Blogs from Oaxaca, Mexico, North America - page 7

Bad news.. it appears that all the pictures on my camera are now blurry.. it had been happening on and off for a while but its got to the point i am no longer using it :( i cant transfer pics from my phone to the computer without a bit of hassle so for the moment its blurry pics.. should hopefully just be for this post though I hadnt sunbathed since northern colombia (5 weeks ago maybe?) so I was delighted to hit the beach for the first time in ages. From Oaxaca we took a 7 hour mini bus over the hills in a very windy journey in order to reach the pacific coast, also deceptively the furthest south in mexico that we will go. (carribean is higher north interestingly). For once, we were arriving ... read more

Today was a very long day, 500km trip, leaving Mexico City for two days based in Oaxaca (pronounced Wahaka. What tha!). First we picked up the rest of our passengers for the next 9 days. 5 in total, 2 male Columbians & a retired couple from Brisbane & me. First stop was Puebla, Mexico’s fourth largest city after passing the immense, usually visible snow-capped volcanoes Popocatépetl (Smoking Mountain, 5464m) and Iztaccíhuatl (Sleeping Lady, 5230m). Didn't seem as impressive as I would have thought but you barely noticed that the highway had climbed to over 3000 mtrs so looked small in the distance. Near Puebla we visited the Santa Maria Tonantzintla temple with an amazing fusion of indigenous and Christian religious decoration. It is so over the top yet beautiful at the same time. No photos allowed ... read more

We made it through our last major border crossing in Central America back into Mexico. None of the borders were difficult to cross, maybe just a little hot and stuffy while we waited for our passports to be stamped. We made our way back to San Cristobal for a short visit because we really enjoyed it the first time around. While there, we ate delicious tacos at the market, made fresh guacamole from market ingredients and visited Vina de Bacco a cute downtown wine bar that has a glass of wine and a tapa for the equivalent of CAD1.80. The excitement of our time in town was the twister that hit in the shanty town just north of the hostel. From the roof we could see winds picking up corrugated tin walls from the houses, that ... read more

It's an area covered with history, tales and tragedy..... I've been to several ruins in Mexico and Central America in my travels.... Chichen Itza, Tulum, Copan, Yaxchitlan, Bonampak which sadly was before I started this blog and even sadder I didn't have a chance to write about them and get the pictures up before my External hard drive crashed last year in Vietnam :-(. Nevertheless, I made it to Oaxaca and got a chance to see the long awaited Monte Alban ruins! This is one of the cleanest sites I've been to much like Copan in Honduras, you could easily go by yourself for a bit cheaper price, but I booked it through the hostel I'm staying at in Oaxaca (Don Nino) and it costed 200 MX for a full day and included going to a ... read more

Hello there. I did not include in any of my last blog posts my visit to San Jose del Pacifico on the way to Masunte. Which worked out well actually because I passed through again with a little more exploration, so now I´ll recount both enchanted visits. And enchanted they certainly were. San Jose Part I: The Fog A group of young hooligans and I left Cielo Rojo in Oaxaca a few weeks ago (Mid June) to head to the coast. The group consisted of a couple english blokes and some nice young ladies from Nebraska. It was a fun crowd. The coast is about 7 hours from Oaxaca. Many people break it up by stopping half-way through in a small, magical town high the mountains called San Jose del Pacifico. San Jose was breathtaking, both ... read more