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Goodbye Highland Towns, Drizzle and Cold Nights, Hello Pacific Coast, Relentless Heat and Mosquitos!

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February 12th 2010
Puerto Escondido After 6 days in beautiful Oaxaca, culminating in our succesful completion of not having more than one diarrhoeal episode within 24 hours within the first 17 days of our trip (there is a clue within that long and boring sentence), we decided to head for the Pacific coast, in particular to Puerto Escondido, a small port town with a few lovely beaches. We took the 6 hour mini-bus v ... read more

North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido

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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