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Santiago Apoala
A village worth the long drive · Asunción Nochixtlán, Mexico
Photo: ArbyBB · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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$Price level
Oct–AprBest time
The experience
A ~200-person Mixtec village in a green canyon valley — the mythical birthplace of the Mixtec people — with a 50-m waterfall, turquoise lagoon, caves and ancient pictographs, run by a community ecotourism cooperative.
Three hours from Oaxaca City on rough mountain roads, no chain hotels, no big tour operators.
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It's only worth the detour Oct–Apr. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Asunción Nochixtlán, Mexico · Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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