Ecotours: Sierra Norte

In addition to our normal day long tours, the Institute has begun offering 2 day all-inclusive ecotours to the Sierra Norte, the mountains directly outside of Oaxaca. These tours include delicious meals, accommodation in comfortable shared cabins and visits to various high altitude ecosystems such as cloud forests and bromeliad and orchid habitat.

They give students an opportunity to view another, less seen, aspect of Oaxaca. The rural mountain towns such as Ixtlán de Juarez and Llano Grande provide a view of the radically different lifestyles of those who live in Oaxaca’s mountains. The ecotourism organizations that we work with are all community owned and use the revenues generated from visitors to fund schools, clinics and public works in the mountain towns.

The tours conveniently leave on Saturday mornings at 9:00 a.m. and return on Sunday at 7:30 p.m.