Finding Home in Oaxaca
September 8, 2026
After a lifetime of travel, often wondering why I came home, I decided not to. Here’s the story.
After a lifetime of travel, often wondering why I came home, I decided not to. Here’s the story.
Colorful settings and costumes for the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Oaxaca
Oaxaca is notable not only for its wildly colorful walls but for the variety of art on many of them
One of the most lavishly-decorated churches you could imagine; nearly every inch carries rich ornaments
A group of musicians by Victor Vasquez play on at Oaxaca’s Centro Cultural San Pablo
Large and small, Oaxaca’s markets are busy and colorful
A small museum offers beautiful examples of traditional and tradition-based needlework
In a magnificent former convent, the museums explores the many roots of Oaxaca’s peoples
Oaxaca’s Philatelic Museum has a large collection with several interesting focuses
Oaxaca’s cathedral has survived centuries of earthquakes; it’s one of the busiest Paul Heymont’s seen