Dainzu to Tlacochatuaya

View of Dainzu

Friday's  hike took us to Dainzu.  The ruins here are older than Monte Alban.

 Dainzu is twenty miles SE of the city of Oaxaca and the people who once lived here had close connections with the citizens of Monte Alban and Mitla.  It's a pleasant spot, resting in the Tlacolula Valley.  Rio Salado runs through the valley and in Zapotec times the land was fertile, and appears to be today, as well.