Blogs from Oaxaca, Mexico, North America - page 77

Tim, Reena and I headed out to the petrified waterfalls near Oaxaca - Hierve al Agua. In the same way that stalactites form over the course of millennia the fall of salty and slightly sulphurous water over the edge of a cliff had lead to the formation of these waterfalls. Very beautiful, I could have bathed in some of the pools that to this day still add to the impressive deposits. I must admit though that initially I had been expecting to see just plain normal waterfalls. Most of the day way used travelling to and from the waterfalls. Tim and Reena had been talking me into going down to the beach with them for a few days. I had agreed, Reena was also heading down to Guatemala, I could get to Quezaltenango earlier - and ... read more

In order to avoid "la papa" and the 22 million people who are trying to get to see the pope during his visit I decided to go to Oaxaca - pronounced Wahacka. A lively city of 400,000 people, many of them being from the indigenous people who live in the villages near by. The hostel Modena had adverts for one way trips from the hostel door to door to a Oaxaca hostel for the same price as a bus fair... it made sense, why struggle when you don't have to? The sixteen seat mini bus that picked me up from the hostel was clean and new. I said good bye to Robbie - he headed off to Veracruz the same day. I will see him again, hopefully in Central America - but if not Paris. A ... read more