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Cook Yucatán Food with your Merida Mom! (PDF Included!)
Features
- Free cancellation available
- 6h
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
- Multiple languages
Overview
- Visit and shop the market just like locals do!
- Cook 5 different local dishes with your own hands!
- Discover the different flavors and aromas hidden in the local fruits and spices
- Spend an afternoon in a neighborhood away from the massive touristic zone
- Get a PDF Recipe Book of the meals you made!
Activity location
- Mérida
- Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Meeting/Redemption Point
- 500, 60, Calle 59 Centro Histórico, C. 59 500, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yuc., Mexico | Is at the inner corner of the park. Has some tables under umbrellas by the entrance.
- Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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What's included, what's not
- English speaking local guide
What's included What's included - Immersive shopping tour at the Merida's traditional market
What's included What's included - Vegan and vegetarian options
What's included What's included - Ingredients for the Activity
What's included What's included - Yummy surprise at the market
What's included What's included - Public Transportation (Digital Apps, private transport available)
What's included What's included - Hands on cooking activity at local family place
What's included What's included - Copy of Recipe Book for the activity with subtitutions.
What's included What's included - Items for personal use
What's excluded What's excluded - Gratuities for guide and local mom
What's excluded What's excluded
Know before you book
- Not allowed: Bare feet, Drinks in the vehicle, Flash photography, Intoxication, Luggage or large bags, Non-folding strollers, Pets, Weapons or sharp objects
- Not suitable for: Children under 8 years, Hearing-impaired people, Visually impaired people, Wheelchair users
What you can expect
Send us a text if you need us to open a date for you to check availability!
Get ready for one of those experiences will last in your joyful memories over the years!
Shop at the Market and cook like a local with your Mexican mom in a small group!
- Spend a nice afternoon at the intimacy of a very authentic, cozy and unpretencious home in a neighborhood where regular travelers never visit!
- Visit and see the local and oldest market of the city trough the eyes of a local.
- Learn the secrets and tips that locals know about shopping in the mexican traditional markets.
- Try local snacks, spices, fruits and the very mexican aguas frescas!
- Get a recipe book of the activity to cook your dishes at home!
Develop your cooking skills learning the process of making 5 different Yucatan Dishes, their garnishes and the methods that you can apply at home!
Start your local adventure meeting your guide at a very nice and centric park to start a historic stroll towards the oldest traditional market in the city! There, your english speaking local guide will lead you through its mazes, stoping in the stalls, where happily the vendors will share and sell the fresh ingredients you will buy. With the help of your english-speaking guide explaining you all about Mayan, Yucatan and Mexican gastronomy, and the stories hidden behind them, you'll walk the market just like the locals do and discover the flavors and spices that we use in the region. Right in the middle, you'll have a little surprise that we have prepared for you ;)
After your time navigating the market, you'll take a local public transport (mainly digital platforms) and ride into a lovely afternoon, cooking and sharing just as the Mexican families do: visiting the home of your “Mexican Mom”. Within her lovely and warm place, Mamá will lead our hands oncooking where you'll get to transform our ingredients into five flavorful delicacies of the region, learning their processes while you build real human connections doing what humans has been done since our very beggining: sharing our food.
Once you, mamá and your guide filled up belly and hearts spending an afternoon in the intimacy of a local and calm neighborhood, your guide will stay to help on the clean up! (Traditionally guests never clean in mexico). You can call a ride using one of the three different digital ride apps available in the city, we can arrange it for you, or call a taxi for you.
Location
Activity location
LOB_ACTIVITIES LOB_ACTIVITIES - Mérida
- Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Meeting/Redemption Point
PEOPLE PEOPLE - 500, 60, Calle 59 Centro Histórico, C. 59 500, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yuc., Mexico | Is at the inner corner of the park. Has some tables under umbrellas by the entrance.
- Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico