INCLUDED IN ALL FOOD OF THE GODS (LAND) PACKAGES:

• Airport to hotel transfer (one way)
• 7 night hotel accommodations
• Daily breakfast, including a get-acquainted welcome breakfast
• Five Restaurant Dine-Arounds -- a variety of delicious dinners at Oaxaca's finest restaurants
• Lecture and presentation of Oaxaca's Chiles
• Botanas and Bebidas: Cocktails and Hors D'oeuvres, Oaxacan style

    **** Holiday Inn Oaxaca     $689 standard room
                                $779 jr suite
    **** Hostal de La Noria     $919 standard room
                               $1059 jr suite
                               $1269 deluxe suite
   ***** Hotel Victoria         $889 standard room
                               $1039 garden room
                               $1249 jr suite
   ***** Camino Real           $1279 exterior room
                               $1369 interior room
                               $1359 club room exterior
                               $1479 club room interior

OPTIONAL TOURS, EVENTS, COOKING CLASSES:

• Cultural walking tour of Oaxaca's historic center. The tour gives you an overview of the many historic attractions and prepares the visitor for further exploration. $20/pp
• Chocolate Making The first shipment of chocolate to Europe in 1502 came from Oaxaca. See the ago-old process of chocolate-making with Sra. Juana Aragon Limited attendance. $25/pp
• Oaxacan Ice-cream and Exotic Fruit Tasting Hand made ice creams created from rose petals, prickly pear or pomegranate and with fruits like chico zapote, mango, papaya, and strawberries. $20/pp
• Market Tour of the Benito Juárez Market. See chiles, spices, cheeses, fruits, flowers of Oaxaca, chocolate-making. $20/pp
• Tour of Monte Albán Tour the spectacular hilltop Zapotec archaeological site, one of the most important sites in Mexico. $25/pp
• Seminar on pre-Hispanic Herbs. Señora Banderas, from a village near Puerto Angel, speaks about pre-Hispanic and present uses of medicinal plants and herbs. $20/pp
• A Walk in the Clouds. For avid hikers; visit the broad valleys and soaring mountains of the Sierra Norte. Walk into mixed pine-oak forests classified by the World Wildlife Fund as being the richest and most varied on earth. The hike takes place at approximately 10,000 feet above sea level. Includes lunch. $75/pp
• Mitla/Tule/Mescal Tour. Visit the Mitla archeological site (Zapotec culture) known for its geometric mosaics. See the 2000-year old Tule tree. We will visit a Maguey plantation and taste the Mezcal made from the plant. $30/pp
• Zapotec Weaving Village Tour A small group tour of the Zapotec weaving village of Teotítlan del Valle. The artisans are famous for their carpets. The weaving skills have been passed down through families for generations. You will see the plants the produce indigo blue dye and the nopal cactus where weavers cultivate cochinilla bugs to produce the red cochineal dye. There will be a spinning, dying and weaving demonstration and the opportunity to purchase some of the richly colored rugs produced here.
• Visit the Craft Villages of San Bartolo Coyotepec, Ocotlán de Morelos, and San Martín Tilcajete. Oaxacan black pottery, exotic cutlery, wood carvings, market day, and more. Lunch outdoors at La Capilla included. $50/pp
• Guelaguetza. Dinner and folkloric music and dance performance in a 16^th century chapel at the Camino Real Hotel. $35/pp
• Cooking Classes Classes are conducted by Iliana de la Vega, Reyna Mendoza, and Alejandro Ruiz $70/pp per class
• Empanada Class with Sra. Juana Arragón. $45/pp
• Salsa Class with Sra. Ofelia Banderas. Learn traditional ways of making authentic salsa from basic fresh ingredients. $35/pp