Oaxaca City

Tour Monte Albán, Hierve el agua, Teotitlán Del Valle and Mezcal

Oaxaca City, Mexico
Hierve el Agua Private Full Day Tour with Mezcal Preparation

From $286.76

per group (up to 3)

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up to 24 hours before the experience starts (local time)

  • 8 hours
  • Pickup offered
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English

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Overview

    What's Included

    • Private transportation
    • Air-conditioned vehicle
    • Bottled water
    • Souvenirs
    • Lunch
    • Does not include tips or admissions.
    • Brunch

    Meeting and Pickup

    Pickup points

    Select a pickup point

    Pickup details

    At the end of any of the tours we can leave you at your hotel, airbnb or wherever you like. (downtown area of the city of Oaxaca).

    What To Expect

    Zona Arqueologica de Monte Alban

    2 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

    Teotitlan del Valle

    1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

    Tlacolula de Matamoros

    1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

    Santiago Matatlan

    1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

    Hierve el Agua

    2 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

    Additional Info

    • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
    • Not wheelchair accessible
    • Stroller accessible
    • Infant seats available
    • Not recommended for travelers with back problems
    • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
    • No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
    • Most travelers can participate
    • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

    Cancellation Policy

    You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

    • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
    • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
    • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
    • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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    sunainaiyer
    Our guide was very friendly, patient and knowledgeable. We had a great time seeing Hierve al Agua, Mont Alban, and the surrounding countryside. The car was air conditioned and comfortable. Two thumbs up!

