Mitla, Tule, Hierve El Agua And Teotilán

The guide, Miguel, was very knowledgeable and witty. It was a busy day with just enough time to explore everything.

Angel was very friendly knowledgeable and professional. Great tour! He had very interesting stories and made ut fun.

It was a great experience. We had the chance to habe an AMAZING AND WELL PREPARED GUIDE NAMED MARTHA. She’s one of the best tour guides we have had in all of my travels around the world, honestly!

I would give more stars were it not for the fact that we were dropped off 6km from our hotel and told to find our own way back. This was in spite of me having proof that drop off and pick up points were the same. The tour guide refused to honour the agreement made with Viator.

This was an amazing tour, full of history and heart! Our guide, Angel, was not only just knowledgeable, but is committed to sharing the complexities of his culture, with so much love! I highly recommend this experience!

Out visit to Mitla et al was mixed. The locations were beautiful and interesting. However our driver was terrifying and our guide (Angel) egotistical and arrogant. I cannot recommend this tour although the locations are worth visiting.

By booking through Viator,I paid more than twice as much as anyone else AND they put me on a different trip for some reason. They did arrange for someone to drive me home before seeing site I’d already seen. You can purchase what you want from person in Oaxaca selling tours. I will not use Viator again.

Horrible experience, I would not recommend this tour. It all started when we had to go to lunch at a buffet restaurant. The food was not the best and the desserts tasted old and flavorless. The owner apparently was offended because my kids tried the desserts and did not eat it all. The owner told my husband “I don’t know how it’s in the United States but here we don’t waste food”. We then told the tour lady about what had happened. She basically brushed it off and told us not to think about it. We did not want to offend anyone but I was offended and it ruined my tour. If you like to be treated like you don’t matter then go ahead and go on this tour. I’ll I ask is for us to be treated with respect, I’m not asking for much.

It was overall a good day, loved the carpet making demonstration and Hugo was a great guide, knowledgeable and genuine.

Every place we visited was very interesting. I wish they had stopped at more historic churches and given us a bit more free time.

Mitla is amazing. A must see experience. And Pablo is a fantastic guide - very knowledgeable, interesting and patient. I never felt rushed.

The tour on 13 August, 2021, was quite good. The driver/guide was informative, but not real personable. He did a very good job though, having to share the info in both Spanish and English. The places we visited were great, especially the church that was having a wedding at the time. There was no water available during the trip and the stop for lunch (which was quite good and varied) was paid for by each customer. I had thought that a full day tour at USD $50 each would have had lunch provided. The rug weaving village stop was excellent and very educational. It was a full day with a lot of walking, but fortunately very few steps to climb. Another fine VIATOR tour, like the many others that we have done around the world.

Is offered as an English excursion. We were picked up by Jorge on time and then it was silence until El Tule. There Flor spoke and we got a very good explanation entirely in English, also the subsequent visit to the weaving mill and Mitla, where Flor gave very enthusiastic explanations both in Spanish and English. There was nothing to complain about here. Mitla is very basic as an archaeological site, but was ok. And then Flor suddenly said goodbye and the English-speaking accompaniment was finished. All the rest was done in Spanish and we were lucky that some of the Spanish speaking tourists were kind enough to translate into English. Hierve El Agua was at least more than worth it. Definitely recommended. Then there was a Mezcal company, which was also interesting, especially if you like that stuff. During the drive back there was therefore the necessary ambiance in the shack, partly thanks to the very loud music. Suddenly we were dumped somewhere in the center of Oaxaca with the announcement that this was the end of the drive and that we had to figure out our own way back to our hotel (long live Google maps). In short the trip was ok, but the guidance dropped some serious stitches.

Nuestra experiencia no fue la mejor, la descripción del recorrido en esta plataforma no es la que se vive en la vida real. No se visitan las cuevas (que estábamos muy emocionados por conocer), se hacen otras paradas adicionales que restan tiempo a las importantes, en el árbol del Tule no te acompaña el guía para explicarte qué estás viendo, la cata no es en Mezcaloteca, la explicación en Mitla dejó mucho qué desear, nuestro guía no estaba muy capacitado o certificado (los certificados portan gafete). Nuestro chofer y la señorita con la que nos comunicábamos siempre tuvieron la mejor actitud y disposición para ayudarnos, desafortunadamente la descripción del tour no es la que sucede en la vida real.

The tour was booked in English, but the group eventually consisted of Spanish and English speaking participants. Of course, this is not a problem at first, but you quickly realized that both groups had a completely different experience. While the "Spanish" group received all available information at the different stations, in my estimation less than half of this information was passed on to the "English" group. I would therefore not recommend the tour - at least for non-Spanish speaking tourists.

Al menos durante la pandemia pienso que las medidas de seguridad deben ser más fuertes. No deberían permitir que nadie esté dentro del vehículo que transporta a los participantes de la actividad sin mascarilla, en un ambiente tan cerrado como esos vehículos, con tantas personas, una sola persona contagiada sin duda contagia al resto por el tiempo de exposición sin ventilación. Esto debería aplicar para niños también, yo se que es muy difícil pero lamentablemente hoy los contagios a niños y por niños son los más frecuentes ya que no están vacunados, debemos cuidarnos entre todos. Por otro lado, no había buena comunicación con el guía, el solamente nos decía: ya llegamos, y yo no tenía idea a dónde, a cuál de todos los lugares nos estábamos dirigiendo. Además hubiera sido de valor saber que no es posible acercarse al árbol de Tule.