Oaxaca pt. 4 local towns

Oaxaca City, where we stayed, is the capital of Oaxaca state, which has a large group of small native villages. We had a chance to visit 5 of those villages to see the locals and their beautiful handicrafts.

Big Tree (literally, this is the biggest oldest tree in the world, and it's this one town's claim to fame):


alebrijes:

These animals are hand carved from wood and then hand painted and assembled. This is a new art that the locals developed about 20 years ago in order to preserve their traditional culture but also sell something that modern tourists would wan tot buy.


woven rugs:

local wool is naturally dyed and woven on looms to make rugs, blankets, pillowcases, and other things.

We also went to a city that sold black pottery. We were not a fan of that as much. It was rare and pretty, but not something that we would want to buy. No pictures, unfortunately!

I'm going to post again tomorrow (Saturday) which I normally don't, so I thought I'd warn the dedicated readers!