Estado de Oaxaca Local Customs

  Yummy Nachos Texas w/jalapegnos
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  • Yummy Nachos Texas w/jalapegnos
      Yummy Nachos Texas w/jalapegnos
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  • Cycling pilgrim from Juquila.
      Cycling pilgrim from Juquila.
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  • Juquila pilgrim.
      Juquila pilgrim.
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  • More cycling pilgrims.
      More cycling pilgrims.
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  • Cycling pilgrims taking a rest.
      Cycling pilgrims taking a rest.
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Reviews from VirtualTourist Members

PEOPLE-WATCHING IN THE CENTRAL SQUARE

by ViajesdelMundo

As in most Mexican towns of any size, the central square is the meeting place, near the shops and always a wide choice of bars, restaurants to stop for a coffee, drink, snack or full meal.. Oaxaca is one of the best, with plenty of benches also available if you aren't wanting to eat and drink.People-watching at its best, and often with roving mariachis or other musicians; children flying small kites, and there is a lovely Gazebo, which many evenings has music and the older crowd DANCES! (see photos)

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about the zapotecs...I did my homework...

by americanwildchild

"An indigenous people of Mexico, primarily in S Oaxaca and on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Little is known of the origin of the Zapotec. Unlike most native peoples of Middle America, they had no traditions or legends of migration, but believed themselves to have been born directly from rocks, trees, and jaguars. The early Zapotec were a sedentary, agricultural, city-dwelling people who worshiped a pantheon of gods headed by the rain-god, Cosijo?represented by a fertility symbol combining the earth-jaguar and sky-serpent symbols common in Middle American cultures. A priestly hierarchy regulated religious rites, which sometimes included human sacrifice. They had a great religious center at Mitla and a magnificent city at Monte Alb?n, where a highly developed civilization flourished possibly more than 2,000 years ago. In art, architecture, hieroglyphics, mathematics, and calendar.""Coming...

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Dia de los Muertos

by jgemini65

Day of the dead celebrations are very big in Oaxaca!

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Questions and Answers

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Q:  Hola a todos! Alguien sabe de alguna buena escuela en la costa de Oaxaca donde practicar yoga? Me gustaria que estuviese cerca... 

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A: Chau Hector Espero que entiendes Inglés... mi castellano es terrrible! :) My experience of the Costa Chica is in Oaxaca: Puerto Angel and Zipolite. Zipolite is... 

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