Guidebook for Oaxaca

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Guidebook for Oaxaca

Food Scene

Best Margaritas and Azteca Soup, great Mexican fusion food.
67 localnici recomandă
La Biznaga
907 Av Benito Juárez
67 localnici recomandă
Best Margaritas and Azteca Soup, great Mexican fusion food.
Quiet coffee shop with comfy couches, good music, and great coffee and bagels.
11 localnici recomandă
Cafébre
108 C. de Manuel Bravo
11 localnici recomandă
Quiet coffee shop with comfy couches, good music, and great coffee and bagels.
Fun lively space with good mezcal and delicious meals
60 localnici recomandă
La Popular
204 C. de Manuel García Vigil
60 localnici recomandă
Fun lively space with good mezcal and delicious meals
Delicious quesadillas, tacos, and breakfast foods made with heirloom corn. Great quality for a good price.
35 localnici recomandă
Itanoni, tortilleria y antojeria
513 Av Belisario Domínguez
35 localnici recomandă
Delicious quesadillas, tacos, and breakfast foods made with heirloom corn. Great quality for a good price.

Shopping

A great arts and crafts market with leather goods, hats, bags, fruit, veggies, meat, flowers, and everything in between. All the artesanal essentials from Oaxaca.
101 localnici recomandă
Piața Benito Juarez
S/N Las Casas
101 localnici recomandă
A great arts and crafts market with leather goods, hats, bags, fruit, veggies, meat, flowers, and everything in between. All the artesanal essentials from Oaxaca.
Have all the food essentials, including breakfast and lunch spots. Our favorite local market, besides El Pochote
68 localnici recomandă
Mercado Sánchez Pascuas
719 Calle de Tinoco y Palacios
68 localnici recomandă
Have all the food essentials, including breakfast and lunch spots. Our favorite local market, besides El Pochote
The biggest market in Oaxaca, and quite an experience! You can find everything from food to bed frames to live animals here. Do not bring valuables or too much money.
Mercado Central De Oaxaca
Juárez Maza
The biggest market in Oaxaca, and quite an experience! You can find everything from food to bed frames to live animals here. Do not bring valuables or too much money.

Parks & Nature

A large park, good for running, sitting on the grass, and watching events from tai chi to artesanal fairs. Friday hosts the local "tianguis" or farmer's market, where you will find everything from dresses to tacos.
101 localnici recomandă
El Llano
101 localnici recomandă
A large park, good for running, sitting on the grass, and watching events from tai chi to artesanal fairs. Friday hosts the local "tianguis" or farmer's market, where you will find everything from dresses to tacos.
Incredible ruins where you can learn about the history of the Oaxaca Valley.
105 localnici recomandă
Monte Albán
105 localnici recomandă
Incredible ruins where you can learn about the history of the Oaxaca Valley.
This is a "magic town" about two hours from Oaxaca City, and worth the trek! Beautiful hikes, cabins, horseback riding. A great place for a weekend escape.
9 localnici recomandă
Capulalpam de Méndez
9 localnici recomandă
This is a "magic town" about two hours from Oaxaca City, and worth the trek! Beautiful hikes, cabins, horseback riding. A great place for a weekend escape.

Drinks & Nightlife

Good live music, an open roof patio and downstairs dance floor, great drinks and amazing french fries!
78 localnici recomandă
Txalaparta Bar
208 Mariano Matamoros
78 localnici recomandă
Good live music, an open roof patio and downstairs dance floor, great drinks and amazing french fries!
Great live music on the weekends (usually rock), a nice rooftop patio.
15 localnici recomandă
El Barracuda
416 C. de Manuel García Vigil
15 localnici recomandă
Great live music on the weekends (usually rock), a nice rooftop patio.

Sightseeing

Petrified waterfalls where you can swim, hike, and enjoy the beautiful view.
195 localnici recomandă
Hierve el Agua
Hierve el Agua
195 localnici recomandă
Petrified waterfalls where you can swim, hike, and enjoy the beautiful view.
Probably the most beautiful church in Oaxaca, this is a central meeting spot where weddings and events occur every day. A great meet up spot, and the museum is fascinating.
313 localnici recomandă
Templul Santo Domingo de Guzman
s/n C. Macedonio Alcalá
313 localnici recomandă
Probably the most beautiful church in Oaxaca, this is a central meeting spot where weddings and events occur every day. A great meet up spot, and the museum is fascinating.

Arts & Culture

A small village on the outskirts of Oaxaca that is completely dedicated to rug making. Beautiful hand-made rugs, meets the families who make them, and participate in the process.
101 localnici recomandă
Teotitlan Del Valle
Km 2 De Juárez
101 localnici recomandă
A small village on the outskirts of Oaxaca that is completely dedicated to rug making. Beautiful hand-made rugs, meets the families who make them, and participate in the process.
This village is famous for its alebrijes, brightly painted wooden animals. Enter into locals' houses to see their artwork, and buy at your leisure.
50 localnici recomandă
San Martín Tilcajete
50 localnici recomandă
This village is famous for its alebrijes, brightly painted wooden animals. Enter into locals' houses to see their artwork, and buy at your leisure.
This village is famous for its alebrijes, brightly painted wooden animals. Enter into locals' houses to see their artwork, and buy at your leisure.
11 localnici recomandă
Arrazola
11 localnici recomandă
This village is famous for its alebrijes, brightly painted wooden animals. Enter into locals' houses to see their artwork, and buy at your leisure.
Learn about Oaxaca's famous black pottery here.
59 localnici recomandă
San Bartolo Coyotepec
59 localnici recomandă
Learn about Oaxaca's famous black pottery here.
Well-known for it's green pottery.
50 localnici recomandă
Santa María Atzompa
50 localnici recomandă
Well-known for it's green pottery.

Essentials

They charge $16 MXN/kilo, and return your clothes washed, dried, and pressed within a day. Very friendly. Count your pieces of clothing before bringing them as it's common for laundry places to misplace clothing.
burbumatic lavanderia
800 C. Porfirio Díaz
They charge $16 MXN/kilo, and return your clothes washed, dried, and pressed within a day. Very friendly. Count your pieces of clothing before bringing them as it's common for laundry places to misplace clothing.
Accept walk-ins. A consultation costs about $350 MXN, specialty doctors around $600 MXN.
MEDICA 2002
316 Emiliano Zapata
Accept walk-ins. A consultation costs about $350 MXN, specialty doctors around $600 MXN.
Soap, Cheese, Wine, toilet paper... All the essentials at this store. Or just go to your local mom and pop store on almost every corner!
Pitico Express Conzatti
703 Reforma
Soap, Cheese, Wine, toilet paper... All the essentials at this store. Or just go to your local mom and pop store on almost every corner!
Stationary store doubling as a cyber cafe. Printing, copies, pens... all your stationary essentials can be found here.
Papelería Cosijopii
207 Cosijopí
Stationary store doubling as a cyber cafe. Printing, copies, pens... all your stationary essentials can be found here.