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Experience more with small group tours...
Connect with local culture in a more intimate style. Have more personal interactions with people and places. Enjoy more flexibility in scheduling to explore your own interests. Get the most out of your travel experience with Tours By Sharon.
Oaxaca
Mexico

MARCH 11 - March 19, 2023
Tour is full - sign up
for waitlist or March 2024
Oaxaca is known for its diverse array of crafts, such as woodcarving, weaving, pottery, embroidered textiles, metal working, and basket weaving, each centered in its own village. We'll travel to several villages for a close up look at how the artisans work. Oaxaca is also the ancient home of the Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations, builders of Monte Alban and Mitla. In Oaxaca City, we'll explore grand churches, museums and public buildings, and wander through the bustling zocalo and markets brimming with colorful flowers, fresh produce and regional crafts.
Mexico City
& Puebla
Mexico

SEPTEMBER 14 - 23, 2023
Limited to 12 travelers
Sign Up by March 1 for a 10% discount
We will be in Mexico for Independence Day (September 16) which is a tribute to the battle cry that launched a rebellion in 1810. Like America's 4th of July, the celebration of freedom is a giant fiesta with colorful parades, parties and family gatherings featuring food and fireworks.
Highlights in Mexico City include Frida Kahlo’s “Blue House”, the Zocalo, Teotithuacan, a full day exploring Chapultepec Park and the surrounding museums and the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco. In Puebla, a walking tour of the town, craft and textile workshops, and visits to villages, churches and archaeological sites.
Michoacán
Mexico

JANUARY 2024
Witness one of the world's most spectacular natural phenomena - the North American monarch butterfly migration. If being surrounded by hundreds of millions of butterflies isn't enough, there is also a walking tour of capitol city Morelia, visits to artists workshops around Lake Patzcuaro featuring textiles, pottery and catrinas, a National Park, handicraft markets, museums, an archaeological site, and the village of Santa Clara Del Cobre and its copper workshops and museum.
San Miguel
de Allende
Mexico

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2024
San Miguel is widely considered to be the most beautiful city in Mexico, with its well-preserved Colonial and Spanish architecture, charming cobblestone streets, dramatic sunsets and no traffic lights. We will experience the Patron Saint Festival, when the city comes alive with colorful parades, performers and lots of fireworks. We visit museums, churches, art galleries, artisan shops, an archaeological site and a winery with a tasting. In nearby Guanajuato, we explore the Diego Rivera Museum, churches and more.
Chiapas
Mexico

OCTOBER - NOVEMBER
This small group tour during Day of the Dead is a wonderful combination of exploring the culture, history and textiles/crafts with local celebrations and archaeological sites. Highlights of the tour include: a boat ride through the Sumidero Canyon, time in San Cristobal to explore Chamula and a local cemetery during Day of the Dead, textile museum and weaver’s co-op, craft shops and galleries. Then on to the archaeological sites of Tonina, Palenque, Bonampak, Yaxchilan each in a unique setting. Time spent in Villahermosa.