Does anybody know the smartest way to get from Airport Mexico City to Zipolite by bus?

Airport Mexico City => Zipolite - Lonely Planet
Hi all,Does anybody know the smartest way to get from Airport Mexico City to Zipolite by bus? I already read on the tree thatś it easy to bus to Oaxaca but i cant  ...
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AlexisBulowski

Jun 11, 2013 11:05 AM
Posts:  2

Airport Mexico City => Zipolite

Hi all,

Does anybody know the smartest way to get from Airport Mexico City to Zipolite by bus? I already read on the tree thatś it easy to bus to Oaxaca but i cant get my finger behind the trip from Oaxaca to Zipolite. I even wishfully wonder if there is a better connection between airport mexico city and zipolite.

Thanks in advance,

A

lake_wobegon

Jun 11, 2013 12:38 PM
Posts:  917

1

Neither from Mexico City nor from Oaxaca (via Mexico City) ... is getting to Zipolite an easy journey, by bus. It's a very long ride. Two routes: 1) which takes you from Mexico City over by Acapulco then down Hwy. 200 through Pinotepa Nacional, Puerto Escondido and then a couple of options as to where to make the cut over to the Pacific Coast beach area at Zipolite; 2) which takes you from Mexico City to Oaxaca and from Oaxaca you have a couple of choices as to routes which will get you over the mountains to Hwy. 200 and the same couple of options as to where to make the cut over to the Pacific Coast beach area at Zipolite (most likely through Puerto Angel). Neither of these possible routes begins at the airport. You will have to make the trip from the airport to either the city's east or south bus terminal (depending upon the route you choose). If you have the money to do so, flying into Huatulco will save considerable time and wear and tear on your body. From Huatulco's airport you can get to Zipolite, relatively easy.

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Queretaro

Jun 11, 2013 1:26 PM
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2

Vivaaerobus have cheap flights that will take you to Puerto Escondido (i.e. as cheap as the bus and about 11 hours quicker). You may have to stay in Mexico City overnight though (depending on your arrival time) although overall it may not cost you any time. If you go all the way by bus the most comfortable and quickest route is that described as option 1 in #1's reply.

mclarjh

Jun 11, 2013 1:29 PM
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More detail: there is an ADO first-class service from Mexico City to Pochutla (782 MXN; 16 hrs). From Pochutla, camionetas travel frequently to the nearby beaches, including Zipolite (20 MXN; 20 mins).

enroutesiglo

Jun 11, 2013 3:26 PM
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Considering that the bus is around 800-850 for an endless, winding, 16 hour ride, and the plane is around 800-1000 pesos for a quick flight 55 min flight to Puerto Escondito or Huatulco, there really is only one sensible choice.

AlexisBulowski

Jun 12, 2013 10:04 AM
Posts:  2

5

thanks for your replies, i guess i just fly to mexico airport, check if there is any reasonable flight, if not take the bus.

adios

yaguri

Jun 12, 2013 4:14 PM
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You'll probably get better airfares if you reserve ahead, rather than walk up to the airline desk at the airport.

Aeromexico and Interjet fly from Mexico City to Huatulco, which is a bit closer to Pochutla (and therefore to Zipolite) than Puerto Escondido.

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Small-batch mezcals, from the heart of Oaxaca Former Ophir resident Judah Kuper, right, with wife Valentina and his in-laws, Aquilino, Epifania and Mateo Garcia. Kuper and longtime friend Dylan Sloan have launched a mezcal importing/exporting business called Mezcal Vago. Aquilino Garcia is one of the mezcal producers. [Courtesy photo by Joanna B. Pinneo] Ophir men launch mezcal importing business By Katie Klingsporn

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It was on one of those adventures that the men found themselves on a street in Oaxaca, Mexico, where they were overcome by a parade of carousing graduates lighting off fireworks and carrying gas cans. The two gringos were pulled into this mobile party, ...

Small-batch mezcals, from the heart of Oaxaca

Former Ophir resident Judah Kuper, right, with wife Valentina and his in-laws, Aquilino, Epifania and Mateo Garcia. Kuper and longtime friend Dylan Sloan have launched a mezcal importing/exporting business called Mezcal Vago. Aquilino Garcia is one of the mezcal producers. [Courtesy photo by Joanna B. Pinneo]

Ophir men launch mezcal importing business

By Katie Klingsporn
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Published: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 6:07 AM CDT

Dylan Sloan and Judah Kuper were 19 years old when they met, a couple of ski bums camping in Bear Creek before their first ski season in Telluride.

