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The Silk Route - Tlacolula, Mexico

Mexico: Tlacolula
July 2016

Tlacolula market

 

The colourful Sunday market at Tlacolula is vast and one of the best we visited.

 

Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market

 

The Sunday open air market (tianguis) in Tlacolula was very colourful - everything for sale from live turkeys to tables! This is one of the oldest markets in the region.

Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Not a clue what these are - beans maybe?

Tlacolula market
Grasshoppers - chapulines.
Tlacolula church
Inside the church.
Tlacolula market

The church, Iglesia de la Asuncion de Nuestra Senora, is a typical 16th century building with an ornately decorated Baroque interior, and some graphic depictions of saints.

Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Seeds
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market

 

Tlacolula market
Tlacolula market



Tlacolula market

 

Many people come from the surrounding towns and villages and it is an opportunity to socialize as well as to trade and stock up the larder. The typical dress of the local women included plaited hair, tied with coloured ribbons and bows.