This time tomorrow I will be in Oaxaca, an ancient but impoverished city in the south of Mexico. The photo is of Monte Albán, the great cultural center of the Zapotec people which flourished 600 to 800 AD. Despite being conquered by Mixtecs, Aztecs, and, in 1521, Spaniards, many people in Oaxaca consider themselves Zapotec and speak the Zapotec language. The state of Oaxaca is home to more indigenous peoples than any other in Mexico.
Monte Albán
Legend has it that if you eat the roasted grasshoppers here, you will return. I think this may be correct; I was here last year as well.
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