Practical reading for a morning on the ridge: what the gate costs now rather than last year, what each building on the plaza actually is, and whether the neighbouring Zapotec site is the better use of your second day. If you have only a morning, start with a Monte Alban tour from Oaxaca.
The 2026 entry price, why almost every other page still quotes the old one, and which fares put it inside the tour instead of at the gate.
Read post →The Main Plaza in walking order, from the Danzantes to the arrowhead of Building J, with what to look for at each stop and what to skip.
Read post →A mountaintop shaved flat by hand, forty stones that read as a list of conquests, and a ticket price that doubled at the start of this year.
Read post →Fifteen hundred years on one ridge and ninety years of digging to explain it, set out for the reader who came for the argument, not the view.
Read post →Two Zapotec sites within an hour of each other that look nothing alike. Which to give the day to, and the order to do both in.
Read post →For the longer decisions — guide or no guide, half day or full, what the whole thing really costs — see the planning guides. To compare fares, start at Monte Alban Tours.
