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| evelyn55 | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Oaxaca, Mexico | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 The Zocalo, the main plaza |
 The cathedral |
 One of many colorful buildings |
 Carol and Alan |
 On the Calle Macedonio Alcala |
 Carvings on watermelons |
 Santo Domingo church, ex-convent & cultural center |
 Vendor near the church entrance |
 Entrance to the cultural center |
 Gold-gilded altar |
 Courtyard of the ex-convent |
 View of courtyard from above |
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 Botanical garden |
 Basilica de la Soledad |
 Activity in the zocalo |
 Lunch at the El Asador Vasco restaurant |
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 The chicken mole specialty |
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 The Juarez market |
 Bark paintings |
 Fried grasshoppers |
 Visit to a chocolate factory |
 Gabriel explains the work involved |
 Chocolate being processed |
 Sampling the chocolate |
 Sampling other drinks at the |
 terrace bar of the Victoria Hotel |
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 Monte Alban, center of the Zapotec civilization (500BC-750AD) |
 Statue of Alfonso Caso, directed 1st large scale excavations |
 Ball court |
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 The main plaza |
 Steps to the Northern Platform |
 Temples |
 The Dancers, stone slab carvings, oldest artifacts in Monte Alban |
 Note Olmec features of the faces |
 Certified mask maker |
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 2008 is the 76th anniversary of the discovery of Tomb 7 |
 Cuilapan church (unfinished) and ex-monastery |
 Open air chapel |
 Stone arches |
 Frescos in a hall niche |
 Detail indicating literacy in the 16 th century |
 Mural of the "Tree of Friars" |
 Lunch at La Capilla |
 an outdoor restaurant |
 Cooking chile relleno |
 Cooking over open fires |
 Anticipating lunch |
 Chicken tacos with guacamole sauce |
 Newlyweds posing at the door of artist F. Toledo's home |
 Irene of the Galleria Arte de Oaxaca |
 where we were guests at a reception |
 One room devoted to the works of Rodolfo Morales |
 Tule tree, more than 2000 years old |
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 The 9 year old "flashlight" guide |
 Lambityeco, a Zapotec archeological site |
 Mask of the rain god (Cocijo) |
 Tomb no. 6 of the last rulers of Lambityeco |
 A jacaranda tree |
 The market at Tlacolula |
 Huge papayas |
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 Women seem to be the vendors |
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 Lunch as guests of a family of weavers |
 in the village of Teotitlan del Valle |
 Delicious chicken tamales |
 Working the wool |
 Spinning the yarn |
 Finished carpets |
 Making decorations, note yellow flower in foreground |
 The family of weavers |
 Angel Aguilar's cutlery and blacksmith workshop |
 Signing one of his knives, made from recycled metal |
 Courtyard of the home of Rodolfo Morales |
 The dining room |
 The kitchen |
 A ceramic work in the hallway |
 One of many Morales collages: note the hands |
 Group picture in the Morales home |
 Group picture at the street entrance to the home |
 A market featuring "Welcome to Frida's Kitchen" |
 Frida Kahlo look-alike |
 A little boy at the doorway of the government palace |
 Restored convent now a museum |
 of contemporary art |
 Workplace of the Aguilar sisters |
 A family enterprise |
 Clay works of all sizes and themes |
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 Ruth and Ethel |
 Lunch at a roadside restaurant |
 in the village of San Martin Tilcajete |
 Chicken estofado with almond sauce |
 Zeny Fuentes, woodcarver & painter |
 Epifanio Fuentes, the father & head of family |
 The men carve from copal wood |
 The women paint |
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 Zeny and family |
 Carvings ready to be painted |
 One of my purchases |
 Valente Nieto, son of Dona Rosa, demonstrates pottery without a wheel |
 Black pottery |
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 Photographs & mementos of Dona Rosa |
 Looking at black pottery |
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 An informal taco dinner |
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 A guided tour of the Botanical Gardens |
 Barrel cactus |
 "Shaving brush" tree |
 Close up of the "shaving brush" |
 Various succulents |
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 Workers in the botanical gardens and ex-convent |
 Final dinner at Casa Oaxaca |
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 Soup with zucchini flowers |
 Chef giving finishing touches to the main dish |
 a fish dish, a grouper fillet |
 Lemon tart with oaxacan chocolate mousse |
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