Postcards from abroad
Each night, many musicians play loud music in the main square in Oaxaca and, if it’s the right kind of music (samba, rumba, etc), people out shopping or walking about just stop and dance on the pavement. Here is one of last night’s performances, with dancers clearly taking a break from ordinary life.
We had a half day out of town and found a café in a market in a small town where the owner is famed for her resemblance to someone else.
There is so much beautiful local art and craft that it fulfils all the cliches one has ever heard about Oaxaca. We came across this beautiful carved wood animal (an alebrejo) and its maker on a very hot trip to a village which specialises in them. It was about nine inches tall. The picture is… Continue reading Artistic Oaxaca
We spent a rather hot morning climbing pyramids on Monte Albán, a rather mysterious site established in about 500 BC and lived in by a succession of peoples - finally the Zapotecs- until about 700 AD. It is about 6,400 feet above sea level. Make sure you check out the scale in relation to the… Continue reading Monte Alban
Sorry if we seem obsessed with these marvellous objects. Today, we saw the third of our oustanding pre-Hispanic museums and these are a tiny selection of the wonders we saw. Most are somewhere between 2,500 B.C. to 200 A.D.