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Day 22 - Puerto Escondido, Bus to Mexico City
Published: January 27th 2006North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
December 26th 2005
It's time to leave this excellent little town on the Mexican coast, it was definitely a good decision staying here over Christmas (and getting a tan). Before leaving we went to Zicatela to swap our books at a local 2nd hand bookstore, walked back along the beach watching more of the huge surf and had lunch at El Cafecito again. At 8:30pm we got the bus to Mexico City which travels via Acapulco, so technically we did get to Acapulco but didn't see it!... read more
December 26th 2005
also as a way to update where i have or have not been, I spent a week this past summer working in TJ (Tijuana as the rest of the world knows it) building a house for a family. It was crazy, because we were only about 30 minutes from the border of California, and only about 45 minutes from my house on the other side of that border, and yet all the houses in this area were made with garage doors, scrap wood, whatever they could come up with. And here we were actually building a frame for the house, and putting up stucco, and taring the roof to make sure it didn't leak... they had the nicest house on the block, built in a week, by a bunch of kids from just across the border... ... read more
Day 21 - Puerto Escondido, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Published: January 27th 2006North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
December 25th 2005
Merry Christmas !! We walked along the coastline today from Bahia Principal to Puerto Angelito around the peninsula. A stepped path takes you along the edge of the coast through rocky coves and to more beaches, with a view of the lighthouse. Puerto Angelito was ridiculously crowded so we walked on to Playa Carrizalillo and this time we descended down the mountain of steps to the small beach for a swim until sunset. Later we had dinner at a place called 'Mangos' at Playa Zicatela.... read more
Day 20 - Puerto Escondido
Published: January 27th 2006North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
December 24th 2005
Another chance to see the Crocodile Lagoon, another day getting up late, another day not being arsed to get a bus miles out of town. We did a bit of organising instead and tried to sort out our bus journey back to Mexico City. Got really lost trying to find the bus terminal and nearly walked to the airport instead! When we did find the terminal they didn't accept credit cards so we had to walk all the way back into town anyway! Oh what fun in the burning heat. (It turns out that the Crocodile Lagoon wasn't far from the airport but we didn't know at this stage :p) Back to the beach again for the afternoon, watching the surf and the sunset.... read more
December 23rd 2005
At about 10:15 finally we took off after 45 minutes delay.. I was already feeling very sleepy. The Starbucks feeling had already started to wear off. Since I have nothing else to do for the next 3 hours, I have decided to learn some Spanish and read about Yucatan. I should get ready for Cancun. Once I land, I should go straight to the bus station. Catch the ADO bus to Cancun bus station and then the 2:00 clock ADO first class bus to Valladolid. We land at about 12:00 PM. The immigration was pretty much nothing. Customs? Well, while the US is trying to figure it out with dogs and people, the Mexicans has already the advanced high-tech systems in place. They have this, traffic light looking system in place.. You walk over there and ... read more
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December 23rd 2005
Segundo clase? other counter´ he grunted.. I wasn´t sure what he said. So I repeated.. I need a first class ticket to Valladolid at 2 PM. He finally understood, I am clueless. In broken english... he repeated that there are no more tickets but he can give me second class. That´s what want senor. He decided to give me the second class ticket instead of asking me to go to the other counter. 70 pesos... not bad. It was only about 1:15 PM and I have about an hour or more kill. So I walk around watching people. May be there are some people who are going to Valladolid. There was a big sign at one end of the terminal that said ¨DEPARTURES´ There is a huge crowd waiting in front of it. But the man ... read more
December 23rd 2005
After a long, tedious bus journey bus (speed bumps in all of the many villages) I eventually arrrived in Palenque. However, the road was through lush jungle and numerous Indigenous villages and it´s interest couldn´t be denied but a long bus journey is a long bus journey and I´ve done many in my time. With this being a fairly major road with steep cliffs either side, one rising the other falling, the imaginative folk had built road sides stalls on stilts in order to reclaim some of the lost slope and allow them to catch the passing trade. They looked kinda fragile and I´m not sure whether I would want to live there, especially with the frequency of rain in the region. In between the hamlets, small children carried wood or water on the back along ... read more
Day 19 - Puerto Escondido, beach again :-)
Published: January 27th 2006North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
December 23rd 2005
We were going to go to Crocodile Lagoon, but as we got up late we decided not to go. The local tourist agent had actually directed us to a completely different lagoon miles away, so I'm glad we didn't go! Therefore we were forced to spent another 'terrible' day on the beach, in the sun, and being a gluton for punishment I went bodyboarding again.... read more
Day 18 - Puerto Escondido, Louisa's injury!
Published: January 27th 2006North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
December 22nd 2005
Went to the beach today and hired bodyboards for a couple of hours where Louisa showed great promise until she was washed under and sustained third degree friction burns to her abdomen! I continued on until the surf because too powerful (and I was too knackered). The beaches along Puerto Escondido are famed for their excellent surf, particularly on Playa Zicatela which is a magnet for expert surfers who can ride through tubes of water. Even Playa Principal where we went bodyboarding has large waves very close to the shore. You can stand with the water up to your knees and a wave can come over your head! In the evening we ate at El Cafecito which had good food a cool jazzy band playing. We also found a gecko in our bathroom which turned out ... read more
December 21st 2005
Que Onda? Mexico is still going great and this next segment is about my recent trip to Guadalajara. The city of Guadalajara is huge there are some 7 million folks there with malls, cars, clubs, fast food, pimps, bums, and stoplights just like any big U.S. city. Guadalajara is home to Tequila and Mariachi music. We traveled by bus, which is the easiest way to travel here in México. The bus tickets only ran $23 each and the ride itself was only 4 hours from Guanajuanto. In addition to the ride being cheap, it included a small sack lunch and they showed movies (Man on Fire and Spiderman 2) Once in the city of Guadalajara, I instantly felt at home, well with the exception that we were like the only black people and everyone spoke Spanish, ... read more
