Was meant to meet the Wo and some others at a restaurant for lunch today but it appears I had the wrong address. So for about 45 minutes in the heat of the day I searched in vain and then gave up .. every street looks the same here .. so hard to find anything.
So I spent a few hours at the Museum of Culture, which had a decent collection of Oaxacan items from pre-hispanic up to modern day, all of which was housed in a monastery. Did you know that there are 15 different indigenous languages spoken in Oaxaca? No neither did I .. unsurprising but still sad to hear that many are dying out.
Lots of festivities still going on today .. I watched a handful of parades go past. Many people dressed up in halloween style garb, throwing out sweets to the kids and often accompanied by brass bands.
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| Dancing the night away |
That night I decided to treat myself to a bit more of an upmarket feed, so I went to a restaurant .. was quite fancy they made the salsa in front of me (letting me decide how much chilli to add), and I had an excellent soup which contained squash flowers .. main was pork with mole verde, with white beans and oddly I thought - crisps!
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