OAXACA
Oaxaca’s best days out.
The 9 dessert tours travellers book most around Oaxaca, with what each one costs, how long it runs and the operator you go with.
Taste Oaxaca cacao in a small-group, 2-hour class with 15–20 samples, cocoa-based toast, and a house drink in English.
Most Popular“Stay in one place. Lo g and a bit boring chat. Way too expensive for what it was. Snack at end could have been more substantial.”
Make Oaxacan chocolate from roasted cacao to your own hot drink, with a clay comal, hand-peeling, and tasting plus cocoa toast.
“Super fun and informative workshop. We learned a lot about cacao’s history and production. We sampled different beans with different styles of production, washed vs fermented, sampled different ground powders, and then roasted and ground our own cacao, which we made into hot chocolate. We got to keep the remainder of our ground chocolate as…”
Hands-on Oaxaca chocolate-making at Teolab. Learn cocoa basics, mold your own bars, taste samples, and take home 150g.
“It was excellent. The chef was charming, informative and fun. I would highly recommend.”
Taste 100% cacao through spicy Oaxacan chocolate, then learn and make your own ancestral drink in a one-hour artisan class.
“Ingrid was very knowledgeable about all aspects of chocolate. I was amazed at the tasting variety. She did a great job.”
1-hour Oaxaca chocolate class where you toast cacao, grind it into bars, then use it for simple mole and hot chocolate.
“What a fun and educational class this was!! We heated up cocoa beans and made actual chocolate to make hot chocolate and chocolate ice cream . We also learned how to make a simple mole with chocolate and it was all hands on with the instructor guiding us . At the end of the class…”
Make Oaxacan-style take-home chocolate in a small, hands-on class in Oaxaca City, led in English by Tomás.
“Making chocolate and after eating it. Also, knowing the history of chocolate, where is started and how they used it in the beginning.”
Hike to Santa Catarina Ixtepeji from Oaxaca’s hills, through pine forest, then warm up with handmade hot chocolate at the mirador.
“I had a lovely hike, all the way to the mirador. Marianna, my guide was very kind and friendly. It was just the two of us the whole hike, and we talked a lot and admired the mushrooms together, it was a beautiful and authentic experience in which I was accompanied with an incredible person…”
A 2.5-hour walk in Oaxaca Centro mixing art gallery visits, artist conversations, and local chocolate tastings with cocoa history.
“We loved it! The tour guides were locals with a great deal of knowledge of the local art scene and chocolatiers. The community workshops were a great example of collective action and innovation.”
Art galleries plus Oaxaca cacao tastings on a 2.5-hour small-group walk, with coffee, chocolates, and a guide who keeps it moving.
“Fantastic walk around town seeing art galleries and eating chocolates! Pablo was knowledge and worked hard to make sure the whole family mom, dad, and 2 teenagers really enjoyed the experience- definitely recommend!”
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