There is a really fantastic new organization called Fundacion En Via (www.envia.org) that is running microfinance tours to help women living around Oaxaca get out of poverty. You meet with local women who are applying for their loans and then En Via uses 100% of the groups' tour fee to give them women interest-free microloans. It is a phenomenal way to get to connect with local women and get a very inside look at life in Oaxaca, and also a concrete way to give back. The best thing I've done in Mexico!

Nice old church and monastery, near Oaxaca city, great for a one day visit, along to some other places in the way.

Loved Oaxaca! Be prepared to try grasshoppers as the legend has it if you eat them you are bound to return.

Try the local cheese, it's delicious!

so cool the Zocalo!"hte place to be in Mexico!

when you arrive to the bus station, coming from escondido, at 4 in the morning or so, you will have a long bus drive behind you, be very tired and some people will be expecting you and your valuables there. lock or hold them tight...

Hostal Fernanda is een kleine hostel die uitgebaat wordt door 2 jonge vrouwen
ze hebben er een kleurrijke ontstpannende plaats van gemaakt!de sfeer is er super!

mercado municipal en las cocinas económicas, cocina tradicional oaxaqueña y excelentes precios

At the market people can have some fried grasshoppers and than walk 2 min. to have one of the best chocolate in the known world

amasing historical city... great documentary festival during summer! wonderful cacao, little market wall colors etc..