Tule Tree Oaxaca

The moment I had been waiting for was finally here and I was to say good bye to Puerto and the boys and get on a bus to Oaxaca to meet Elle. After walking around in circles for a night and a day scratching my head and deciding what I didn't need, my back pack was finally repacked and I was ready to leave. I had read many forums and heard many …

I took a day-tour today. It's the easiest way to see few of the must-see spots in one go -- and be in a group for once.

I was lucky to sit right next to a fellow independent traveller, Jan. He's German and is taking a break from university

Tule Tree

This is our first stop. 30 minutes of just cruising around and of course …

... this blog, this post is really just a place to put the photos of a petrified waterfall called Hierve de Agua,the Tule Tree, a massive tree about 2000 years old that claims to be the world's most "stout" ... the trunk is enormous,  and the ...

... at the school. Other family visit days were spent doing and re-doing exciting things like eating Oaxacan food, visiting the Tule Tree, the rug village, the painted animal village, the black pottery village, Monte Alban, the Wycliffe Offices in Oaxaca, ...

... . Also visited the largest (by volume) living biomass on the planet (or so they say) which is a swamp dwelling sycamore called the Tule tree. It´s so big that it can only live in swampy areas because it needs so much water. It´s now surrounded by a ...

... and people travel from all kinds of surrounding villages to buy and sell their wares. I bought an awesome hammock. I saw the Tule Tree - the World's (at least the Western Hemisphere's) biggest tree (circumference). There's a whole town built around it - ...

... .  Our last stop before returning to Oaxaca was Santa Maria del Tule, a town whose entire local economy relies on a gigantic Tule Tree.  Over 2,000 years old and 58 meters in diameter, it's definitely a remarkable specimen.  Since the Pan ...

... desk in Oaxaca then go to each one. One of the best ones is in Oaxaca itself on Saturday I do believe. Going to visit the Tule Tree in the same named village is worth a small trip the Tree is huge and 2000 or 3000 years old, Get one of the little guides ...

... think that almost nothing we build today would never amount to anything in thousands of years. One last visit this week was the Tule tree. It is a tree that is 2,000 yrs old and as big as a house. It looks so weird b/c it's all droopy and wrinkly ...

... balloon from the group (which they were told they had to pay for after the event!) Our first stop of the day was at Tule tree - an enourmous tree, I forget the details as was walking around in a bit of a haze as was most of the group! Our next stop was ...

... to carry- a sweatshirt and two quirts (wanted a lucha libre mask, but will wait on that)- and going on a tour to see the Tule tree (widest tree in the world), Mitla (very elaborate Zipolite/Mixtec ruins where to walk down in to a tomb- so cool, in a ...

... once. I was lucky to sit right next to a fellow independent traveller, Jan. He's German and is taking a break from university  Tule Tree This is our first stop. 30 minutes of just cruising around and of course photo-taking. It's worth the stop to ...