Explore Oaxaca City: 10 Action-Packed Days

Explore Oaxaca City: 10 Action-Packed Days

An itinerary of 10 action-packed days dining and doing in amazing Oaxaca de Juarez. It includes: 1. Day-by-day top recommendations of places to visit and dining "musts" 2. More than 70 recommended things to do, eat, and see 3. Two detailed road trip guides for Hierve el Agua and San Martin Tilcajete. 4. Notes, insights, videos, photos, and more. Why Oaxaca de Juarez? Colorful and welcoming. Hip yet old world. Infused with the pride of Zapotec culture, yet embracing of modern Mexico’s foodie standards. Oaxaca de Juarez defies easy labels and is all the better for it. With one of the most charming Centros in all of Latin America, Oaxaca is unapologetically itself on every level. Majestic churches, historic buildings, stunning street art, indigenous gardens, massive markets, quirky small museums. . .Oaxaca has them all. Best of all, its undercurrent of edge and counterculture keeps this vibrant town from being too consumed by expat and digital nomad influence. Pretty and vibrant, yes. Blandly beautiful? Never.
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Table of Contents

1. Using This Guide

2. Itinerary: 10 Action-Packed Days (includes daily dining recommendations)

3. Centro Neighborhoods

5. The Perfect Overnight Road Trip

6. The Perfect Day Trip

7. More Great Dining

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My free and for-purchase itineraries and guides are action-packed and lean heavy on wayfaring (enjoying destinations by foot) and road trips. I specialize in travel for active, 40+ traveling couples who neither spend extravagantly nor journey on a shoestring. I know where to splurge and where to save, and will advise on the best way to thrive when on the road. I live and work from abroad 8 months of the year with my husband, Adam. The other four, I explore every last hiking trail in my home of Sedona, Arizona, USA. FYI — we rent out our home nightly via Airbnb and VRBO. Check out at sedona-vacation-home.com. I'm food-motivated and passionate about weird, little museums; explore by foot whenever I can — clocking miles on pavement, sand, and single track in places as diverse as Kyoto, Cartagena, and Tallinn. I balance my travel time returning to favorite spots (ANYWHERE in Japan; Oaxaca, Mexico; Siem Reap, Cambodia) and peeling back the layers of somewhere new. I'm available for hire as a travel consultant and I will continue producing very opinionated travel guides here on Thatch and publish my travel musings via posts and stories on Instagram via @wayfarerdawn and on my website wayfarerdawn.com.
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Digital Map
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72 places
72 hand-picked places with notes from the creator
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Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
Oaxaca, Centro, Oaxaca, Mexico
Oaxaca, Mexico
Mexico
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