Oaxaca and San Cristobal de las Casas are two of the most beautiful mountain towns where indigenous pre-Columbian culture is most intact. The beauty of Oaxaca is the fact that it has this really strong pre-Columbian indigenous cultural roots that are still living on strongly to this day. And you've got people, these are Mixtec and Zapotec people that are still speaking their native languages, and these are artisans, and these are farmers, and they're people that are producing mezcal, they're producing handicrafts, they're farming the land, they're living very much traditional lifestyles that have gone on for centuries.

And the indigenous roots, the pre-Columbian culture lives on so strongly that it influences everything about it. And really it's hard to find such a pure evolution and a real organic evolution of the indigenous culture into contemporary life.