October 9, 2007

Today we woke up in Oaxaca and took off around 9 AM in order to go up to Monte Alban, and old Azteck ruin west of the city. It was an unbelievable sight, hundreds of years of work to build stone into the heavens so that a very few would be able to enter an afterlife. It reminded me a lot of the pyramids in Egypt, only without the mountains. The structures themselves rose up to a hundred feet in the air, over looking a valley where every whisper was echoed onto the mound, as if any battalion would have a chance. I was trying to put myself back in those times, walking around without shoes, caring stones over intense mountain sides and miles from origin. The life that must have been in those times had to have been both majestic and treacherous at the same time. The day was beautiful and the experience was beyond the skin and mind.
After the tour, we took off into the Sierra Madres, on another 5 hour trek through amazing curves and wonderful spectacles, that only God herself could have sent down for us to see. The tour was only 200 kilometers, but it had so many wild turns and valleys that we had to take it slow. Not to mention, we were right in the middle of Mezcal, the land of Mezcal my friends! Agave plants lined the valleys and mountain sides, parading our journey in green projection, with perfect design and wonderful smokey taste. The sight was absolutely amazing. We landed in Tehuantepec at around 4, found a quaint hotel and a wonderful dinner to end a perfect day. What a wonderful life.