Oaxaca Hostels

... entertaining. It will chart my adventures around Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Nearly 5 months of dodgy buses and smelly hostels - yay! I will try and keep you all updated as often as possible with a diary in photos. Anyway, see you in ...

... . Everyone in the girl's dorm was asleep and I felt bad for coming in the middle of the night! The next day I did laundry, changed hostels and walked around the city. It really felt removed from the rest of the cities I've been to in Mexico - kind of way ...

... over a fresh limonada. Following on from my initial accommodation woes, I decided I was perhaps being a bit hasty at ruling out hostels so visited the one described in the guide book as "immaculately clean and well run". I visited it, Hostal Paulina, ...

... -booked any accommodation so we picked up a map from the bus station and headed straight to the main square.  We tried a few hostels but they were charging too much money.  After an hour of walking around we found a nice little hostel called Don ...

... our target hostel. It seemed nice. Glanced at the roster and saw Heathers name, quite a suprise as there are many many hostels here. During the early morning we walked around the very quiant downtown and had a nice omelette breakfast (and coffee). Back ...

... hills and darkness fell we appeared to get stuck by roadworks. The shadows of the hills looked impressive! Unfortunately our lateness meant our hostels were full, but eventually 3 hostels later and a flat tyre we found a nice local one. The rooms did ...

... camp we had finally arrive at our destination of Oaxaca. So after flagging down a cab to take us to one of the hostels pinned on the notice board of Rodolfo, which happened to have possible the lumpiest mattress ever, coupled with a dogs blanket for a ...

... shift of our coming and set up our room for us. They´ve only opened in November and it is easily one of the best hostels I´ve ever stayed in. The bed was comfortable, sheets freshly laundered, spacious lockers for our things and in the morning, ...

... decided to leave tonight for Villahermosa to see another crazy mexican civilisation that built massive heads, the Olmecs!!!! After booking our bus ticket we found that the town has hardly no hostels so we are going straight to Palenque the following ...

... for a couple of nights then Hotel Chocolate is an excellent choice - all for the same price. Many of the Hostels in Oaxaca were charging 100 Peso for a dorm, yet here you would be paying the same for a much better room with cable TV, ...

... in a place called The Magic Hostel. The reason why Katie and I thought it was magic was because the owner had a puppy. All hostels should have one because she was just a bundle of energy and entertainment. The puppy took a particular shine to Katie's hair ...

... by the time I reached San Cristobal. There were quite a few hostel touts waiting outside the bus terminal. Seems there's no shortage of hostels and hotels here.   Shared a taxi with Andrew and had a quick look at his hotel. Way too pricey at $24 a ...

... der Hammer. Am Abend haben wir mit ca. 20 Israelis Hanuka gefeiert. Ubernachtet haben wir in Haengematten in einem der tollsten Hostels in dem ich gewesen bin. Mit Schwimmen im eiskalten Fluss jeden Morgen. Und dem besten Essen seit langem. Kein Wunder, ...

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