Journeys Beyond the City

Outside Mexico City, we can offer you very strong contacts (a full educational or cultural journey, including program development, accompaniment and translation) in the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, and the Cuernavaca city area. We can help connect you with people or organizations doing interesting work in a variety of topics, or, we can simply help you organize a sightseeing trip to other areas; just contact us and we will work out the details.

Some of the topics available in this category include:

Oaxaca City

• Visits with various non-profits or community organizations
• Alternative Healers
• Local Markets
• Gastronomic tour - Oaxaca is famed for its regional food and sweets.
• Visits to pedal-loom weavers in nearby Teotitlán del Valle

San Andres Chicahuaxtla (small indigenous village) and Tlaxiaco (small Mixteco city)

• Alternative Education/ Bilingual Indigenous Education
• Traditional Weavers (backstrap loom)
• Traditional Healing: Herbal medicine, massage, sweat lodge and other methods
• Local Markets
• Local government
• Introduction to Mexican music of the past 30 years including: Rock, reggae, ska, Romantic ballads, and folk: i.e., songs of resistance movements

Juchitán, Oaxaca

• Juchitán Cultural Center
• Talk with activist groups working to conserve local traditions and to block the Plan Puebla-Panama
• Talks with Muxes - being gay within local traditions.

San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas

• Visit to local non-profit organizations and possible visits to nearby villages, depending on the day-to-day circumstances, in this city on the border of the Zapatista region.

Cuernavaca, Morelos

• Visit to CITA, A.C.: appropriate and alternative technology: dry Toilets, rainwater cisterns and wetlands for greywater treatment. Technology as a tool that belongs to the people (vs. patents).
• Alternative Healing: Talk with or receive services from various healers who use one or more alternative healing methods: homeopathy, acupuncture, massage, chinese floral medicine, Bach flowers, Reiki and other methods.
• Day trip to Tepoztlán and possibly surrounding villages: for cultural journeys, there are pre-hispanic archeological sites and mountains to hike up. For educational journeys, you can get to know the strong local movements that have managed to stop some mega-development projects in the region.
• Talks with locally-based activists and writers who participate in the struggle against privatizing our natural resources, and who offer alternatives that promote independence from the power structure.