At the end of January Leslie and I, along with our friends Jim and Mark, spent three and a half days in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. We toured. We shopped. We ate. We took pictures. I myself took over 1500 pictures and most of them are here in this post.
After the initial cityscapes and landscapes, feel free to keep scrolling. Farther down you'll see pictures of:
- Monte Albán,
- Murals & Graffiti,
- Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán,
- Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca,
- El Árbol del Tule,
- the organ (1735) of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya,
- Mitla,
- Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl
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Many of the headers have links to relevant websites.
Landscapes
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| Original Wall at the bottom, reconstructed wall (with small stones) above |
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| Wall Carving on the Observatory. Our guide told us that these carvings are cited by Erick von Daniken as evidence of alien visitations. |
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Besides all the touring, we shopped and ate our way around the city of Oaxaca. We returned with mezcal (I liked the 8-year old barrel aged), beautiful handwoven rugs using only natural dyes, and a passel of alebijes, colorful, fantastical folk sculptures.
The food was excellent, including my first ever taste of a grasshopper quesadilla. Alas, we didn't get to eat at Pollo Estilo Kentucky, but they seem to be doing great business. Maybe I'll get a chance to try it on a future trip.
