Monte Albán Tour: Culture, Art & Flavor

Embark on an exclusive exploration of Oaxaca’s cultural heritage with Oaxaca Dreams. Discover the enchanting beauty of Monte Albán and fall in love with Oaxaca through our unique and captivating tours.

Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Zona Arqueológica de Monte Albán - The most significant archaeological site in Oaxaca, representing the Zapotec culture.
  • Ex Convento de Cuilapam de Guerrero - Visit an incredible open church from the 16th century.
  • San Antonio Arrazola - Tour an Alebrije workshop to observe their creation process.
  • Frida de mi corazón - Meal time:…
What's Included
  • Comfortable air-conditioned transport
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Tips
Additional Information

Embark on an unforgettable journey to Monte Albán! Uncover the rich history of this ancient Zapotec city, tour alebrijes and black clay workshops, explore the stunning former convent of Cuilapam, and conclude with a delightful tasting at a genuine chocolate shop. Experience a day brimming with culture, art, and flavor with Oaxaca Dreams. Book your spot…

Location
Vicente Guerrero 105
Vicente Guerrero
A few steps from the zocalo, almost in front of Elektra. A plaza with black wood doors. "plaza comercial guerrero 105"
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Willian_l
Nov 20, 2024
Angel was excellent. - The variety of cultural stops we made on tour and Angel, our guide is bi-lingual. He never seemed agitated, was very caring of the many elderly customers.
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Mitsuyol
Nov 18, 2024
Excellent!!! - Excellent guide. Tour included Monte Albun, Mezcal tasting, balck pottery demo, wooden craft shop, and chocolate shop. The amazing lunch buffet was 225 peso. I was solo woman traveler. It was safe and wonderful experience. Highly recommend this tour. LOVED IT. Thank you!
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Safiya
Nov 16, 2024
Great tour - This was such a great tour! Thank you Luis and Benjamin! There was the perfect balance between interesting facts and history and freedom and time to explore. Luis is very personable, helpful and thoughtful. All the locations were chosen well and the van was comfortable. We got lucky with a good group too!
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W1374wvjacobm
Nov 9, 2024
Great day! - We had a great day on the Monte Albán tour led by Luis. Our guide Luis was very informative and shared great information about the history of Monte Albán in particular. We were picked up in a small yet comfortable van, and our group was just five including us (six including Luis), which was a great size. The drive to Monte Albán passes by quickly, and provides nice views of the valley on the way up. Once at Monte Albán, Luis guided us through the first portion sharing plenty of backstory for about 30 minutes or so. Afterwards, we were given 50 minutes to explore the ruins, which are spectacular. The site is beautiful, and hard to capture well without being there in person. The history of the Zapotec, followed by Mixteca, civilizations that lived there is very interesting. This is the site where an amazing burial tomb was discovered. Would definitely recommend separately going to the cultural museum next to Santo Domingo church someday after or before to see the skull covered in turquoise stones and the other excavated artifacts. Following Monte Albán, there was a quick Mezcal tasting, followed by lunch at a buffet style spot (try the tlayudas - similar to a large crispier quesadilla sort of), then to an Alebrijes workshop to see the artisans making some of them, and an opportunity to purchase some if you’d like. You can also find plenty of Alebrijes all over the city of Oaxaca if you’d prefer. The end of the tour was capped off with a visit to the Barro negra (black pottery) shop of Dona Rosa. We were shown an example of how they throw the pottery by hand, and the craftsmanship behind it. Overall a great day and worth seeing, especially to visit Monte Albán and learn of its history.
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Cindylievan0s
Sep 13, 2024
Interesting visit to Monte Alban, the alebrijes, the dark mud and the chocolate and ancient mezcal - We took this tour with the Guide Luis Garcia who gave us a lot of information about the place and was always very attentive in solving our doubts. The places we visited were very good and were interesting only the food from the buffet to which we were taken was not the best as they did not indicate what the stews were from and I had one to guess and apart some fried things were already cold, outside of that everything else was very good. Also another thing I noticed is that it is the only tour in which several did not return to their hotel so if they should make that clarification since at least when I hired they had told me that it included pickup and return to our hotel and many people were told that that was the last point in the chocolate factory and only another couple and us if they took us near the hotel because we were on our way. I don't know if that tour includes it or not, but hopefully they'll clarify that.
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Jorge
Sep 2, 2024
Great choice - A great experience, always attentive to any doubt of the points to visit each, always attentive and helpful, a wonderful experience
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Andy_d
Jul 21, 2024
Amazing Site and Trip. - Our tour guide, Angel was very friendly and knowledgeable about Monte Albán. We had a good time on this trip. Overall, we give it a 5 out of 5.
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Monicac1952
Jul 12, 2024
Oaxaca - They are guarantee in tour service, especially Monte Alban very complete all visits that are within this tour!!
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Melisa
May 31, 2024
Tours - Everything was excellent, punctuality when picking us up, the guides were super prepared and concerned about providing us with the best service, Ángel was an excellent guide. The tour is beautiful, the food was good. The truth is that I highly recommend them.
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One-womans-opinion
May 11, 2024
The Best - This wonderful tour was a fantastic value. Not only did we see the awesome ruins of Monte Alban, but we also went to two different artisanal workshops, getting a chance to see how carvers and painters create the delightful alibrijes and how Oaxacan black pottery is made, all for a very reasonable price. Our guide, Eloye, was knowledgeable and able to explain in both English and Spanish. He brought a lot of background information about Monte Alban that made us appreciate how sophisticated the people who built the site really were. Have to also give a thumbs up to our driver, who navigated some serious back roads with aplomb. We could not have been happier with the experience.
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