Cell phone rental/purchase, PE

LeonardoJDC

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today, 16:42

We will be in PE for a week in early March. I'm totally confused by all the ways I find on the Web to buy/rent phones, buy sim cards, etc. My wife has an elderly mother at home in Connecticut and needs to be in touch with her daily and needs to be reachable from the U.S. Any suggestions on the cheapest reliable way to go? Muchos gracias!

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I'd probably look at Magic Jack or something similar but see the bottom of the top questions on this page: tripadvisor.ca/ShowForum-g150786-i45-Pacific…

Pochutla Monday Market

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Feb 09, 2013, 12:03 PM

We will be in Huatulco next week for our 3rd visit. So we are a wee bit familiar with the lay of the land.

Can we just hire a taxi to take us to Pochulta Market? For a few hours? If that is possible, any idea of the return cost? Would the cab fellow wait or is there taxi's that would bring us back?

Or is there a bus we can take there and back? Again what would the cost be? Assuming Pochutla is inland is it far from Zipolite? We would kind of like to check that beach out for an our or so.

I emailed Marcos and he is busy those Mondays already. He did get someone to take his place but the price was crazy $380.00 USD!!!!!

Any advice would be appreciated.....

Thanx

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bryna123

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Feb 09, 2013, 12:21 PM

After being to the market, I know we would not have experienced the best of it had we been on our own. So many things to taste and see, small alleys, hundreds of people...just overwhelming. Without a guide it would have been lost on us. You may be comfortable in that scenario or If you speak Spanish you may get on by yourself o.k. Maybe you can try to find an english speaking taxi driver to take you? It is quite something to see.

That quoted price must have been for the coffee tour as well?

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beechwalkers

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Feb 09, 2013, 12:54 PM

Yes....coffee tour was included. But that still seemed like a big chunk of change! No we don't speak much Spanish. Maybe a enough to get us out of a mess! Lol

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Feb 09, 2013, 3:17 PM

You can hire a taxi and the driver would be happy to either wait for you or come back to pick you up- same goes for Zipo or anyplace along the coast you want to visit. It's really up to you, your comfort level and how independent you are.

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Feb 09, 2013, 4:34 PM

We did the tour with Marcos also, it is to bad he is not available. I am sure you will be able to hire a taxi driver to take you both ways. If possible try to find a driver that speaks english and can help you along the way. Worth the trip it is was about a 45 min drive. The market was great to see and the town was really busy. There may be other guides that someone on the forum can suggest or a english speaking taxi driver. Have fun and enjoy the market.

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Zipolite Where in the World Are William and Kelly? A Journal of an Expat's Winter in Southeast Asia

Where in the World Are William and Kelly?

A Journal of an Expat's Winter in Southeast Asia

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Zipolite

We have made it to what certainly feels like the end of the road.  And in a way, it is.  A mile or so stretch of sandy beach wedged between two large rocky crags on each end, sheltering this little resort from the rest of the world.  This is Zipolite.  Fabled travelers hangout and the coolest spot of paradise you have yet to visit.  A guy from New Zealand we met on our second day sums up this place perfectly: "I came here for a week´s vacation... but that was two and a half months ago."

Zipolite is permanently stoned.  A hippie beach paradise populated by the zoned out, dropped out and tuned out.  Shirtless yogis weave necklaces, aging cosmic surfers sip Coronas at 9AM, and all manner of European tourists beach themselves in the sun, making an art of doing absolutely nothing.  There are more people here with dreadlocks than I have ever seen in one place.  Having not been to Jamaica or a Bob Marley concert, that surely isn´t saying much, but trust me on this, there are a lot of dreadlocks here.  And nudity.  Zipolite has earned some fame for its lassiez-faireattitude to clothing.  By which I mean, no one wears any.  My long ago proclamation about nudist beaches still holds true here: the people most in need of clothes are the ones least likely to be wearing any.  I don´t care who you are, no one wants to be surprised by a 70 year old German vagina when relaxing on the beach.

But despite the nudity, Zipolite is gorgeous.  The waves are huge and the ocean frequently violent with a very strong and dangerous current. 

It makes for exciting swimming, though!

Our first night in Zipolite, we decide to rough it a bit and sleep in hammocks.  For only 70 pesos each, we secure the right to hang all night on the second floor of a mostly deserted hostel with only the crashing waves as company. 

