Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca, te amo. You gave me back being able to see hills and mountains, and for that my heart will be eternally grateful.
Detrás de los cerros estás tú 🎶
My husband and I went in late March to the City of Oaxaca, and I loved the cacti, mole and colors. Our hearts were thirsty for sun and we also got plenty of that!
On our first day we went to the restaurant Casa Oaxaca, this was during peak season without a reservation, but the stars aligned and we got a table without any wait at the beautiful terrace 🙌 and we got to say hello to Chef Alejandro Ruiz Olmedo ✨ We had the best mole in history.
One of my favorite places was Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca, simply because I'm a plant lover, but also it has a very interesting story of how it came to be. This beautiful ethnobotanical garden was designed by Maestro Francisco Toledo as an alternative to the city's government plan to develop the site into a hotel and parking lot, and thank goodness that original plan didn't happen. This place hosts plants from all over Oaxaca and also shows a area where there is non-domesticated corn, you can see how much we've changed the maize to make it edible. It was an awesome learning experience.
Can you see my happy face?
We were shocked at the amount of art galleries in the city. There's simply art everywhere, especially the famous folk art sculptures called alebrijes. We were so intrigued by them that we went to the little town of San Martín Tilcajete to visit the famous workshop of Jacobo and María Angeles.
During the day it was warm AF! ☀️ Therefore we did our activities early in the morning and during the evening, during noon we napped como buenos mexicanos.
Now that it’s mid-April and I’m back in Minnesota and it’s snowing I’m missing Oaxaca like crazy. Someday I’ll go back to eat more mole. ♥️