Oaxaca, Mexico

January 2008


Oaxaca City | Mercado de Abastos | Teotitlan del Valle | Monte Alban / Rancho Aurora / Sierra Miahuatlan | Cerro Largo / Puerto Escondido | Flora and Fauna

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Mercado de Abastos, Oaxaca City


Fresh-roasted cacao beans

Robert samples a tamale

The tamale lady

Robert with a mole negro
tamale

Should we or shouldn't we? (Eat
the roasted grasshoppers, that is.)

Veggies for sale

Robert with some fried fish

Market view...

Liza samples tamales, too!

More stuff...

Fish! and a cute little boy

Chickens and mole

Mark and Robert check out
the herbs

Bins of goods including jamaica
("hibiscus" flowers for drinks, etc.)

Presumably these chickens were so
yellow because they eat
marigolds?  Or so they said.

Flower ladies.

Whatever this fruit was, it was
good!

More dried goods.

Chiles!

and chocolate, sugar, etc.

Pottery, etc.
Oaxaca City | Mercado de Abastos | Teotitlan del Valle | Monte Alban / Rancho Aurora / Sierra Miahuatlan | Cerro Largo / Puerto Escondido | Flora and Fauna

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