This sounds wonderful and romantic and the stuff of dreams.  It isn´t.  Hammocks are generally fine for a nap, but a full night´s sleep is pushing it.  Neither of us can get comfortable and William has bad dreams all night and I don´t think I actually slept until I finally passed out from sheer exhaustion right after sunrise.  Oh well.  Mark that one off the list!

We amble into "town" - which is basically one street.  One block, actually.  A few beachwear shops, an internet cafe, some bars and restaurants, and handful of stores not selling much.  It is really hot in the middle of the day.  Everything is dusty.  No one wears shoes.  According to our hypotheosis that everyone is most likely stoned, most businesses keep hilariously irregular hours.  One or two will open in the mornings (but not every morning), a few more open around dinner time, a some don´t open for several days.  You may enjoy a nice dinner one night at a little sidewalk cafe, only to return the next night to see it completel abandonded as if it never existed.

A photo is worth a thousand words, they say.  So let me save a few here:

We find a new hostel, run by an ebuillent French expat named Sylviana.  She immediately welcomes us into her ramshackle little place, which is not much more than a few bamboo huts and some mosquito nets set around a tropical garden.  There are no floors here, one or two lightbulbs, and the sanitation is unmentionable.  But we love it and move in for three days.  We have our own hut with a palm thatched roof and a bed draped in mosquito netting.  You can hear the waves crash as you fall asleep at night.

It isn´t the Four Seasons, or even The Holiday Inn Express.  But it is charming and there are other dirty backpackers there with us and we have a hard time leaving.  Our typical day in Zipolite is as follows:
1. Wake up at 7:30AM
2. Scratch new bug bites.
3. Avoid the toilet.
4. Walk for coffee and a visit to the market to buy beans, eggs, and tortillas.
5. Cook breakfast on the little gas stove.
7. Go to the beach.
8. Stay at the beach.
9. Contemplate getting up from the beach.
10. Put on more sunscreen.
11. Eat lunch in town.  Usually a tlayuda for 30 peosos.
12. Nap in the shade of our hut.
13.  Maybe write.  Probably nap more.
14. Buy some beer or mezcal or rum to watch sunset on the beach.
15.  Go to bed.
16. Repeat.

We are relaxed, blissful, and happy.  But we have to move on.

Oh!  And I found some real, green broccoli.  We took a walk for a few miles to a neighboring town and there it was.  Sitting there waiting for me.  I paid 8 pesos and took him home and cooked him up.  Scrambeled with some eggs and leftover spaghetti.  (We´ve had to get pretty creative with our survival cooking here...)

Up next... Zipolite to Pochutla to San Cristobal de las Casas.....

Chilling in Zipolite BY JARMO JÄRVI

Chilling in Zipolite

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JARMO JÄRVI

 – FEBRUARY 14, 2011POSTED IN: MEXICO, NORTH AMERICA, PHOTOS, ZIPOLITE

With heavy heart I left Puerto Escondido behind me and we boarded the bus going south with a Californian guy who was heading to the same direction. We dropped off in San Antonio which seemed to be just a few houses in the middle of nowhere. We had planned to catch a collectivo (basically a minivan acting as a local bus) from San Antonio, but ended up sharing a taxi with an Argentian guy who was also heading to a nearby beach.

Zipolite Beach

20 minutes later we arrived at Zipolite, a quiet beach south of Puerto Escondido. Also known as a bit of a hippie hang about and it’s easy to see why that is. Atmosphere is very relaxed, with hammocks at every bar in the beach. During night time you can find fire twirlers and other activity on the beach.

Beach by the Candle light

Cabana with a view to the sea

After a while we found a cabana with a view to the sea, costing 250 pesos (about £12). Very rustic place, but it also had a hammock, so no complaints.

Happy hour at Zipolite beach, 2 drinks for price of 1

Now there isn’t much to do in Zipolite, as the waves are not good for surfing and swimming is not really recommended because of heavy undercurrents. So during day time you take sun and during night time, you eat and drink somewhere on the beach, our choice was often Posada Mexico (the happy hour lasts until late).

Esperanza,

But I do have to warn you that Esperanza (hope in spanish), the resident cat at Posada Mexico, has quite a taste for prawns, and will do anything to get the remains of your prawns from your plate.

