Hotels in Oaxaca - Prices and Reviews

Apres un long trajet de serpentins sans fin, nous nous sommes retrouves dans cette petite ville cotiere avec vue unique sur une raffinerie de petrole. De nuit on se croierait en face de New York, tellement c est illumine. Une journee etape ou nous nous sommes arretes avant de traverser la frontiere soit disant dangereuse du Guatemala...rien de s...

Well no trip report from MX would be complete with out a discussion on Topes. We North Americans would refer to them as Speed bumps. If you drive in Mexico you will quickly learn not to ignore any sign that looks like or is spelled like tope. I have seen them called Tope, Tope, Topas, and Reductors. All are designed with one thing in mind, to sl...

Day 9 - More historic Oaxaca sights, then onto 'Tehuantepec' in the narrowest part of Mexico! Awaking, trying not to electrocute ourselves by charging the camera in the shower (the only place a plug was!), we set off to view some more ancient sights around the city. The massive 17th century 'Basilica de La Soledad' was stunning inside with a gol...

Finally on the road again and it was an interesting adventure from the get go. I traveled from Mazunte via camionetta for 30 minutes to get to the town of Potchutla to catch the "big girl bus" to Tehuantepec for an overnight and then on to San Cristobal De Las Casas the next day. About half way through our trip we hit a road block, and when I sa...

Coffee, Flan, and a little friendship make the wee hours manageable.

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 to village. Accommodation was really cheap, right on the beach, with hammocks to laze away the days. ...

I stopped overnight in a town called tehauntepec because i didnt want a 14 hour bus ride. I had a pretty good time there went to a few restaraunts took some pictures. I also got talking to some mexican university students, who wanted to practice their english, all girls and all very attractive. The town is very different from the rest of the pla...

Hola mes amigos How is all in the land of the living ? We left the surf haven of Puerto Escondido 3 days ago and endured a lovely 14 hour night bus journey into the mountains to the beautiful town of San Cristobal de las Cases. The buses in Mexico land have been reasonably ok. For each of the 3 long distance journeys we´ve made so far, we´ve sat...

The bus stopped at Pochuatla a bit away from the coast. I took a so called colletivo bus which cost 8 pesos that's in contrast to a cab which would have been around 200 pesos. Stayed at a place called Lola(120 pesos). I had view over the ocean and a fan no mosquitoes and my own toilet. There wasn't much to do in Zipolite than sunbathing. They wo...

My new German friends are Simon and Benjamin and we´ve travelled by minibus from Puerto to Zipolita, which is a small beach village known for it´s riptide, naked sunbathers and cannabis. It´s also well know for the number of stoned naked sunbathers that get sucked out to sea and drowned by the riptide. Another nasty surprise is the petty theft t...