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Get a feel for how the local people live on this wonderful off-the-beaten-path half-day excursion. Designed to provide you with a glimpse into Mexican life and traditions, your laid-back tour starts when you board your air-conditioned transportation at the pier, for a scenic drive through the delightful Huatulco countryside. One of the first stops of the day takes you to Piedra de Moros, a charming community kitchen. Here, you will see around the spot a nopal (prickly pear cactus) small plantation. Learn how to make perfect corn and cactus tortillas before having the opportunity to taste three different taco preparations. In this same location you´ll meet a local artisan that will show you the process of handmade elaboration of clay bricks where you´ll have the chance of participating in the process.

Crossing the street, explore the medicinal plants garden and its wide variety of curative herbs, many of those known from centuries, citrus and banana plants can be observed too. Next stop will be Vicente Guerrero community where you´ll have the chance to meet a local family that will show you around their house and share how they live in a regular day. Artisans from Teotilan del Valle town will have a space here where they´ll show you their rugs that are famous worldwide for their sophisticated pre-Hispanic designs and long lasting. Enjoy a demonstration of how they start carding fine wool fibers continue to dyeing them with natural ingredients, especially the cochineal, the insect that is one of the world most colorfast red dyes, by combining it with lime, baking soda, etc., the Zapotec Indians make some 20 different tones and colors.

At both of these stops you will be able to buy gifts, including embroidery. This fascinating cultural tour continues to our last stop: Rancho Tangolunda community where you´ll meet one of the former families that inhabited Huatulco before the tourist development started. They will share with you part of their story during this transition and delight you with some tamales as they show you how they were prepared before heading back to port, enjoying the stunning coastline vistas and Sierra Madre mountain range in the distance.