El Tule
Tlacolula is about thirty kilometers from Oaxaca de Juarez. About nine kilometers from Oaxaca is the town of Tule. A giant Montezuma cypress which has the stoutest trunk of any tree in the world is located in Tule. The tree is believed to be 1,600 years old. Aside from the tree are restaurants and local made goods.
Teotitlan del Valle
Nine kilometers west of Tlacolula is the town of Teotitlan del Valle. The town is famous for their wool products, many of which are dyed using extracts of plants and insects.
Yagul
Yagul is located east of Tlacolula and is the best known archeological site within the municipality of Tlacolula. The site was first occupied around 500-100 BC. Around 500-700 AD. Residential, civic and ceremonial structures were built at Yagul. Yagul is one of the most studied archaeological sites in the Valley of Oaxaca.
Mitla
Mitla is the second most important archeological site in the state of Oaxaca, second to Monte Alban, and the most important of the Zapotec culture. The archeological site is within the modern municipality of San Pablo Villa de Mitla. It was still occupied and functioning as the main religious center when the Spanish arrived in the 1520s. In the 16th century, the Spanish built the Church of San Pablo here, which remains on top of a large pre-Hispanic platform which serves as the church atrium.
Hierve el Agua
Hierve el Agua (Spanish for "the water boils") is set of natural rock formations in the Mexican state of Oaxaca that look like waterfalls. The site is located about 70 km east of Oaxaca city past Mitla in the municipality of San Lorenzo Albarradas, with a narrow, winding unpaved road leading to the site. The site consists of two rock shelves or cliffs which rise between fifty and ninety meters from the valley below, from which extend nearly white rock formations which look like waterfalls. These formations are created by fresh water springs, whose water is over-saturated with calcium carbonate and other minerals. As the water scurries over the cliffs, the excess minerals are deposited, much in the same manner that stlactites are formed in caves. One of the cliffs, called the "cascada chica" (small waterfall) or the Amphitheatre, contains two large artificial pools for swimming as well as a number of small natural pools
