Rincon del Pacifico Puerto Escondido

... up for some action, but she was fairly ordinary, and i wasnt drunk enough to consider it, plus, why come all the way to mexico to sleep with what you can get at home. We crawled into bed about 5am. So not much of a day, a long bus trip and a big bender! This was the last night of semana santa before everyone had to start heading home for school and work, so things were packed, but quietened down the rest of the week. 12th April Woke up hung over and went down for a swim. Almost no ...

... die Waerme hier. Am Wochenende haben wir keinen Unterricht und nutzen die Zeit, um uns Puerto und seine vielen anderen Straende mal naeher anzuschauen. Aber der absolute Hoehepunkt unserer Zeit in Puerto ist ein Ausflug mit einem kleinen Boot vor der Kueste, um nach Delfinen zu suchen. An diesem Tag fahren wir sehr weit hinaus und es scheint eine Ewigkeit im offenen Meer. Wir sind schon fast auf dem Rueckweg als in der Ferne ploetzlich ...

... room with walls - so quiet and mosssie free - luxury. Other benefits included oceanview private balcony & bathroom, shared cable TV, kitchen, pool & terraces - probably the best value of anywhere I had been to date. Ending up staying there 8 days in total.   PE, for a non-surfer, with all the events & local attractions, managed to keep me pleasantly occupied for that time, though I did stretch my stay a bit to put off heading to the hills and hence the cold ...

... who were guests there - Harriet and Adam (later to become friends) and we showed the next guests - Aussies, Steve and Lauren (also to become friends) to theirs. And that's how the London Bridge Hotel gets by - on the generosity of fellow travellers who know what it is like to fall off a night bus shattered and turn up to a pre booked hotel with noone there to check you in. Whenever Steve was around he'd be shouting at ...

... Sure enough, after 45 minutes, I started passing similar stands, and then - this was it! I pulled over in the twilight to see the same girl sitting there. She started talking animatedly but I couldn't understand her, then she reached up onto a shelf and pulled down my wallet. Holy ****! I was so happy I thanked her in terrible Spanish and told her how I had ridden all the way to Zipolite an then came back and she laughed. She handed be the wallet ...

... that these are archetypical waves and even watching the surfing was legendary. It did rain and cool things off during the sunset though, clouds rolling in from inland. The day was spent with Ale and Franck and Camille, two of the endless numbers of French people floating around the hostel and town. It was this weird mix of French, Spanish, and English between us, as neither of the French people spoke English (or didn't admit to it) and Ale doesn't speak French ...

... will be moving on anyway. I know this freaks a few of you out, but I expect these sort of things to happen. It reminded me of the time I found an iguana in my bedroom in NOLA. Now THAT freaked me out. This....not so much so. I have to make some serious decisions soon about what and where next. The rainy season is almost upon us and I need to decide where I will go to avoid being hunkered down for several months ...

... and the fares were only ever two or three dollars at a time. There really are so many cactuses along streets and in restaurants, though as we took the bus to the next town along the coast there weren't as many but inland would be different. Its dry season at the moment and it really is. Dry. And season. Ok I'm in a silly mood. Ahem. So we left Puerto Escondido early and walked to the bus stop (yay us!) and got the bus that was conveniently there to our next port of call, Mazunte.

... a while. A Mexican gentleman who we spoke to at one point and who was pulling a sailboat said Mexico and their Topes are like Minn. and their lakes. Minn. has 10,000 lakes and Mexico has 1,000,000 Topes. The reward for all that effort was the extraordinary views of pristine Pacific beaches with rolling white surf in curving bays of aquamarine water. This was not developed land, but long stretches of palm and other forests climbing up the mountainsides and back down ...

... can be dangerous, due to a drop off that creates rip tides and/or bad undertows. Zicatela has a multitude of restaurants and shops all along the road and on the beach, which is quite wide and beautiful. We got the impression that Zicatela is a bit more up-scale than the other main beach, Marinero, where the 'harbor' is and closer to where we were staying. Terry claims that there must be more eating establishments in Mexico per ...