There are lots of little towns around Oaxaca as well as a lot of archaeological sites to tromp around. We’ve been doing our best to see them all.
The Tlacolula Sunday market was full of traditional dress, food, and farm animals. One section was lined with people standing side-by-side with two or three live chickens or turkeys hanging upside down in their hands. Our kids were about ready to turn vegetarian. When visiting the markets there is no uncertainty left as to where the food on your table really comes from.
Hanging up another tarp over the market. It’d be fun to show up here at four in the morning some time and watch them convert the streets.
Sunday morning there are always garbage bins full of flowers outside the churches. In with the new, out with the old.
I love the ingenuity of the knife sharpeners in Mexico. For ten pesos my knife is always sharp.
The Atzompa ruins are just across a valley from the bigger Monte Alban site. You can actually see one from the other, like a couple of different 1,500 year-old Oaxacan neighborhoods.
Back in Oaxaca we visited a nice exhibit at a photography museum, had lunch, some ice cream, and wandered some areas we hadn’t before.
Traveler Pro Tip: Quit trying to save your guidebook for your shelf back home. Instead, tear out the pages for the city you are in and leave the rest of the book in the hotel room. You will appear to be way less lame than you actually are.
Ouest snatched the camera from me and took the next two shots.
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Traveler Pro Tip: Quit trying to save your guidebook for your shelf back home. Instead, tear out the pages for the city you are in and leave the rest of the book in the hotel room. You will appear to be way less lame than you actually are.
Truer words have not been spoken.
The kids are awesome…
good tip, perhaps if that tourist-not-Pat ever reads this blog he will take it. I will use it.
Loved the picture of the kids in the niche below the statues and the last one of Lowe alone, in the pink shirt. Both kids are so photogenic, and make great subjects. Always love your photos.
Good job Ouest! Your picture of the man selling toy dogs was excellent! Pat, have you tried Tonality for the Mac yet? It is the best B&W photo creator I’ve ever come across.
At least the guide book guy wasn’t wearing socks with his sandals…silver lining?