also, although we didn't need it, the on call remote assistance was reassuring. I would definitely recommend Rutopia.Leer más Leer menos
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