Oaxaca is colorful to say the least. From the facades of the small houses in the city center, fruits and vegetables at the local markets, to immensely beautiful weaving of carpets with natural dye colors and candles in the village of Teotitlán del Valle, where Panteleon Ruiz and doña Viviana Alvarez showed and told us the history of their crafts. The colors of the earth, from the clay used by Paco, his wife, son and helpers to make their beautiful ceramics, polished with rose quartz and other stones found in the nearby river. The sound of a big band leading them, girls and women — Chinas Oaxaqueñas — dancing through the streets of the city center, with flower dresses, long braided hair, big flower arrangement carried on their head and even bigger smiles. The China Oaxaqueña symbolizes and pays respect to the working women, typically found in the city’s markets like Mercado de Abastos or the big market outside town, Mercado Tlacolula, both places you’ll see most women and girls in dresses like this; colorful, beautiful and eye-catching.