Oaxaca
Trip Start
Aug 31, 2006
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Trip End
Aug 15, 2007
Oaxaca,
Mexico
Friday, February 16, 2007
03 El zocalo
Moving fast towards Guatemala, I made two more stops. The first one in Oaxaca, a very nice city with a nice atmosphere. It has nice colored houses and a vibrant central plaza with lots of restaurants, terazaīs and some nice colonial buildings.
01 Monte Alban
It was also the place for another chance for pre Columbian ruins to impress me. We (two Spanish girls I met in Mexico City and me) went to the famous Monte Alban, it was the capital of the Zapotec culture that ruled in that region almost in the same era as the Teotihuacas (see previous entry). Anyway, it was again very hot and very dry and again I was not very much impressed. Incaīs do a much better job!! Time to just ignore all the ruins on my way from then on? I decided to give it one more try, in Palenque with the first Maya ruins.
06 Raquel and Onía
After this it was time to say goodbye to Raquel en Onia, the two Spanish girls (or should I say Catalan?). They tried to learn me some Catalan, which didnīt really work, but my Spanish didnīt get worse during these three days of traveling together. They were off to the coast for three months of volunteer work, and I, as already said to the ruins of the last chance in Palenque. 