    Reviews

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    Great Experience
    Donnarae_D, Apr 2024
    It was a great experience! Our driver was very knowledgeable on our drive to our destinations. The car was immaculate and we would use this company and driver again
    Excellent experience
    natdonikian, Apr 2024
    We had an excellent experience. Jesus was in contact with us a few days before the trip to make sure that everything was clear. On the day of the tour, our driver Irvin came to pick us up from the hotel with a beautiful new and comfortable car (we got a bigger car than initially expected). Irvin was super polite, spoke excellent english and was very accommodating and knowledgable. We had Julio as our guide in Monte Alban that we picked up on our way. He was also great and you could feel who much he loved talking about his country and through his eyes we discovered Oaxaca. All in all a great experience which is well worth doing. Thank you very much!
    Awesome tour
    Kathleen_S, Apr 2024
    Our driver, Daniel, was very knowledgeable about the sites we saw. The tor of Monte Alban was eye-opening and Teotitlan weavers were very skilled. Highly recommend.
    Great tour of sites sorrounding Oaxaca City
    Stephen_R, Apr 2024
    This tour gave a great overview of some of the most impressive sights around Oaxaca city. It was fantastic to be able to visit Monte Alban, a textile artisan, and the pools at Hierve el Agua all within one day. Our driver, Daniel, was informative about Oaxacan culture and receptive to our requests to customize the trip. He also made some great suggestions for places to stop along the way. My only wish would have been to have more time to explore Monte Alban - it just just such an amazing archeological and cultural site.
    Great experience
    sunainaiyer, Mar 2024
    Our guide was very friendly, patient and knowledgeable. We had a great time seeing Hierve al Agua, Mont Alban, and the surrounding countryside. The car was air conditioned and comfortable. Two thumbs up!
    Wonderful day
    Gary_L, Mar 2024
    The driver was wonderful. We had a most wonderful day. Every stop was great Everyone visiting Oaxaca needs to visit these sights
    Response from Host, Mar 2024
    Thank you 🙏🏻
    Wonderful experience! Amazing guide!
    Corinne_C, Mar 2024
    This tour was incredible thanks to our amazing guide, Irvin. He was very patient and understanding with us and our 5 month old baby. He was very well informed and provided so much information about Oaxaca as we drove. I would 100% book another tour with him.
    Response from Host, Mar 2024
    Muchas gracias, Irvin es un gran integrante de nuestro equipo que poco a poco va ganando experiencia. Sin duda estos comentarios nos ayudan a saber que está haciendo las cosas bien. Muchas gracias y hasta pronto.
    Great tour, great guide
    Martin_B, Feb 2024
    Monte Alba and the textiles were the highlights of this trip for me. Our tour guide was also very nice, on time, professional, and knowledgeable about the area. Would absolutely recommend this tour.
    Response from Host, Mar 2024
    Thank you. 🙏🏻
    Wonderful!
    Romita_J, Feb 2024
    Amazing experience with our wonderful guide Juan Reyes. Our best guide during our week in Mexico. Extremely knowledgeable and friendly. The highlight of course was Monte Alban- an extraordinary place
    Response from Host, Mar 2024
    Juan is amazing jejejeje Greetings. Thank you
    Great day
    Frances_R, Feb 2024
    Our guide and driver for the day was really friendly and helpful and found us an excellent guide to Monte Albán which was fascinating. Other parts of the trip also good but MA was the highlight
    Response from Host, Mar 2024
    Nos hubiera encantado obtener 5 estrellas, pero eso nos ayuda a no entrar en zona de confort y dar siempre el máximo en nuestros servicios. Gracias por su comentario, saludos desde Oaxaca.
    Excellent
    Gina_S, Feb 2024
    Daniel and Julio were amazing. They were very accommodating. We will definitely come back. We visited amazing places
    Response from Host, Feb 2024
    Thank you so much, Daniel menciona that you’re one of the few good customers that have shown so real and the talk with him about metal music and politics was epic…
    Just a driver
    deanna_c, Jan 2024
    The experience depends on the tour guide... Our driver was simply a driver and not a tour guide... he was not engaging or interesting... He simply drove us from place to place...
    Response from Host, Mar 2024
    Lamento mucho leer eso, los guías dependen mucho de las primeras reservaciones. Las reservaciones a últimas horas no nos dejan muchas opciones, lamentablemente nuestro tour guide no la andaba pasando bien ese día. Sentimos mucho esa situación pero lamentablemente no quedó en mis manos. Si regresan a Oaxaca, me encantaría atenderte personalmente. Saludos.
    Our best day in Oaxaca!
    Jocelyn_M, Jan 2024
    We had such a wonderful time on this tour! Our tour guide Juan was incredible - so knowledgeable, so fun and funny, we loved every minute. I’d recommend this tour to anyone!!
    So much fun!
    Pamela_M, Jan 2024
    Our tour guide, Irvin, picked us up right on time and even waited for us right outside our hotel. All the destinations were amazing. The ruins were educational and breathtaking. Our guide there, Juan, was super knowledgeable and very entertaining because you could tell he loved his country and his work. We joined another couple for the ruins tour and it was great because everyone had different questions along the way. The textile tour was right up our alley. My sister and I love art and the process and it was a privilege to see how they had been creating beautiful rugs and works of art for 4 generations!!! The petrified waterfall and pools were beautiful and refreshing to swim in. We don’t drink Mezcal, but we went on the quick tour and learned about the age old way of making the spirit. Very involved and interesting! Mid-day we stopped for lunch and the food was delicious. We even tried fried crickets. Pretty good actually! The whole experience was amazing. A long day full of so much beauty and blessing. Irvin was easy-going and tailored the tour to our needs. Muchas gracias to the whole team!
    A long, but satisfying day with a pleasant driver
    Sunny_W, Jan 2024
    There were three of us, so we decided to book a private tour to Monte Alban and Hierve el Agua. Our driver Daniel was a lovely, interesting guy who showed up on time with an impeccable vehicle. We enjoyed our time with him. The tour included a stop in a weaving workshop in Teotitlan, which was a bonus, and a mezcal tasting, which we skipped because we were taking things slow and we ran out of time. There was a very good guide waiting for us (by the company's prior arrangement) at Monte Alban. Interesting place, as always. Having gone there twice, once with a guide and once without, a guide is definitely a good investment. Teotitlan included a perfunctory but interesting presentation by the shop owner about yarn spinning, dye making (fascinating) and the weaving process that really brought home how complex it all is, and why woven goods are often so expensive. The products for sale were stunning. Hierve el Agua - well, you can read about it anywhere. If you like that sort of thing (and we do), it's fantastic. The driver dropped us outside the ticket office, and came to pick us up when we called to say we were done. Home around 7:30 (after a 9am start). Basically we were supplied with a competent driver in a nice vehicle, a pre-arranged tour (Monte Alban) and a pre-arranged presentation/sales pitch. Presumably if we had had time for the mezcal tasting, it would have been similar to Teotitlan: an instructional sales pitch, followed by an opportunity to shop. Par for the course, but everything was managed professionally and as promised, so we have no complaints.
    Don’t take Viator in Oaxaca!
    salimbenes, Nov 2023
    Guide never showed! Getting refunded but lost a whole day and ruined out plans for our whole stay in Oaxaca!
    Response from Host, Nov 2023
    Your reservation did not appear and you never sent us the location of your hotel until an hour before.
    A must with private guide
    marina_g, Nov 2023
    Excellent day trip and private tour makes all the difference if you want to enjoy at your own pace. Jesus was polite and accommodating. Very knowledgeable. Great tour guide. We ended up skipping hierve el agua and substituted for other attractions which were closer.
    Response from Host, Nov 2023
    Muchas gracias, tratamos de que su visita a Oaxaca sea profesional, cómoda y segura. Cada uno de nuestros guías se encuentra en constante capacitación para ofrecer la mejor experiencia posible. Muchas gracias por visitarnos en Oaxaca
    Amazing and worth it experience. Get Alex to be your guide!
    RolandLouie_Y, Nov 2023
    We had got picked up at our hotel by our guide for the day. Alex was an amazing host. Taught us different things about Oaxaca. He showed us diff local places to eat that were sooo good. As a chef, I was truly impressed on the food places he took us and ones he recommended. The mezcal tasting we went to was unreal. From small mezcal makers to the big distilleries. We had a run in with the Federales which was odd but really put into the experience (we were fine and had a huge laugh about it). My group and I exchanged information with Alex and considered him a friend. I cannot recommend this experience enough. It was sooo worth it. Ask for Alex to be your guide!!! He’s the Chingón!
    Response from Host, Nov 2023
    Jajajaja gracias, Alex me dijo que le dio mucho gusto conocerlos que son unas personas increíbles y que se la pasó muy bien con ustedes en el tour de todo el día. Excelente día…!!
    Our tour guide was...
    Cheryl_R, Oct 2023
    Our tour guide was prepared, very knowledgeable, and so organized. You could tell that he had a strong grasp of historical and cultural facts for the places we visited. He created a wonderful experience for us.
    Beautiful Oaxaca!
    PERLA_S, Oct 2023
    Monte Albán is amazing! Don't miss this beautiful arqueological place. Hierve el Agua hasn't been taken care appropriately, the bathrooms were horrible and they ask for money! There's a pool without any maintenance. Still is a nice place but the managers just keep the money and they don't spend it un infrastructure. Mezcal was great but we missed the agave fields. The textile owners has very good quality products, a bit expensive but the presentation about the coloring make was amazing!

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