OAXACA
Most visitors to Oaxaca take an instant liking to this festive city and its nearby towns, villages, and historical sites. It's a charming and romantic place that may well become your favorite destination in Mexico.
Offering a unique combination of Indian, Spanish colonial, and Mexican cultures, Oaxaca simply looks and feels good.
Representing Mexico's largest Indian population, Oaxaca is an exceptionally inviting place to visit. It's cultured, laid-back, friendly, and simply fun to visit.
For travel-shoppers, Oaxaca may be the closest they get to a Mexican shopper's paradise. The city and nearby areas offer a dazzling array of quality arts and crafts with special emphasis on local folk art and related products: woodcarvings, rugs, pottery, terracotta figurines, ceramics, paintings, sculptures, baskets, embroidered clothing, woven belts, shawls, brocaded cotton blouses, and chocolate.
The folk art tradition here is very strong. Oaxaca is a place where art, culture, and shopping form a very special relationship that makes for a great travel-shopping adventure.
Our advice: Plan to spend at least three days here absorbing the area's many unique treasures and pleasures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Welcome to Surprising and Seductive Mexico
PART I: SMART TRAVEL-SHOPPING
- Know Before You Go
- Best Kept Secrets of Savvy Travel-Shoppers
PART II: GREAT DESTINATIONS
- Mexico City
- Taxco
- Acapulco
- Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo
- Manzanillo
- Puerto Vallarta
- Guadalajara
- Morelia, Patzcuaro, and the State of Michoacan
- Queretaro
- San Miguel de Allende
- Guanajuato
- Puebla
- Oaxaca
PRAISE FROM REVIEWERS
"...[The Krannichs] teach you where the best shopping is, what items to look for and how to judge their quality. They also teach shopping strategies, give bargaining tips and tell you how best to ship your treasures home....Serious shopaholics heading South of the Border should break out the plastic immediately, if not sooner."--Genre
"...Combines a travel guide with a shopper's guide to Mexico, combining historical insights with reviews of the 'best of the best' of the country's opportunities....Is recommended as an invaluable destination-oriented tote."--Library Bookwatch