Hotel Paraiso Escondido Puerto Escondido

... here. The conquistadors were not that bright it seems, as they built the ´modern' day Mexico city on a lake. Now I´'m no engineer but even I could have told them that would cause problems down the line. Loads of the buildings are on a massive lean as they sink slowly into the spongy soil. I went up a tower to get a better view of the city, but there wasn´t much to see thanks to all the smog. In the evening it was time to try some Mexican cooking. Once I had explained that I don´t eat ...

... folks with carts standing in the middle of the four-lane highway), power plants, and factories, to Teotihuacan. Teotihuacan is the site of an ancient city, so old that the Aztecs discovered it already abandoned when they moved into the Mexico valley and founded Tenochtitlan on the site that is now Mexico City. Teotihuacan is still very much a mystery to archeologists, and new digs are uncovering deeper, buried remnants of even older cities below the ...

... orrore.<br>Per il resto del giorno ci limitiamo a camminare lungo i viali del centro, al momento di salire in camera ci accorgiamo della fatica di essere a 2200 mt, l'ostello è subdolo tu credi di dover salire al terzo piano, ma loro hanno due piani non conteggiati (dove c'è la cucina e l'altro con la sala tv) così in realtà devi arrivare al quinto. Dobbiamo organizzarci bene, perchè una volta scesi, se ti accorgi di aver dimenticato qualcosa, sono tutti cavoli tuoi risalire!!

... camera is gone, it´s a **** camera which we were planning on replacing anyway, it´s all the photos that I´d taken that day and in Oaxaca and Mexico. All gone, no chance of getting them back. gggrrrrr!!! Nothing we can do about it though, very annoying!<br><br>Two pink little bunnies had a very hot night´s sleep that night.<br><br>Thursday 27 Aug 2009<br><br>Brian was still very pink the next morning so we decided to skip the beach and take ...

... tropical fishys as the surf pounded in. We all enjoyed a lovely fresh fish meal under a palapa (thatched roof shelter), flew kites on the beach and did some shelling while others relaxed in hammocks swinging in the cool shady ocean breeze. Another day we journeyed a short distance north of Puerto E to a lagoon where we rented a boat with guide and went on a bird watching excursion. It was great - lots of shore bird varieties and saw some neat flowers - even got out to the ocean at one ...

... it is not an easy town to walk around in due to its elevations<br><br>Given what I just wrote, how could we rate it one of our top picks on the coast?<br><br>The answer lies in a number of factors: <br><br>- it is the antithesis of the big resort towns<br>- it is very Mexican but yet lacks the &#8220;yikes&#8221; factor which I describe as the cultural shock so prevalent in some parts of Mexico<br>- it is expat/tourist friendly<br>- because of its ...

HE SAID: The highlight of today was our boat excursion to check out some of the other beaches nearby.  They were all ok (just like PE).  On the way to the beaches, our driver spotted a turtle and then jumped out of the boat to catch it.  This turtle was about as big as my ...

... Anyway, to get down the beach you have to descend about a billion stairs (which I think might be a bit of a deterrent for some people).  The beach looked mostly occupied by locals (which was nice).  The walk down was worth it.   It's a very small beach but it had flavour and vive that other areas around Posada Real seemed to be lacking.  Daddy rented a ...

... the third stage is Option de Vida (finding the children a place to live). Before I was working in Central de Dia and I was beginning to get a bit bored of the the same routine and was forming an opinion (which was not always welcome!) so it is so nice to have a change. The street work is so different and is not as tiring as the Centre as you have not got children jumping on you all you day, although I do miss the constant interaction at times. I ...

... we got the subway across to the Zolcalo so see the flag being lowered but it started raining so we went for a drink while we waited and that took so long we ended up missing the flag lowering. Typical. We headed back to the hostel stopping for pot noodles on the way and discussed staying in and not holding our promise to Daniel, however, over our highly nutritious dinner we felt too guilty so went back down to the bar. We were so worried about ...