My cabana

Puerto Escondido: chilling out and surfing

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November 6th 2008
Although it is only 8am when I arrive, the humidity is much worse then Oaxaca City and the 25 min trek with my rucsack to a cabana hostel, which I believe to be somewhere up the hill from the few kilometres long Zicatela beach, is a sweaty one. Got a cabana (like a wooden shed with electricity and hammock out front) for 3 GBP/night. Puerto Escondido is one of the handful of sleepy fishing villiage ... read more

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more