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Oaxaca<\/a> is a place I have been to countless times, but always leave wanting to go back.\u00a0 No wonder I was eager to bring the crew, so they could experience all that I kept telling them about. And mostly, so they could help me capture it to bring to you.<\/p>\n

My series director, Dan, must have been dizzy from me telling him how things are \u201cdifferent”\u00a0in Oaxaca so many times. There is something in the air, and there is something in the way the light hits Oaxaca. It makes everything you think is familiar gain a completely different dimension. Maybe that is why Oaxaca is one of Mexico’s main cradles of art.<\/p>\n

The blue in the sky seems a deeper shade of blue. The green in the plants, mountains and herbs looks more intense and has more saturated hues of green. When you wake up in the morning and open a window, the air smells fresher and feels more crisp. The sun shines brighter. And the word \u201cdiverse\u201d has never had a better match.<\/p>\n

Oaxaca is one of the – or the – most ethnically and culturally diverse places in all of Mexico. It has eight defined and distinctively different regions and 18 ethnic communities – each with their own culture, cuisine, language and pre-Hispanic forms of self governance and organization for life and society.<\/p>\n

To put it simply, as my dad would say, Oaxaca is another world.<\/p>\n