For those planning to return to Oaxaca in the nearish future, relax about the required PCR or Antigen tests required to repatriate to your homelands. Several local labs, using WhatsApp to book, will send a health professional to your place of lodging, take the test in the morning, even take your credit card and by mid-afternoon the results are emailed to you. Costs vary between 1,000 – 2,000 pesos.
Oaxaca still abides by safe distance and wearing face-masks in public places (once seated in a restaurant it can be removed but if you get up from your table it should be put on). Gel is offered upon entering all establishments and it’s common to have your temperature taken with a zap gun. Otherwise life carries on in much a normal fashion.
Some museums and archeological sites are open. All the craft villages are receiving visitors and the ethnobotanical garden is offering almost daily tours in either Spanish or English.
There is definitely tourism. Not hoards but a positive flow. Restaurants, shops, galleries and markets are all open and looking and tasting good.
On a personal note, I am very well. My son Gabriel is well, busy running Galería La Mano Magica. Casa Murguia looks lovely, already busy with guests which makes Maria Antonia happy because it keeps her busy – idle hands are the …….