Sunset on Zipolite

Roca Blanca (White Rock) off Zipolite Beach, Oaxaca, Mexico

Buceo Huatulco

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CARNIVAL WEEKEND! Kabbalah Restaurante Bar

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FIN DE SEMANA DE CARNAVAL !!! VEN A DIVERTIRTE CON NOSOTROS Y SORPENDETE DE NUESTRAS PROMCIONES !

CARNIVAL WEEKEND! COME AND HAVE FUN WITH US AND OUR PROMCIONES SORPENDETE! (Translated by Bing)

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Life Love & AdventureFOLLOW MY FIRST JOURNEY AROUND THIS LITTLE BLUE PLANET AS I TREAD WEARILY INTO UNKNOWN WATERS, SIPPING ON THE NECTARS OF ANCIENT FRUIT TREES, GRAPPLING LINGUISTICS WITH FOREIGN TONGUES, AND BATHING IN EXOTIC SENSATIONS ...

The sunrise was a calming display of nature's own clock, neither meandering behind or racing ahead.  Perfecto!  I thinks my body clock is settling in to the new circadian rhythms of this place, and the simple breakfast I had kicked me off to a good start.  I decide to walk over to Mazunte which is the small neighbour to San Agustinillo.  If it wasn't for some road works being carried out, Mazunte oozes the sleepy hippyville of yesteryear.  Like SA no one seems to be in a hurry to do anything (except the poor blokes doing the hard slog on the roads!), and the fragrant menagerie of yoga retreats, massage and reiki places, organic food shops, and dreadlocked dudes and dudettes, was occasionally broken by the scent of marijuana wafting in the breeze!  But I couldn't find any market place where I was looking for some singlets and souvenirs so I headed back. 

The beach beckoned once again so off came the sweat in a cooling swim.  Living your whole life in board shorts and singlet can't last forever, can it? Lets test that theory, hehe.

 

A lazy afternoon kicked off with a good lunch of pescado empapalado and a corona, followed by more hammock time.  While its still quite warm, the clouds have come in to take the bite out of the sun which isn't a bad thing.  I think all this free time weighing on my shoulders is slowly forcing me to forget the usual daily routines and take each moment as it comes, That's ok, but even though I planned to have no plan, I'm a creature of habit and plans are good, even if you don't have one!  Ok so it might take me a couple more days to learn how to handle this freedom - poor me, hehe.

 

With that in mind, I strolled along the main road through town.  There is only one so that didn't take me long. It's strewn with these small restaurant/bars and accommodation options all a stone's throw from the beach.  I spied one place for sale and that got me thinking, hmmm.  Food for thought at any rate ;)

 

Now the wind has dropped off, the waves are purring to the beat of their own rhythm, and I've filled up on wood-fired pizza and beer.  So as the day started, so it ends, and its time for the hammock once again.

TAGS: BEACHES, MAZUNTE, MEXICO, OAXACA, SAN AGUSTINILLO

San Agustinillo

A positive way . . .

