Cantera Real Oaxaca

... the coast to <br>Puerto Escondido. This should have been an 8 hour journey which would have given me a few<br>hours to explore there before taking the nightbus to Oaxaca. However an 8 hour journey soon <br>became a 12 hour journey as the road had been blocked by a protest. We waited for an hour at <br>the stop that was before the blocked road before Drive said it was ok to move on. However we <br>soon hit the traffic jam and found out the protest was in fact still on. We ...

... not allowed to drive on Friday in the city due to the last digit of our TEXAS license plate. The polite policia also told us we would need to follow him to the policia station and pay a 4,000 peso (about US$285) fine before we could continue on our way out of the city. After about 45 minutes of poor English on the policia's part, even worse Spanish on our part, help of a passerby translator, and reductions in fines from US$285 ...

... complètement notre itinéraire. En plus que les routes sont vraiment plus longues que prévu. On ira sur la côte du Golfe du Mexique, région de Verracruz, au lieu de celle du Pacifique. Continuez de nous suivre sur notre blogue pour plus de nouvelles et de photos.  Tout le monde est maintenant en forme et heureux, avec une petit déception de ne pas voir tous les coins du pays qu'on avait planifié, mais bon, on a beaucoup de plaisir pareil !  La familia,  XXX

... one way or the other. <br><br>Because like Zacatecas, Oaxaca is at 5,000 feet, winter temperatures tend to hover around a high of about 18 degrees centigrade that raises the old debate &#8211; which is better? Is it the coastal towns with highs in the 30s or the interior highlands at 18 degrees during the day and around 8 degrees at night? In addition, there is the humidity on the coast that hit us like a ton of bricks especially in Puerto Vallarta.<br><br>Interestingly ...

Pretty good to get out of the manic city. Some great views from the bus of the mountains en route. Oaxaca much more mellow than Mexico City, old buildings and much warmer weather. Hostel was near a chilled cool park and pretty close to town. Visted our first Mayan ruin which was pretty amazing! Pictures below. Yet more locals trying to sell us stuff, they couldn´t seem to work out why neither of us would want a pair of local ...

... have Wi-Fi I don't have a security code to use it. So, we spent our morning exploring new parts of our neighborhood and going to ICO to get a Wi-Fi code we can use when we are at school. While we were there they encouraged us to go ahead and take our entrance exams, go through orientation, and pay our fees. This was a good thing to do but it meant that we were able to send e-mails to only our kids to let them know of ...

... looked past my snoring neighbor out the window. The countryside was exactly how I imagined, or had been showed in movies, in that the fields were a dull green color, like old asparagus and the buildings dilapidated but there were bright colors painted everywhere. Fantastic blues and greens and reds all over the place. There were also donkeys roaming the countryside, packs of dogs, horses randomly, lots and lots of cornfields, farmers in big hats, children running through ...

... 16, I'm not too excited but it should be interesting. So today I met up with Sheena and Nathan again to go to the Botanical Gardens but when we got there it was closed on Sundays so we I suggested the stamp museum because a couple of people told me it was good. Well it was one of the worst museums I've ever been to! I mean seriously how could stamps be interesting? Maybe if I was a mail man I would have like it but it was not fun. Afterwards Sheena and I went to eat ...

... jeans or capris. No one wears shorts or spaghetti straps really, so you could imagine the looks I was getting today not to mention some whistles J After shopping I had some pizza right by my house it was actually way better than American pizza. There is no air conditioning anywhere! I really don't know how they do that. I'm really going to lose some weight probably I have to do a ton of walking and my mom cooks healthy too. I'm already picking up some more ...

... Oaxaca and an escape from the norm that we have come to know as El Instituto Cultural Oaxaca. Time aplenty was to be spent in the town and it's not until around 1pm that the ball we started rolling towards Hierve el Agua picks up speed again. The resemblances to south-east Asia, for example, are, at times, remarkable. From the mototaxis to the market vendors, from the canopied, bench-seated utes to the way they are driven along ...