Guides for planning your trip

What we tell travelers before they arrive: how long to stay, when to come, and what you are actually going to see. Written by the people who drive these roads every week.

How many days in OaxacaThree days covers the city. Five lets you breathe. Seven opens the coast. Here is what honestly fits in each.Read the guide
Hierve el Agua guideIt is not a waterfall and the water is not hot. Here is what you are actually going to see, and how to see it well.Read the guide
Teotitlán del Valle guideWool dyed with insects, plants and minerals, woven on pedal looms by families who have done it for generations.Read the guide
Best time to visitThere is no bad season here, only different ones. What changes is the light, the crowds and what is happening in the streets.Read the guide
Day of the DeadNot a party and not a spectacle: a few days when families spend the night with the people they have lost, and the whole city rearranges itself around it.Read the guide
Monte Albán guideA whole mountaintop flattened by hand, two and a half thousand years ago, to build a city that watched over three valleys.Read the guide

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