Sugar Skulls

Counting Down to Day of the Dead in Oaxaca

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October 31st 2012
October 29-October 31 Oaxaca is a six hour bus ride from Mexico City, so basically my entire day on October 29, was spent traveling. I arrived in Oaxaca just before dark and I took a taxi with a kid I met from Wales. His name was Henry and he is a graffiti artist who is traveling around Latin America for a year looking for work painting murals...cool stuff! For the next five nights I would ... read more

North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Oaxaca

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more