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Hurricane party and Mazunte. | Travel Blog Howdy people, Just back from Mazunte's turtle reserve so I figured a blog is in order before I nap and decide whether or not I'll go out tonig. www.travelblog.org/North-America/.../blog-792717.html
Hurricane party and Mazunte.
North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
Published: June 22nd 2013June 22nd 2013
Just back from Mazunte's turtle reserve so I figured a blog is in order before I nap and decide whether or not I'll go out tonight.
The Hurricane party was a remembrance of Carlotta from last year. Held at Brad's split coconut bar. Bar name is fitting since the hurricane nearly killed brad haha! There was a live band covering Led Zeppelin tunes....but they sucked! So I didnt hang out long and wound up wandering towards home slowly where I ran into a local teacher I'd seen earlier at Brad's. She invited me to sit down and listen to the Latin band playing so I did for a bit until at midnight we shuffled to another spot where I strangely found my pasty white a** dancing....haha.
Ok so this morning I woke at 445am to ready myself for the lunchbox trip to Mazunte. As I entered the main palapa, the usual suspects were still partying from the night before! I am glad I'm too old to pull off crap like that anymore. An uneventful trip down although I arrived wayyyyyy too early so I found a little restaurant got to know the owner and she and
her husband fed me eggs and ham black beans and rice tortillas and juice and 3 beers for 30......yes 30 pesos!!!!! Had a fun chat session till the reserve opened then I shuffled on over to buy a ticket in. All told it was small and not very impressive but still worth the 27 peso entrance fee. (pictures to follow). So as it's 5 pm here and I've been up 12 hours and I'll be worthless should I decide to go out if I don't get rest, I'll post and annotate pictures and go shower and visit my hammock.
Hasta pronto a todos
Mountain Biking Near Mazunte, Oaxaca » Tour in Tune Some dirt road mountain biking I found above Pochutla and Tonameca just north of Mazunte on the Oaxacan Coast. www.tourintune.com/mountain-biking-near-mazunte-oaxaca/
Mountain Biking Near Mazunte, Oaxaca » Tour in Tune
Some dirt road mountain biking I found above Pochutla and Tonameca just north of Mazunte on the Oaxacan Coast.
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Some dirt road mountain biking I found above Pochutla and Tonameca just north of Mazunte on the Oaxacan Coast.
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Mountain Biking Near Mazunte, Oaxaca
Whilst staying in Mazunte, I started getting cravings for some off-road exploring. Jenny’s Spanish maestro and local rafting guide, Daniel, kindly gave me some tips for some dirt road networks near Pochutla and Tonameca. I mapped out a few tracks for the Garmin and set off to explore!
This shows the routes that I actually rode as marked on Strava and overlayed together.
I created the map above to load some tracks onto my Garmin GPS. You can download the KML file and then convert it to GPX using GPSVisualizer.com.
I was lucky to have stumbled on some fantastic riding on the quiet dirt roads. There is plenty of climbing with some great descents. You can cycle on the paved roads to reach Tonameca where it then turns to dirt for miles and miles. If you want to skip the paved roads, you can throw your bike in the back of a ‘collectivo’ truck for about $10-20 pesos (£0.55-£1.10).
You can ride on the road from Mazunte or take a collectivo truck to get a headstart up the dirt roads above Tonameca.
The collectivo trucks were still crossing this river when I took this photo. The water level has since risen a few feet after massive downpours. Now the collectivos stop at either end of the river banks. Who knows when they will finish the bridge!
The river crossing for the collectivo trucks near San Francisco.
It’s also pretty refreshing in the midday sun!
Only the most clever of goats shall pass!
Long, windy dirt roads with almost no cars; Just the way I like it!
The flooding after the big rain takes its toll. Many of the roads become washed out and impassable for cars, whilst making for more technical mountain biking!
I encountered far more animals than people and trucks. Aside from the goats, you might also be able to see the massive 3 metre snack in the bottom right corner. It was weaving up the side of the road with some sort of rodent in its mouth.
I love water crossings and the rustic climbs on the other side!
More dirt roads with no people, climbing up, over and back down to Mazunte.
Happy to be riding on dirt without all the touring weight for a change!
Another water crossing, before another big climb.
A cloudy, smokey sunset looking SW about 15km northwest of Mazunte.
The same clouds a few hills later.
