Every day is a fiesta in Oaxaca, even Good Friday.
Dancing and music on the main square, day and night.
The streets are alive
although most folks stick to the shade.
Traditional crafts being sold in courtyards.
A respite for Patty between visits to many of the city's 29 churches.
Jamie, on the other hand, found his respite in Negro Modelo and Mescal.
A tropical city in which
everyone stays indoors for siestas in the heat of the day.
Monte Alban, the first Zapotec city.
It reigned from 500 BC to 750 AD.
More than 40,000 people lived where Jamie stands.
Collectibles we brought home.
Backstrap looms being used at a women's cooperative.
Crushing beetles to produce a natural red dye.
Patty tries her hand at spinning wool.
Likely not to be an occupation in Patty's retirement.
Huautla, an old Mexican hilltop city in the Sierra Madres,
gained international fame in the 1960s for Maria Sabina's magic mushrooms.
At lower elevations, Patty and Jamie explore the Isla Soyaltepec formed when a massive government dam flooded the valley in the 1950s.
A mayor of a small mainland village found us a boatman to take us to the island.
After a thirty-minute hike up a steep burrow trail, we found the burros relaxing in town.
A charming village greeted us
as school children headed home for lunch.
Jamie, the intrepid explorer, poses for a photo op.