Blogs from Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America - page 8

October 29-October 31 Oaxaca is a six hour bus ride from Mexico City, so basically my entire day on October 29, was spent traveling. I arrived in Oaxaca just before dark and I took a taxi with a kid I met from Wales. His name was Henry and he is a graffiti artist who is traveling around Latin America for a year looking for work painting murals...cool stuff! For the next five nights I would be staying at the Hostel Don Nino. Don Nino was quite a clean hostel and lucky for me I was the first person to arrive in my 8 bed dorm so I had my choice of a bunk. Later that night I met a few people and three of us ended up at a club/bar called Rincon. Rincon was not a ... read more

Well getting ready to fly to Mexico for a trip to Oaxaca. I have been to Oaxaca before but never for Day of the Dead. Really looking forward to seeing all the different Art, Parades and just overall Festivities. They really do it up there and suppose to be the busiest week of the year for Oaxaca. I will be traveling from mexico City by bus (Yikes 7 hours!) I will be traveling with Nick (for those who don't know him check Italy Blog). We are doing this on quite a budget but planning to have lots of fun. Did get a pedometer for the trip as I plan on walking a lot! It will be fun to document miles walked everyday. We will be staying at a popular older Hotel called the Hotel Monte Alban, ... read more

Hey readers, here is our next installment: Wednesday we went back to school -- cooking school. Our great B&B hosts hooked us up with Carla, who runs private cooking lessons from her home in Oaxacca. First, she met us at our B&B to accompany us to the local market, just minutes away. Here, we picked up all the ingredients we needed for our lesson and admired the ones we didn't. Lots of fresh produce, probably sold by the people who grew it, along with all the extras you would expect at a market -- baked goods, grasshoppers, good things to eat. We then drove to her home and started the lesson. We cooked an appetizer of local cheese fried in some kind of leaf (the cheese was squeaky on our teeth when we ate it, and ... read more

szisztok, jo reggelt na vegul megerkeztem oaxaca/ba, ami oaxaca allam fovarosa. reggel pakolas, majd a szokas taxizas a buszpalyaudvarra, aztan buszra pattantam. 5 orassa valt a 4,5 oras ut, mert utat epitettek.amikor megerkeztem ismet taxi, majd erkezes a hotelbe. miutan kipakoltam lementem avarosba. kicsit felfele vana hostel, tehat visszafele hegymenet. felterkepeztem magamnak a varos. vigiszaladtam az egeszen 1 ora alatt.. persze nem fotoztam es nem emntem be a templomokba. azt majd csak vasrnap. holnap ugyanis kirandulni mregyek a kornyeken. holnap utan meg monte alban.vasarnap lesz csak varosnezes, aznap este megyek tovabb. fizetek meg 22 pesot nekik, es mindent/tust, stb hasznalhatok a hostelben. a buszom este indul. mar megvettemm ra a jegyem meg puebla/ban.k..va draga volt az aggya alakithato uleses busz.. de mivel a labom sz....r nem akarom h kikeszuljon.egyebkent a detralex... read more

Buenos tardes, Just a quick entry...post dip in the pool and after a lovely cerveza ;) As predicted (and promised) Oaxaca is a nice spot to visit. This time of year seems perfect, the rainy season is mostly over so the city is lush and the festivals are in full bloom. Monday when we arrived we had tickets to the 80th annual Guelaguetza (regional dance festival of sorts). On our way up to the hilltop venue we stopped for our first mole. It was delicious! Just as we were finishing the next reservation (local celebrities) had arrived and excused us from our table with photos and a Mezcal shot. Nice to meet the dancers up close! Walking up the hill was fun too - lots of food to buy on the street. We polished of a ... read more