Discovering Authentic Mexico
00:00:00.000 | Oaxaca and San Cristobal de las Casas are two of the most beautiful mountain towns where
00:00:04.840 | indigenous pre-Columbian culture is most intact.
00:00:07.760 | The beauty of Oaxaca is the fact that it has this really strong pre-Columbian indigenous
00:00:13.720 | cultural roots that are still living on strongly to this day.
00:00:18.280 | And you've got people, these are Mixtec and Zapotec people that are still speaking their
00:00:26.680 | native languages, and these are artisans, and these are farmers, and they're people
00:00:31.560 | that are producing mezcal, they're producing handicrafts, they're farming the land, they're
00:00:36.440 | living very much traditional lifestyles that have gone on for centuries.
00:00:40.560 | And the indigenous roots, the pre-Columbian culture lives on so strongly that it influences
00:00:45.680 | everything about it.
00:00:46.920 | And really it's hard to find such a pure evolution and a real organic evolution of the indigenous
00:00:55.560 | culture into contemporary life.