We started at 8am so caught this sunrise from the rooftop restaurant of the hotel
A reminder of how poor some of the people are is shown by the homes of some of them
under the arches of the motorway and
this young girl selling at the side of the road
We passed then at some distance the two volcanoes outside Mexico, the smoking one
and the other larger showing over the cloud level.
Stopping at Puebla for lunch. A very pleasant city with a fine Cathedral, some good stained glass and painting
along with finely decorated panels and arches
and interesting modern sculptures outside.
A visit to a franciscan monastery with the obigatory Mary chapel followed. Extremely over decorated with lots of gold leaf in evidence
and a rather simpler side chapel
although the pulpit was quite pleasing.
It has a pretty artist quarter
and market where I bought a hand painted plate for not a lot!
A devil was patrolling the cross roads with his whip as some festival was going on
There were yet more volcanoes on view before we reached Oaxaca
We stopped to view a very large cactus plant
yes, that is me in front of it!
The scenery in the shadows was quite spectacular
And caught a good sunset before arriving late in Oaxaca.
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