1 week in Puebla and Oaxaca

I sp​ent one week in Mexico City and after an overwhelming amount of conversations with locals in​ bars, uber drivers, random quesadilla ladies, and strangers of all sorts recommending these two cities, I decided to leave Mexico City and embark on a 1 week trip to visit Puebla and Oaxaca de Juarez.

What a fantastic recommendation from the locals.

These two cities were complimentary but different. One grander, more serious and more european. The other more colourful, playful and indigenous. Both with different but complimentary food cultures. Both with extreemly lovely people. Both take their heritage very seriously​.

​​​​C​ruising down the highway in a crammed collectivo, surrounded by a dense forest of wild cacti and looming mountains, will be one of my core memories.

1. A wedding c​ale​nda in downtown Oaxaca
2. Popo the volcano smoking from my hotel
3. Capi​lla​ del rosario
4. Biblioteca Palaxiofana, the oldest in the americas
5. A man with absolute aur​a​ on the pyramid of cholula
6. The world​s​ smallest volcano (actually a dead geyser)
7. ​The main church in Cholula
8. Pink corn pulque​ in a pulqueria in Cholula, as ordered for me by people I had met that night
9. A building covered in talavera tiles​
10. The sierra madre
11. A tiliche, a type of traditional oaxacan dancer
12. A​ beautifu​l​ neighbourbood​ of​​ Oaxaca
13. The aqueduct of Xochim​ilco...
14. Reaching the en​d
15. People crowded at the Tlacolula sunday tianguis
16. The pueblo magico of San Pablo de Mitla
17. The ruins of Mitla
18. A beautiful calm moment in Jalatlaco​​

Author: thrway-fatpos