Nola's Journal: Last pictures of our Book of Mormon Lands Tour with Blake Allen

We stopped in a small town to get something to eat and this statue of a man in a sapodilla tree getting the sap to make gum was on the corner.

a momument to the chiclets gum industry

Venders were selling this gum in the streets as well

A street market we drove by. There were selling the fresh fish they had caught that day.

I love seeing these real Mexican parrots. So very colorful.

In the city of Oaxaca we went to a black pottery shop. This man's grandmother, as he told us developed the technique to make black pottery. He carries on the tradition.

This is the kiln where they used to fire the pottery

I like the old tradition mud/clay bricks that this building is made of. It is the pottery shop and factory.

The city of Oaxaca is below as seen from Monte Alban. Alban means white. The tree to the left side has white blossoms. When all the trees on the mountain are in bloom it appears that the mountain is white and hence the name Monte Alban.

Over the centuries civilizations of people have removed the top of the mountain to make it flat. They have build a city with huge pyramids and buildings of all sorts including playing fields, tombs and an observatory.

It would have been a monumental effort to move all the dirt off the top of the mountain to make it flat and then build a city of huge proportions.

ball field

An underground tomb. All goods had long been removed.

After the city of Oaxaca and Monte Alban we drove to our hotel near lake Catemaco. Our tour was supposed to go to the Hill Cumorah but it was a rainy cloudy day. Blake Allen said the best we could do would be to get up early the next morning and see if the cloud cover had cleared off Cumorah.

We boarded the bus at 6:00 AM and drove the 45 minutes to Cumorah. He asked me to give the morning prayer for the day and I fervently prayed that the clouds would part and we would have a good view of Cumorah.