Day 0 · Oct 30
Arrive in Mexico City
Land, settle in, and shake off the journey. An easy first evening together — no agenda beyond meeting the other families and a good night's sleep.
Mexico City & Oaxaca
Day of the Dead 2026Experience a week of discovery as you explore Mexico City's museums and Día de los Muertos festivities, learn about Nahua history and traditions, immerse yourself in Oaxaca's vibrant markets and food culture, and finish with time to relax on the Oaxacan coast.
A look ahead
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Day by day
Eight days, paced for children. Each day is one or two anchors with room to breathe around them.
Day 1 · Oct 31
Mexico City, properly met
A real Mexican breakfast of chilaquiles, then the Museo de Antropología — one of the great museums of the world, and surprisingly gripping for kids. Tacos al pastor in Polanco, the Zócalo and Templo Mayor in the afternoon, and dinner in leafy Coyoacán.
Day 2 · Nov 1
Day of the Dead
Into the heart of the celebration: the Day of the Dead parade, then lunch at the vast Mercado de la Merced. In the afternoon, Xochimilco — the history of the floating chinampa gardens, told from a brightly painted trajinera as we drift the canals.
Day 3 · Nov 2
South to Oaxaca
A morning flight to Oaxaca City and straight into its flavor: the Mercado 20 de Noviembre, a chocolate-making demonstration, and hands in the work — grinding and whisking traditional Oaxacan hot chocolate and shaping pan de yema. The brave taste chapulines. Dinner in the center, and esquites in the evening.
Day 4 · Nov 3
Monte Albán and mole
Breakfast in the market, then up to Monte Albán for an introduction to Zapotec culture among the ancient terraces. Tlayudas for lunch, and an afternoon mole-making class — the long, patient, many-ingredient kind that children love to stir.
Day 5 · Nov 4
Made by hand
Another market breakfast, then into the crafts: a barro negro and alebrije class shaping black clay and painting wooden creatures, and a textile class on the loom. A night flight carries us to the coast at Huatulco.
Day 6 · Nov 5
The Oaxacan coast
A slow morning at the hotel, then a boat out to the quiet beaches of the Bahías de Huatulco. A goodbye dinner on the sand as the week winds down.
Day 7 · Nov 6
Home
A flight home from Huatulco, with a week of the real Mexico carried back in everyone's pockets.
What your children will take part in
Not a schedule of things to look at — a handful of things to do, beside the people who do them every day.
Make Oaxacan hot chocolate
Grind, whisk, and taste traditional hot chocolate, then shape pan de yema to go with it.
Stir a real mole
An afternoon in a cooking class building mole from many ingredients — slow, fragrant, and forgiving of small hands.
Shape black clay and alebrijes
A barro negro and alebrije class: pinch pots from famous black clay and paint a small wooden creature to bring home.
Sit at the loom
A textile class where children try the weaving that has clothed these valleys for centuries.
Drift the chinampas
A trajinera ride through Xochimilco's floating gardens, with the history told as you go.
Reserve your spot
A short form to hold your place and open a conversation. It isn't a final payment.