If you want to remember your trip to this expansive  state, you should be sure to invest in the work of local artisans.

• Pick up from the hotel and drive in a big vehicle with a driver to see different villages.
• Drive for about 40 minutes to reach the first stop. Meet the artisans and enjoy shopping.
• Visit San Bartolo Coyotepec, a brilliant finish of centuries-old tradition and innovative designs of great quality and fine detail, make the black clay pieces of Coyotepec, one of the most beautiful crafts of the state.
• Head to San Martín Tilcajete. The noble copal wood comes to life in the wise hands of the artisans of Tilcajete, who in the intricate shapes and designs of the polychrome alebrijes challenge the limits of imagination and creativity.
• Go to Santo Tomás Jalieza, gentle beauty of daily life and the centuries-old Zapotec heritage shine in the colors, shapes, and designs of the textiles that the women of this community make in the waist loom.
• Move to San Antonino Castillo Velasco. Multicolored silks and cotton, patience, creativity, and dexterity, are essential ingredients to achieve the beautiful garments of San Antonino. Embrodery cotton & silk.
• Meet  a custom hat maker in Oaxaca. You can get a hat made to your size. See part of the process and the ancient machinery to made one othose nice hats.