Sunday 3 November 2013
Got up
early and were on the road by 8:00am. We
had a lot to do. Was at Mont Alban at
8:30. This was the big pre-hispanic city
in the Oaxaca area, about 10km outside of town.
Wow! Really something
special. The city thrived for over 1500
years and then went into decline just before the around about the time the Spanish
turned up. They’re not sure why they
abandoned the city. Maybe white diseases
came overland before the Spanish even arrived in the area. Another spectacular ruin.
If you go to Dan Murphy
you can get Mont Alban Mezcal, but we couldn’t see any in the area because it’s
cheap crap and the locals don’t buy it, without the worm in it.
Then
we went to another archaeological site called Mitla. Small but absolutely beautiful. All these geometric shapes on the buildings.
