mish&grey: I heart Oaxaca

We arrived in Oaxaca about 8.30pm and found a cheap but friendly and clean place to stay – Posada del Centro – in a good location a few minutes from the Zocalo. About $30 a night with a shared bathroom. TIme to suck it up Grey.

Oaxaca is a beautiful, Spanish colonial town, with well-preserved architecture and cobblestone streets.

My favourite things about Oaxaca:

Our first night was the “Festival of the Radishes”. The whole town was out for the festival and the town centre was filled with little radish dioramas! Very quaint;
5 hour Christmas lunch at Las Dezantes. The food was amazing and after weeks of drinking no or bad wine, we splashed out on a nice bottle. We ate duck tacos, chimichangas (like Mexican spring rolls), Habier Santa (a big leaf stuffed with local Oaxacan cheese which is like a mix between feta, ricotta and squeaky haloumi (AMAZING)) and coconut prawns;
Avocados stuffed with tuna salad – a staple on most menus in Oaxaca – two of the best things in the world = one of the best things in the world;
“Jogging” to Monte Alban, an ancient Aztec town set on a mountaintop. The road to get up there is steep and long, and running at altitude isn’t fun;
There were festivities in and around the Zocalo on Christmas Eve and Christmas night. Kids with sparklers and fireworks, a parade of trucks with kids on the back dressed up as angels and other nativity characters, families everywhere. We sat at a bar on the Zocalo drinking beers and margaritas and watched the action;
Checking out the town markets;
Watching Grey freak out while getting an old-school blade shave at a barber;
Oaxaquena hot chocolate – spicy, nutmeg-ey, cinnamon-ey goodness.