My Spanish Notes Gira a la derecha, mas adelante

My Spanish Notes

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Gira a la derecha, mas adelante Posted: 05 Feb 2013 06:24 PM PST Just about everyone has a GPS these days, and if you're serious about learning Spanish, you should be getting your directions in Spanish. If you haven't changed the language on your GPS yet, today you're going to learn everything you need to know to get where you're going.  Break out your driving gloves boys and girls, it's time to go for a ride. Here's a screen shot from the GPS on my phone, let's take a closer look at it.  Let's start with the word bifurcación, which you'll find at the top of the picture where the directions start. A  bifurcación  is a fork in the road. If you look at the picture closely you can even see the little arrows showing the fork in the highway. Tome la izquierda cuando llegue a una bifurcación del camino Go left when you get to the fork in the road Next we get to: Mantente a la derecha y sigue las indicaciones Keep to the right and follow the signs We need to take a closer look at the first part of this, Mantente a la derecha. To be specific, the verb mantenerse. Mantenerse seems to be the verb of choice for my GPS.  Your GPS may prefer permanecer. Permanece a la derecha Keep to the right Hold on, we're not done skinning this cat yet.  You have one more option: Quédate a la derecha Stay to the right Your GPS might not use quedar, but it's certainly something you'll probably hear on the street and may even want to use yourself.  Here's another example for good measure. Desde Tulum, quedar en el carril de la derecha From Tulum, stay in the right lane OK, let's move on. Gira ligeramente a la izquierda hacia 85 North Take a slight left towards 85 North Hacia is the word you want when you need to talk about where your heading. Voy hacia el sur I'm going south En lugar de irme a casa, voy hacia el restaurante Instead of going home, I'm heading towards the restaurant Also notice that the word North wasn't translated.  Your GPS might translate it so you may want to refresh your memory if those directions aren't already burned into your brain. OK, we're still not there yet, so let's keep going. Toma la salida 86 hacia 13 North, en dirección Buford Highway Take exit 86 towards 13 North, towards Buford Highway This is really pretty straight forward.  The only thing I want to touch on is en dirección.  En dirección is another way to say towards.   Here are some examples: Voy en dirección a mi casa I'm heading towards my house Caminar hacia el norte en dirección a la Calle 55 Walk heading north towards 55th Street Gire a la derecha en dirección al hotel Hilton Turn right towards the Hilton hotel Notice all of my examples used  en dirección a, while my GPS didn't use the "a".  I suspect that's a translation error on their part.  And finally we have: Incorpórate a 13 North Get on 13 North Incorporarse is used to for taking/getting on the highway. Desde Barcelona, incorpórate a la autopista y toma la salida 12 From Barcelona, get on the freeway and take exit 12 You may also hear carretera used for highway, and notice the use of tomar for taking the freeway. Toma la carretera 880 rumbo al Norte Take highway 880 going north You may have noticed the word rumbo.  It's just another way to say which way you're headed. Voy rumbo a casa de una amiga I'm headed towards a friends house Next we have the following: Continuá durante 3,6 mi Continue for another 3.6 miles You may have noticed the "3,6".  In Spanish the comma is used instead of the decimal point, so don't let it confuse you. And the part we've all been waiting for: El destino está a la izquierda Your destination is on the left We need to talk to about one more thing that didn't show up on my GPS this time. Sigue derecho Keep straight You may also hear the word recto for straight.  And remember, derecha is right while derecho is straight.  The first time I got directions while driving I nearly forgot this distinction, luckily my passenger got me straightened out in time. Sigue recto Keep straight Lastly, let's look at the title of this entry. Gira a la derecha mas adelante Turn right further ahead FYI, you can get your directions online in Spanish as well.  I use Google Maps with my language set to Spanish.  You'll see the same vocabulary used. And that about wraps things up.   If I missed something, leave me a comment. Espero que les sirva, ¡cuídense!

Oaxaca 13

Next stop, Huatulco! Where are Kevin and Ruth now? Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico. Where are Kevin and Ruth going next? Huatulco, Oaxaca. Arriving February 6th! Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Next stop, Huatulco!

We're heading further south (actually more east than south!) this morning along Mexico's Pacific coast. Not going far, only about 120 kms (75 miles) to the resort town of Huatulco. No idea where we're staying, but there is a campground there and of course we have the tent if we need it.

We'll only be there for a night or two at the most anyhow.

Today's plan...only 120 kms (75 miles).

Just a short drive. As you can see, we're actually heading east today!

Yesterday was a bit of a relax day. We did head into town and we were going to go to the big Super Che grocery store but there was some kind of protest going on and they had the entrance blocked and they weren't letting people into the store. They had some signs taped to the wall, it looked like it was something to do with privatization of schools or something. No idea what this would have to do with a grocery store! Anyhow, we gave up on that and headed to the bank. Wanted to try and get some Guatemala currency. But the banks had been closed on Monday for some holiday and so there was a big lineup. Okay, so we gave up on that too!

Then, we had heard that David and Marina were in town. This is a couple that we had met at Playa Zipolite a few years ago. They're actually from the town of Perth, Ontario which is only an hours drive or so from our home city of Ottawa. Anyhow, they've got a little apartment rented here so we went over and visited with them for a while.

David, Marina, Ruth, and Kevin

In the evening, we had invited Mary and Alfredo over for dinner. They left the kids with her Mom, so they got a well deserved evening away. After dinner, we taught them how to play Yahtzee.

And so, we're outta here. We always enjoy Puerto Escondido, but it's time to move on. See you in Huatulco!

Oh, one last sunset photo from our balcony at the Sunset Point Resort Hotel!

Happy Birthday to Kevin's sister Alison!