Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Tlacolula Market

After visiting Mitla we stopped at Tlacolula's Sunday Market. This is outside and only held on Sundays in this smallish hill town east of Oaxaca.


Fruit in Mexico is excellent and cheap. We don't buy the cut stuff, but prefer to buy and cut up our own assuming that we will be more careful about clean knives and washing the fruit.


Everything is sold in the market. It is the same in small towns in Guatemala and when we were still on Coot and staying in the Rio Dulce of Guatemala, I could have half the town watch me choose a bra.




Chocolate is a big commodity and this fellow is adding sugar to the previously ground cocoa beans.


Traditional meets stylish. Again it is the older women who keep to traditional dress--not as colorful as in San Cristobal de las Casas or in Merida. It seems an odd place to wear one's reboza, but it should keep the sun from bleaching her hair. Maybe it's not as hot to wear on the head as on the shoulders as long as one doesn't have a baby to tote.