Friends, So on sunday we did a 4 hour walking tour of Oaxaca that included several churches, including the cathedral and the Santo DOmingo church of Oaxaca. Also included in our tours were the ancient acqueduct, the zocalo (plaza) which is currently a squatter city full of tents, sleeping bags, and tarps because the municipal teachers of public schools are on strike, and the mercado where we saw clothing, arts and crafts, and traditional oaxacan cuisine which includes different moles, chiles, chocolate, and chapulines (grasshoppers) which are an essential part of the diet because in this "tropical area" there is little beef production and so grasshoppers and other insects are an essential part of the diet for protein. In the afternoon we ate and walking thoughout the streets in the rain which continued for the third
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