Oaxaca Pictures

The weekend of January 12th, D and I took the night bus at 12:30am early Saturday morning from a town called Tehuantepec, between our two towns, to Oaxaca City. We were very proud because we bought our tickets a week in advance, definitely an event that needs to be pointed out because we generally plan to go, expecting that none of the Mexicans will buy their tickets ahead of time and we end up making frantic phone calls when there are either no seats or only two or some crisis such as that. It's our little tradition.

Anyway, Oaxaca City is where most of the problems were but they have kind of cooled down as a lot of people were arrested when they started to burn down buildings. But the police were still in the main square with barrigades and riot gear, but nothing happened.


The 5 hour bus ride was at night and we slept and then got to take full advantage of our hotel's continental breakfast because we were there early enough to have it both on Saturday and Sunday. We wandered ate at cafes, went to two museums (that would be D's influence taking hold) and enjoyed our very hot showers.


We left Oaxaca City at noon and got to see why most people prefer to take the bus as opposed to driving. Those roads are scary because you are going through the mountains, but you do get some great views, and it was the most fun I have ever had in a bathroom...by myself, trying to pee while we are going over a speed bump or winding around a corner.

Here is our Cafe Oalla being boiled on the stove. It's the traditional coffee from Oaxaca City.

Aview of the garden of our hotel where we had our breakfast.



Me sitting at a cafe with the Cathedral behind me. Later in the day I would be attacked by an aggressive pidgeon at a different outdoor cafe and would think twice before eating lunch there again. But here, I am happy.


The cathedral from the front.

This is me getting artsy. It's a piece from the anthropological museum we visited, but the sepia gives the scene a little more I think.

Sometimes Mexico surprises me. This was in the bathroom of the Anthropological museum. Not only is it a water saving campaign, it's also comedic reading material as you work.

A very big tree right by the cathedral. There is another one somewhere in Oaxaca that is the oldest living organism, but we chose to go to museums instead of searching for it. So think that it looks like this, but older.

These are the plants they make Mesqual (a rougher form of Tequila) and Tequila from. There are farms of them all along the drive back.