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Travel Blogs from Puerto Escondido
Mexico - Puerto Escondido
What LP says: The ‘Hidden Port’ has blossomed into one of the most enjoyable spots on the whole of Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Still very much a fishing and market town, Puerto Escondido is famed above all for the legendary surf break known as the Mexican Pipeline. Along with its surf scene, Puerto has several calm beaches good for …
A Bitter Sweet Weekend
... to the local zòcolo to experience the fiesta there as we had heard that celebrations like those in Mexico City would be taking place in every town and village across the country! It was such a fabulous atmosphere, with traditional dancing, fairground rides and of course plenty of food stalls scattered about the place.
It was after we returned that my weekend took a bit of a turn for the worse as my handbag was stolen. It was my own stupid fault for not putting back ...
The Farting Dog And The dead Rat
... thrown in the bin with all the other domestic detritus. I wonder if there is room in there for a gloating cat and a ******* dog?
Otherwise that was about as exciting as Puerto Escondido got. So after the second day a swift exit was organised via the long distance OCC bus company and we jumped aboard an air conditioned bus to travel to San Cristobel de Las Casas overnight. It was an animal free bus although I wasn’t too sure about the snoring pig behind ...
Lost and Found...The Beach Cronicles
... gets alot of attention from a local cougar (and scored her email) and we met a crazy Aussie who claimed that the english flag had a swastika and that we could go to war with australia, and if we did - we'd loose! Crazy guy, but we thought we'd leave it as we didnt want to start an international incident!We awoke the next day not as early as we would have liked, determined to get in some surfing, so we headed for the nearer beach, Carrizalilo, which has tamer waves for our inept ...
Ala Mexicana
... to ask for directions we turned off the HWY onto a bumpy, dusty, one lane road to the tiny town of Barra De La Cruz. Our friend (and resident chef) from Victoria, Jake had already set up camp at a little place we later named 'Rancho Relaxo'. That night we walked across the road to a local families house where they cooked us dinner and showed us videos of Mexican Rodeos - very hospitable people and a nice insight to how ...