4. Oaxaca and Monte Alban

Today we left Puebla at 8am to go to Oaxaca (kinda pronounced Wa-ha-ka down to the way they use x’s)

When we remembered to look, the mountainous country we passed through was stunning.

We didn’t arrive in Oaxaca until mid afternoon. The city was even nicer than Puebla and we spent the rest of the day exploring it and it’s markets. The markets must have been good because I didn’t mind going around them!!! Shock horror!

Cindy took us to a local place that made chocolate. They even made some for us to try. Whatever you think, pure chocolate is NOT sweet, lol. To be fair, there sweetened (normal) chocolate was really good. I may have bought some if I had any luggage capacity. Admittedly, when it came to having a drink I had coffee. What do you take me for? 🤣

In the evening we went back to one of the rooftop bars (definitely do this if you go!)

The next day we went to the ancient city of Monte Alban (not the original name by any stretch of the imagination!).

Wow, this place was beautiful. The impressive Mayan structures were surrounded by mountains. The first phase of building started around 600bc and was only fully abandoned during the Spanish occupation. While the pyramids at Teotehuacan were more impressive, the setting of these was just so stunning (not that you can tell from my phone pics!). Oh, and please ignore the daftie in the hat!