Viva la Guelageutza !
June 13-22 and June 23 - August 1, 2004
Sample Tour Schedule
Join Wild Wood Art Café and owner Joan Griffith on our summer tours to Oaxaca Mexico, June 13-22 and June 23 - August 1, 2004 !
Our group, which is always kept to less than 15, will stay in accommodations selected for your safety, comfort and tranquility. The hacienda in Huayapam sits in the astonishingly beautiful Oaxacan valley, and has a view you will not soon forget. (On our recent "Day of the Dead" tour, we had a rain shower, giving us the lovely double rainbow you see in our photo at top right).
There will be many opportunities for shopping in Oaxaca and its outlying areas. We will explore the workshops of artisanas whose art is rendered in cotton, wool, wood, metals, paper, and various clay media.
So contact us soon if you wish to come along, as the limited number of spaces available are already filling up. Come and see magnificent Oaxaca in the full flowering of its lush summer beauty ! You'll understand why a favorite saying of the Zapotecs is: We are not here for a long time, but we are here for a good time!
Our tours are rather active, and are greatly enjoyed! See a sample schedule from our most recent tour (left).
Rates are based on double occupancy, but there are 2 single rooms available for people with medical restrictions. Our price includes lodging, all meals (except a few which are taken at local restaurants), all admission fees, and all local, ground transportation. The price does not include travel insurance or airfare to Oaxaca and back, but please contact us and we will help you with obtaining a flight at reasonable rates.
We have cooks who prepare 3 delicious meals per day; however there will also be the opportunity for us to eat out, as well as to shop together for indigenous foods, and to prepare & enjoy them together ! (If you have dietary restrictions - and ours is a restaurant which specializes in helping people with dietary restrictions - please make us aware of them as early as possible.)
Past tours have been enormously successful. Read the following comments by our participants:
"This celebration, which has been held for centuries, includes activities all over the city, but the events most eagerly awaited are the two presentations of the dances... Music, colorful dress, enjoyable dances, and humor all join in this wonderful spectacle. It is an experience of a lifetime to be able to view this ancient traditional celebration." (Terry Tannert, of Mexicarte Museum, Austin, and of Austin Friends of Folk Art)
"The best tour I have ever been on" Andrew Small (Guelaguetza tour, 2003)
For more information about Joan Griffith, please click on the link title below:
If you need more information about
Oaxaca Valley,
you will find a very informative website at Wild Wood Art Cafe.
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