メキシコ！(Continued~)

So, I promised you to continue talking about my trip to Mexico, didn't I? Haha... ^^" ごめんね！最近（さいきん）忙しいでした。

So, the next day, after going around some more churches in Puebla, we took the afternoon bus to Oaxaca. After spending the night in the youth hostel, we went on a half-day tour to Monte Albán, an archeological site of a pre-Columbian ceremonial center situated on top of a leveled mountain ridge. It was really impressive. 写真を見てください！

The next day, we went to Palenque to see the ruins there. It was quite far so we took the night train there and back. It was tiring (疲れました！) but it was worth it to see the ruins in the jungle. It was a very different environment – much more humid, and hotter.

This is misleading... This building was huge!

It was really tiring going up all these (absurdly high) steps, but the view was worth it!

And here's me, finally getting some rest. ^^

The next day, we spent some more time in Oaxaca – mostly visiting museums and churches. We were really lucky and were in Mexico for the Day of the Dead (the equivalent of Halloween, you could say), so we got to see some special decorations, and we saw the processions dancing through the streets. Some of the costumes were amazing! The most popular was, of course, the skeleton in a wedding dress. It was quite entertaining to see them dancing to the upbeat music.

On our last day in Oaxaca, we took another half-day tour just to see some landscapes in the area. We stopped by a local cooperative of women doing traditional weaving, a local production of Mexcal (メキシコのさけ), and the widest tree in the world...

The most important and special part of the local traditional weaving is that
the threads are all coloured with natural colorants. They use flowers, spices, and even dried insects.