The petrified waterfalls of Hierve el Agua, with a route built around what you want to see.
A private day trip to Hierve el Agua's mineral rock formations and natural pools, with a genuinely customizable route — your guide can add Teotitlán del Valle, a mezcal distillery, or the Mitla ruins along the way, time permitting.
Hierve el Agua is a set of mineral rock formations resembling frozen cascades, with natural pools you can walk to and swim in. This version of the tour is built to be genuinely flexible: after enough time at the site itself, your guide can work in optional stops — a mezcal tasting, Teotitlán del Valle's weaving workshops, red-clay pottery in San Marcos Tlapazola, or the archaeological sites at Mitla, Dainzú, or Yagul — depending on how much time you have left in the day.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Oaxaca City included, with the scenic drive out to Hierve el Agua.
The site's natural infinity-edge pools and petrified-waterfall rock formations, with time to walk the trails and swim.
Your guide can build in a mezcal tasting, Teotitlán del Valle, or nearby archaeological sites depending on time and interest.
The scenic drive through Oaxaca's Central Valleys, past agave fields and small pueblos.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private day trip to Hierve el Agua's mineral rock formations and natural pools, with a genuinely customizable route — your guide can add Teotitlán del Valle, a mezcal distillery, or the Mitla ruins along the way, time permitting. Hierve el Agua is a set of mineral rock formations resembling frozen cascades, with natural pools you can walk to and swim in. This version of the tour is built to be genuinely flexible: after enough time at the site itself, your guide can work in optional stops — a mezcal tasting, Teotitlán del Valle's weaving workshops, red-clay pottery in San Marcos Tlapazola, or the archaeological sites at Mitla, Dainzú, or Yagul — depending on how much time you have left in the day.
Hierve el Agua means roughly 'the water boils', a name that comes from the bubbling springs here, though the water is cool. The site lies about 70 km east of Oaxaca City and some 14 km southeast of Mitla, in San Lorenzo Albarradas.
The rock formations are travertine: spring water saturated with calcium carbonate spills over the cliff edge and deposits minerals over thousands of years, much as stalactites form in caves. The result looks like frozen waterfalls. Sources describe two main formations, a smaller cascade and a larger one that drops several dozen metres, and figures vary between sources.
Because the site is so far out, the route passes through the Central Valleys where optional add-on stops cluster, which is why this tour is built to be flexible. Mitla, listed among the possible extras, was a major Zapotec religious centre later influenced by the Mixtec, so it makes a natural pairing.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.