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Oaxaca Slideshow
Oaxaca
Travel Blogs from Oaxaca, Mexico
Bangers & cash
... Yorkshire Steve, neirther of us could speak spanish so it was a match made in heaven for travelling Mexico. Four of us in total headed southwestishy towards Oaxaca. Me, steve and a couple of swiss girls, Mya and Linda. In Oaxaca there ...
Oaxaca
... brilliant effort in our strides toward keeping our budget. I am jacked up for you guys to see the photos. Mexico City was cool, but Oaxaca is so sweet. I wonīt bore you trying to describe how cool it is. The people are ...
Chilly and Chocolate
... couple of weeks, and the climate has changed dramatically along with the scenery. From a somewhat chilly Mexico City, to mellow and mild Oaxaca, up into icy cold mountain temperatures, and back down to steamy tropical beaches again... and our scant ...
The journey to Oaxaca
Yesterday i left the hostel for Oaxaca, where I am attending a language course and staying with a host Mexicans family. The day did not get off to a good start as my alarm clock was broken so I woke up late. Once I had eventually got my stuff together ...
Tourist Spotting and Monte Alban
Accomodation here was pretty good with a pool. So I was straight in where I got talking to a slevenian tour group who shouted me a beer or two and gave me some local recommendations. Went out for dinner with the group and hit the sack fairly early ...
Colonial Wonderland
After the protestathon, I meandered around the gorgeous painted old town. I walked into a church called San Juan de Dios, right off of the zocalo. Inside you can hear music blaring from outside, birds trapped inside and murmurs of prayer. I was most ...
El Dia Final
... I got there. I did. The tree was big. There's no hugging that tree with fewer than 50 people. Getting back to Oaxaca was another challenge. I grabbed a collectivo, saying "A Oxaca?" as I boarded. The woman behind me said "The tourist didn't say where ...
MITLA AND THE FAT TREE by FYNN
I was not feeling too well this morning – possibly an overdose of exceptionally hot foods since arriving in Mexico which starts at breakfast with chili in my frijoles! So I will leave it to Fynn to tell you about today: "We drove to Mitla [a Zapotec ...
PLASTIC POLLUTION IN MOTHER EARTHS CANYON
We checked out of our hotel and said farewell to a delightful time in San Cristobal. As our flight was not until 5pm we had some time to continue exploring the region and we started off with a stop for a boat ride at Sumidero Canyon. This canyon ...
Mazunte
... por que no me habia conectacto, es por que me encuentro en las paradiciacas playas de Mazunte, los que ya conocen lo afirmar, pero bueno nadamas quiero que sepan que estoy bien y maņana andare por la ciudad de Oaxaca, saludos a todos y hasta la ...
Oaxaca
... . We had already checked out of our hotel, our bus didnīt leave until late that night, and we didn't really want to wander athrough Oaxaca with our backpacks (we would have had to pay about a dollar an hour for each of us, and we had like 8 to 10 ...
Oaxaca Again
Well here I am back again. I am in the same hostel I was in before, and they thanked me for returning. My bus ride from SC was 12 hours. We stopped every couple of hours so people could climb on board and count us all. No funny business in Chiapas! At ...
1 day = 1 paragraph
... . If you ever feel like mailing me something, I recently found out my address: Apdo. 21 Suc. Sta. Rosa Panzacola Oaxaca OAX 68039 Mexico The following is my last 6 days, organized by day. Enjoy! Saturday - I helped the Shavers prepare for ...
Big trees, black sauce and fresh mountain air
28th March 2010 Hotel Palmar, Oaxaca, Mexico (195 pesos) Quite pleasant now Juchitan – Tehuantepec (25 kms) Tehuantepec – Mountain pass (70 kms) wild camping Mountain pass – El Camaron (52 kms) Hotel Santa Elena (180 pesos) El Camaron ...
The Prodigal Son is coming home!
... 2 months (March 9th - May 9th.) But not before 16 more days of Arroz y Frijoles Fun! I am heading to Vera Cruz, Mexico tonight for a few days of Fiesta and Mexican Carnival. Then maybe I will head down South towards Chiapas (close to the Guatemala ...
Agustin's Cooking Class Experience
Katy and I meet Agustin around 12.00 to go to the market. He knows all the sellers and gets a good price. We buy some questionable chicken from a lady who thinks keeping the chopped off feet and decapitated heads in a basket on full display will ...
Waking and Dreaming
Looks like I will be on a plane in route to the good old USA in less then 10 hours! It's kind of a weird feeling? I always have doubts about what it will be like when I get home. Looks like I will be spending 2 months with my sister in New Orleans. She ...
OAXACA - "WA-HAH-KA"
Priests arrived late at night in Oaxaca, Mexico's richest state in terms of history, culture, archeology and ecology. But I didn’t give two figs to that at the moment as we had been squeezed into a two standard double-bedded room with four pillows ...
Sunning it up
We headed south realising that we only had a couple of weeks to top up our non existent tan. We've not really been anywhere hot for a while so it was like being on a real holiday. We really didn't do much apart from sunbathe and hop from village ...
Day 42
... wild tomato), tomatoes, peanuts, avocado leaves, and chocolate were incorporated. While moles can be found in many parts of Mexico, Oaxaca has the greatest variety including negro (black), colorado (red), coloradito (faint red), chichilo, verde (green), ...
Mangoes, mangoes and more mangoes
22nd March 2010 Hotel Modelo, Juchitan, Oaxaca, Mexico (200 pesos) Just right Arriaga – Juchitan de Zaragoza (by bus) Pijijiapan – Arriaga (115 kms) Huixtla - Pijijiapan (110 ms) Tapachula – Huixtla (45 kms) About the bus in a ...
Chocolate, cheese and balaclavas
31st March 2010 Hotel El Palmar, Oaxaca, Mexico Just right It has been rather hot again today after the past couple of days when the temperature dropped to a much less sticky 28C. But Im not complaining :) It is amazing how quickly you can get used to men ...
Ciudad de Oaxaca
Hola a todos! Hoy llegue a en la madrugada a la ciudad y despues de algunas horas de espera y busqueda de hostales, ya estoy establecido en el Mezkalito. Pues lo poco que he visto de la ciudad me ha gustado, ya subire algunas fotos, bueno ya dejo de ...
Oaxaxa A Nice Colonial Town
We got here late last night. In the moring we drove to the historic downtown for sight seeing. Again we saw a very nice colonial town with lots of effort and money put into the restauration. At the market we tried the grashopers again. It tastes very ...
chocolate and bugs
... of the group went to the museum of the city but because it was only in Spanish I thought I would wait for the Museums in Mexico City where I can understand what is displayed. Because of that I did miss out on the skull that is covered with lots of jade.. ...
Learning Spanish like crazy
... (a very rich hot chocolate drink), memalitas and tamales - all from scratch. On Friday evening we heard about a ceremony at a church in Oaxaca for blessing animals. We decided to check it out and we were glad we did as it was hilarious. Hundreds of ...
How can you beat this!!!!
... it was 7 days before both of us felt well enough to go explore. So we ended up having about 6 days of catching buses all over Oaxaca and exploring. Now the trick to buses is not so much knowing where you want to go , but in figuring out what bus you need ...