{"id":40422,"date":"2020-03-17T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=40422"},"modified":"2020-03-17T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T21:42:42","slug":"monday-afternoon-at-mitla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/monday-afternoon-at-mitla\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Afternoon at Mitla"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Post 31 of 193. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

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The archeological site of Mitla was my only disappointing stop in both of the Lani tours I took — first, because I had such a hard time following what the guide was saying and second, because we didn’t get quite enough time.<\/p>\n

Mitla is the second most important archeological site in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico and the most important of the Zapotec culture. The most interesting fact I learned about Mitla is that about 90% of it is original and 10% reconstructed, while the opposite is true for Monte Alb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

Mitla is known for its mosaics, but not mosaics like I was expecting. They are made of tiny bits of stone that just fit together with no mortar and from a distance look like fancy brickwork.<\/p>\n

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Definitely not what I think of when I think of mosaic.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Monte Alb\u00e1n would have been this same colour, derived from mercury.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Entrance into a tomb…<\/p><\/div>\n

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The tomb was very claustrophobic and there was an unpleasant damp odour — but what a cool experience to crawl under what is basically a pyramid. Who needs to visit Egypt when they live in Mexico?!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The second tomb I visited had a little natural light.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I could have used an extra 20 to 30 minutes at Mitla — there were just so many people waiting to get into the tombs that it was do that or explore the rest of the site. But I still got to enjoy the mosaics and get a sense of what a complex built for habitation more than governance or worship was like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Post 31 of 193. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr!) The archeological site of Mitla was my only disappointing stop in both of the Lani tours I took — first, because I had such a hard time following what the guide was saying and second, because we didn’t get quite enough time. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40422"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40539,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40422\/revisions\/40539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}