Highlight: Las Pyramides de Los Zapotecas (Monte Alban)

7 kilometres up a hill from Oaxaca City, the capital and biggest city in the mountainous Mexican state of Oaxaca, lies the ruins of the capital city of the Zapotec people. It is known today as Monte Alban.

Relatively invisible looking up from the bottom, and with excellent views all around from the top. It is quite an impressive feat of architecture to say the least.

Whoever the Zapotecas really were is beyond what I think we can truly comprehend. They are certainly intriguing for their majestic constructions, as well as the mystery and the beauty of whats left of their time.

According to the information written next to these slabs, they were supposedly made to represent the fallen leaders of the Zapotec rival communities.

Being at the site fills one with wonder. Despite the fact that today it has essentially turned into a large museum filled with camera snapping tourists, like myself, it still makes you wonder what it was like back in the day of the Zapotecas.