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Oaxaca - Puerto Angel/Puerto Escondido

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Mar 12, 2012, 1:30 PM

I am planning a trip to Mexico DF and Oaxaca in early May. We will be spending a week in each, and I was hoping to spend a weekend by the beach. We have been told the turtle museum/general atmosphere nearby is amazing (and I'm not 100% sure of the actual location - but assume it's Zoplite??).

What is the best way to travel from Oaxaca to the coast? (I have read a few other posts, and both me and my Partner suffer from travel sickness.) What are (guide) prices in terms of travelling?

And where is better - Puerto Angel or Puerto Escondido (or somewhere else) to stay?

In terms of budget - looking to spend up to £150/200 for 3 nights accommodation (although for us to pay this much it'd need to be pretty special!), we're a 20-something couple, and are looking for somewhere with a great atmosphere, but not necessarily partying until the early hours. If the pricing of the accommodation is way off, let me know!

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1. Re: Oaxaca - Puerto Angel/Puerto Escondido

Mar 12, 2012, 2:05 PM

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Take a look at Un Sueño in San Agustinillo which is walking distance from the Turtle Museum in Mazunte. Go to the Hualtulco page and in the Top Questions on the right hand side read "What's west of the airport" for a flavour of the area. You can fly from Oaxaca to either Huatulco or Puerto Escondito or you can take a long winding bus ride to Pochutla and a $10 taxi from there.

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Mar 12, 2012, 9:35 PM

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For accommodations, best to look at the TA listings for both hotels, and bed & breakfasts and inns, for each location you intend to visit. You'll find detailed information, and especially informative and helpful the reviews by travellers. My suggestion is to find the lodgings which interest you, and then inquire about prices since the prices published on TA are by the establishments themselves, and often vary greatly based on season, type of room, A/C or not, level of tourism at the time, etc.

In terms of guides / prices, I can only speak for the city ofOaxaca and touring the central valley sights (ruins, craft villages, churches, ecotourism, etc). You can hop on a tour bus for a couple of hundred pesos each, use a taxi for roughly 120 - 150 pesos an hour, or hire a guide / driver for about $20 - $30 USD per hour.

Earlier today I posted in reply to a question about spending 7 days in Oaxaca in March, and included links to articles about pros and cons of the various touring options, so perhaps take a look at those links.

TIP: Since you suffer from motion sickness, even when flying take dramamine or other similar anti-nausea pills. The flight is breathtaking, but the planes are small.

Alvin Starkman - Casa Machaya Oaxaca Bed & Breakfast

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3. Re: Oaxaca - Puerto Angel/Puerto Escondido

Mar 13, 2012, 6:19 PM

Fly between Oaxaca and PE. Possible hotel in PE could be Arcoiris located on Zicatela where at that time you should be able to get a room on the hill for 50 to 60 dollars including breakfast. You can travel to the turtle museum by public bus.Allow half day for that trip and check for the days when the museum is open.Most restaurants in PE and Oaxaca offer dinner for around 120 to 150 pesos excluding alcohol. Oaxaca offers lots of tours at this time at discounted prices of 150 pesos.I am in Oaxaca now. Lots of hotels in historical district for around 60 dollars and it will allow you to walk to almost anywhere you will want to go.Travel light as baggage policy only allows for one bag and it is enough really.

A most enjoyable part of Mexico to enjoy and people are really friendly

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Sailor. Observer of all things on land and sea. Come aboard with Liz Chesney and my husband Chris as we sail south through Mexico and beyond. Our motto: we can spend 30 years sitting on the couch when we get back. But not now.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Watching and waiting in Huatulco

    We've been anchored in Bahia Santa Cruz in Huatulco for a few days now, preparing to cross the Tuhuanapec.  The anchorage here is shallow, comfortable and beautiful. We strongly recommend it!

                                                             Bahia Santa Cruz, Huatulco


We are waiting for a clear weather window to cross the Gulf of Tuhuanapec into the southernmost region of Mexico.

            The Isthmus of Tuhuanapec (the red line above) is where wind can accumulate and blow rather fiercely southward from the Carribean, across the small land bridge and into the Pacific. Crossing this area from northwest to the southeast is about 240 miles.

    We are waiting with several other boats for a good 3 day weather window, at which point we will all jump together to make the passage. Our plan is to leave on Sunday if the weather holds.

   But if we must wait SOMEWHERE, it is hard to imagine a lovelier place than Huatulco.

                                The lovely center square in Bahia Santa Cruz, Huatulco.
                                               These shady tables are Wi-Fi ready!

            Chris and I walked the two miles to the adjacent town of La Crucecita.

            The catholic church there is one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen. The walls and ceilings are covered with colorful murals by the artist Jose Angel del Signo.

                                     One of the ceilings inside the church at La Crucecita

                                     I was simply awestruck with the beauty of it.

          
                        After a long time seated in the magical granduer of the church,
                                       we explored the little town of La Crucecita.

  This friendly Huatulco fisherman proudly displays his t-shirt in this, my second in an occasional series: "Innocent Mexicans who unknowingly wear mildly inappropriate donated American t-shirts." :-)

                       The stairway up to Cafe Juanita in Huatulco promises everything
                                             that makes a cruiser's heart go pitter-pat...especially:

                     ...my Shangri-La. This titanic book exchange here at Cafe Juanita's
                           (where I write these words) brought tears of joy to my eyes...

                        I found this sign an existential puzzle. But that's always been my problem:
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Huatulco, a Mexican Holiday to Find Your Inspiration in Nature

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Huatulco, Mexico

The area of Huatulco, in the south of Mexico, has 330 days of sunshine a year, an average temperature of 28 °C and 22 miles of sandy beaches. Are you starting to think of your Mexico holidays already?

Wait, there’s a lot more to this place than data.
Most Huatulco resorts have a genuine feel about them, and a very different attitude from other popular Mexican names such as Acapulco and Cancun, whose fame often comes with larger crowds of tourists.

This is an area that has gone unnoticed for a long time, and it was only in the eighties that the Mexican government eventually decided to start developing it for tourism.

Bahia de Santa Cruz, Capilla de Santa Cruz and Playa Santa Cruz are the three main bays which are part of The Bahias de Huatulco, stretching over a total of 16 miles.

Bahia de Santa Cruz, the most central, has all it takes to satisfy tourist needs, with activities that include excursions, sailing, scuba diving, snorkelling and jet ski, while Playa Santa Cruz boasts the best and most celebrated beach of the area, with hot, white sands and crystalline water.

To get the best out of Huatulco, though, head west to find the kind of area where you can lose yourself in nature, away from mass tourism.

Ideal for recovering the inspiration sometimes taken away by the frantic pace of modern life, the beaches encompassed by the National Park of Huatulco, a protected area created in 1998, are less developed and naturally richer.

While 723 different species of animals are living on the land, the bays are host to the most impressive corals of the Pacific Ocean as well as to an incredible variety of marine species.

This is why no other coastal area in the American Continent can appeal to nature lovers as much as Huatulco. The Green Globe certification, which made it the first sustainable tourist area in the Americas and the third in the world, is there to prove it.