Your personal guide to Oaxaca, México
The most fantastic dream can come true, and alebrijes are a sample of this. They are mystical figures product of the artist’s imagination, full of color, and mixing elements of various animals, whether real or mystical. Learn about their origin, and more in this post. WHERE, HOW AND WHEN DID ALEBRIJES ARRISE? The basis for … Read moreTHE ALEBRIJES, DREAMS COME TRUE
Oaxaca has diversity of clays, one of them mentioned in the last post the black clay, in Oaxaca there is also green and red, the red clay is done in San Marcos Tlapazola, in this post I tell you about it. The red clay is not the only one in Oaxaca like black and green, … Read moreTHE SECRETS OF RED CLAY POTTERY
Oaxaca is full of culture, gastronomy, nature, color and art, a very traditional style of art and very known in Oaxaca is the black clay, in this post I am going to tell you about this incredible type of clay made with hands of oaxacan craftsmen. THE BLACK CLAY IS THE ONLY TYPE OF CLAY … Read moreTHE BLACK CLAY (BARRO NEGRO), THE ESSENTIAL CLAY OF OAXACA?
There are a lot of cultures in Oaxaca, that makes it multicultural, one of them is the Zapotec culture that with the Mixtec are the most famous. ORIGINS The Zapotecs are the most old group of Oaxaca, this culture surged and had their apogee in the Central Valleys but they also inhabited in other big … Read moreTHE ZAPOTEC CULTURE
The fundamental part of Mexican gastronomy is tortilla, with this we do a lot of dishes. ORIGINS Corn has been a very important element in pre-hispanic culture and gastronomy, Mayan people believed that we were made of corn, and there were gods of corn in the pre-hispanic Mesoamerican cultures. There are proves of the beginning … Read moreTHE CORN TORTILLA, A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF MEXICAN GASTRONOMY
When we travel we do tourism, because we stay in a hotel, we go to eat in a restaurant, we hire a guide, or we plan the trip through a travel agency. But did you know that there are different types of tourists? Yes, there are different types of tourists and what are they? COSMOPOLITAN … Read moreTYPES OF TOURISTS
Christmas arrived in Oaxaca and in general in Mexico by the Spaniards, since it is a tradition of the old continent. The true meaning of Christmas is the birth of Jesus, the word comes from the Latin nativitas meaning birth. Christmas was implemented as part of the indigenous evangelization, and curiously coincided with the Aztec … Read moreHOW DID CHRISTMAS CAME TO OAXACA?