During Semana Santa - the week before Easter Sunday - Jeremy and I traveled to the beautiful state of Oaxaca, Mexico. We spent a few days enjoying the beautiful bays of Huatulco and then took a 12-seater plane (30-min ride across the mountains) around the small and picturesque town of Oaxaca and its nearby indigenous villages. I highly recommend visiting Oaxaca City, the nearby Zapotec ruins, and the local villages with their age-old traditional crafts, including artisan mezcal production, black pottery, alebrijes (carved and painted wooden animals), rugs with natural dyes, textiles, among others.
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| Beautiful Tangolunga Bay in Huatulco |
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| Beach time with our San Fran friends Terry and Alison |
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| Oaxaca City |
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| Ex Convent of Santo Domingo |
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| the traditional way of making Mezcal from agave |
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| Using natural dyes for the rugs |
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| Mitla |
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| Ancient ruin at Mitla. |
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| 2,000 cypress tree in Tule |
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| handmade wooden carvings - "alebrijes" |
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| woman making handbags |
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| black pottery made famous by Dona Rosa |
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| Monte Alban, perched on top of the hill, overlooking Oaxaca City |
