Monte Alban e laboratorio artigianale ad Arrazola e Coyotepec

Overall, a great tour! The van was clean, comfortable, and had good air conditioning. Our guide was very knowledgeable and spoke perfect English, which made everything easy to follow and enjoyable. The Alebrije stop was the only slight disappointment — it wasn’t much of a demonstration, and there wasn’t much explanation of the process or lore behind the art. The prices also felt a bit high compared to other places. In contrast, the black pottery (barro negro) stop was fantastic — a quick, interesting demo and truly beautiful pieces at very reasonable prices. Overall, I was very happy with the experience and would definitely recommend this tour to others

My husband and I joined this tour. It was very nice. Highly recommend. Our tour guide and chauffeur were very patient and friendly.

We were disappointed the road to the ruins was partially closed and we had to walk more than expected. However, our guide Marta was fabulous. She provided us with information and history that enhanced our understanding of what we were seeing. We visited several artisan villages and got to see first hand how waving, black clay pottery, and carved and painted wooden animals were created. We stopped for lunch at a nice restaurant with a good variety of choices. It was a great day.

Comfortable ride to Monte Alban and back. Our guide was great! His knowledge and the way he shared it with the group made Monte Alban come to life. This was my second tour to this special place and it was much more informative than the first one. I highly recommend this experience.

Easy to do without a tour. There is a public bus route that goes straight to the site and pay only 100 pesos for return journey which takes approximately 30 minutes in travel. It's pretty much direct but does pick up and drop off some locals. We took a couple of guides up to site. Buy ticket and that allows access to small museum. Quick entrance. Best to go early before heat of day as large area to cover. Well signed in both Spanish and English. Not much shelter so bring plenty of water to drink. Can do in 2-3 hours comfortably. When you leave as with all of Mexico's sights there are vendors selling drinks, food and souvenirs.

Tour guide was good, knowledgeable and explained the history of Monte Alban very well. We also visited the Cuilapan church, Coyotepec pottery demonstration and the Arrazola wood curving center. Except for the last one which was unbelievably overpriced, rest of the places were good. My only slight dissatisfaction was the tour guide's inability to handle the situation at buffet lunch where I had very little option because of not eating meat. Firstly the operator didn't bother to check my food choice. Then despite reminding the tour guide about my food preferences, even before arriving at the buffet, I was asked to eat dry chicken and rice and still pay the full buffet rate. Thankfully the restaurant owner was nice to accept a reduced rate from me and also arrange some vegetarian soup for me.

Gabriel was a fantastic guide who is very knowledgeable about Monte Albán. We would fully recommend this trip and company.

Monte Albán was beautiful and educational. Our tour guide was exceptional as was our driver. However, there were over 20 people in the group (2 vans) pretty evenly split between English speaking and Spanish speaking, so the tour guide had to say everything twice, and it was too many people to hear him well at each stop - not his fault!

The first part of the tour in Monte Alban was adequate, although the guide’s English was somewhat difficult to understand. It was disappointing but no time was allocated to let us visit the fine looking museum. To our surprise we were told to wait at the parking lot while the rest of the people on our tour returned to Oaxaca, and that we would be picked up to continue our day with others on a full day tour. 45 minutes later we had not heard anything or seen anything resembling the van that was supposed to pick us up. When I communicated via WhatsApp with our Viator contact, they couldn’t figure out who had made the error, but they sent a Spanish-speaking driver to pick us up and bring us to the other group going on. This was a Spanish-speaking group with a Spanish-speaking guide! Fortunately for us, my Spanish is adequate, and a few people on that tour were bilingual. But the tour was supposed to be in English. The artisans we saw were very good and the demonstrations were interesting.

Our guide was very knowledgeable, perfect time allowed for monte Alban. Some time with the guide and time to explore on our own. The stops to the small towns were my favorite, to see the artisans who make the alebrijes, embroidery, and pottery was amazing to see and happy to support small business.