Plan your trip to Oaxaca
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Ideas for Oaxaca
A colonial center, Zapotec ruins, mezcal and markets in the valleys of southern Mexico.
- Santo Domingo the church and former convent in the center, now also a museum with a garden of native plants.
- Monte Albán the Zapotec city on a flattened mountaintop above the valley, listed by UNESCO with the city center.
- Markets Benito Juárez and 20 de Noviembre, side by side, for mole, chocolate and grilled meats in the smoke-filled grill aisle.
- Hierve el Agua mineral springs and rock formations that look like frozen waterfalls.
- Mitla ruins known for their stone fretwork mosaics.
- El Tule the giant cypress tree in Santa María del Tule, one of the widest trees in the world.
- Mezcal Oaxaca is the heart of mezcal country; small producers welcome visitors across the valleys.
Getting there
Fly into Oaxaca (OAX).
- OAX: About 10 min by road to the Zócalo in Oaxaca city, with no traffic (5 mi).
Drive times: OpenStreetMap routing, with no traffic.
Planning somewhere else?
- CancunCUNBeaches along the Hotel Zone, ferries to Isla Mujeres and day trips to Maya ruins, all close to the region's biggest airport.
- TulumTQO · CUNMaya ruins above the sea, cenotes for swimming and the Sian Ka'an reserve to the south.
- Cabo San LucasSJDThe arch at Land's End, beaches on the bay and whale season in winter, at the tip of the Baja California peninsula.
- Puerto VallartaPVRA seafront walk, the old town and boat trips around Banderas Bay on the Pacific coast.
- Mexico CityMEX · NLUMuseums, markets and some of the country's best food, with the pyramids of Teotihuacan a day trip away.
- Playa del CarmenCUN · CZM · TQOFifth Avenue, Mamitas Beach and the Cozumel ferry. This planner adds the airport van, the ferry and the penthouse we rent out.
- Somewhere elseAny city, any airport: type them in.
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