Oaxaca touristy things

As the improper tourists we are, we had a bit of stressing around town to do to find spare batteries for my water purifier, electrolyte powder, and cooking alcohol. And we might have gone to thirty stores in total asking around for those things, but we got it all. First things first.

After all that, we had time and energy to do sightseeing, drink some excellent local coffees — not instant like you get in the small towns — and have some amazing food. And we didn't even have the shits yet, after having had some cold rice drink (horchata) with ice, tacos from roadside stands, and icecream from the market. In oaxaca you will manage as a vegetarian; in smaller pueblos it is not always easy and we will resort to cooking ourselves a bit more often.

On Wednesday we went to the biggest archeological site around, the _real_ Monte Alban, which was a city more than 2000 years ago and has a lot of temples. Temples temples temples. And a ball court (unknown if they also sacrificed the winner to the gods here). Mostly, it was super hot up there, which robbed you of all energy pretty quickly. We are both happy to have taken a tourist bus up there, and not to have tried going up there on our own accord (least of all bike up there).

Today we did a Mexican (Oaxacan) cooking class, where we made our own tortillas, empanadas, mole, saw foodbunnies that were so cute but "not ready for eating yet", and drank mezcal. Good way to get ready for more days of cycling, in the direction of tuxtla.Read more