They struck up what has become an enduring friendship, and in those early years, would often travel together during the off-seasons. It was on one of those adventures that the men found themselves on a street in Oaxaca, Mexico, where they were overcome by a parade of carousing graduates lighting off fireworks and carrying gas cans. The two gringos were pulled into this mobile party, and soon the students were urging Kuper and Sloan to drink from gas cans, chanting “Toma! Toma! Toma!”

“What hit my lips was so smoky and powerful that, momentarily, I though it might actually be gasoline,” Kuper recalls. “In fact, it was my first taste of mezcal.”

That was the beginning of a love affair with Oaxaca and its people, food and spirits that led Kuper to settle in the southern Mexico state, open a beachside bar there with Sloan, start a family, and most recently, launch Mezcal Vago with his longtime friend. The import/export company aims to bring artisanal small-batch mezcals from the tiny family-run palenques — mezcal production facilities — of Oaxaca’s hills to the restaurants, bars and tables of the U.S.

Mezcal Vago, which has sister companies in Mexico and Ophir, has brought three of its mezcal varieties to Telluride, and is planning to offer more soon. Sloan said businesses from Honga’s to La Marmotte, Siam, The Chop House and Floradora are serving Mezcal Vago, and all three liquor stores carry it.

“Telluride has been an extremely warm environment to get kick-started,” he said.

Along with its Colorado distributor, the business is working with distributors in Texas and New York to sell the mezcal and hopes to expand to further states in the near future.

The goal is to share Oaxaca’s finest mezcals — which Kuper says convey the earthy, arid and smoky qualities inherent to the state — with the world. None of the mezcal producers they work with have produced commercially before, and none of them are producing commercially for anyone else. The result, Sloan and Kuper say, is that they are making available the kind of handcrafted spirits that could previously only be found at farmers markets in Oaxacan pueblos.

“This repesents truth in mezcal,” Kuper said. “It’s not us looking for the smoothest, or the least smoky or the most smoky, it’s us bringing a mezcal that gives you a sense of place, that takes you on a journey to where my father-in-law is from, where my wife grew up.”

Mezcal Vago’s products are a far cry from the bottles of brown mezcals that come with worms floating in them. All of Mezcal Vago’s mezcals are made in the traditional Oaxacan style — joven and clear — and their only ingredients are agave and water. They are produced by roasting agave underground and are not aged in oak.

The result is a sophisticated, complex set of flavors and a potent spirit of around 90-110 proof.

“We’re bringing it back in its truest form,” Sloan said. “It’s incredibly smooth and you can get past the burn and get these great flavors. It’s such an awesome representation of a beautiful heritage.”

Mezcal is akin to wine in that it comes in many different varieties with flavors influenced by the dirt, climate and water specific to each region, Kuper said.

“Mezcal is an incredibly complex and elegant spirit,” Kuper said. “The difference in flavors from one to the next is mind-blowing.”

Each bottle of Mezcal Vago comes with a label detailing who made it, what pueblo it is from, the size of the batch and other specifics. Bottles start at around $50.

The formation of Mezcal Vago is part of a larger story about travel, love and continuing a centuries-old tradition.

Sometime after their first taste of mezcal, Kuper settled on an island west of Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca, where he and Sloan opened a small beachside bar. One day, Kuper developed an ear infection and went to a rural health clinic. Out walked a beautiful little nurse, and Kuper was thunderstruck. He ended up courting, then marrying, the nurse, Valentina Garcia, whose father’s family has been manufacturing fine mezcals for generations. Kuper started selling his father-in-law’s mezcals at his bar, and said patrons were impressed with its quality.

The more he learned about the craft, the more he realized this was top-notch stuff. He ended up traveling all over the state to research different brands and flavors.

“We thought, let’s do a bunch of tours, learn everything we can, see how it really holds up … It held up,” he said. “His mezcal is totally unique, really good and really represents the truth in mezcal.”

As he became part of her family, he realized it was time to share these mezcals — and others like them — with the world.

For those who want to see what Mezcal Vago is all about, Sloan is hosting a tasting on Thursday from 4-7 p.m. at Pacific Street Liquors. To learn more about Mezcal Vago, visit mezcalvago.com.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

I realize how fast time goes by when there’s a new weekly photo challenge. I’m always looking forward to this challenge, because it gives me a good reason to go through my favorite photo album: My trip through Mexico. I did my internship in Oaxaca – Mexico in 2011 and ever since I can’t stop thinking about this amazing country and it’s wonderful people. I love using my Mexico pictures, because they all have a special meaning to me and I remember every single moment.

Picture uno: I sat in the bus to Puerto Escondido playing with my camera when I saw this cute couple. I caught them giving each other a quick kiss. Just too cute!

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Picture dos: Puerto Escondido has one of the best surfing beaches in da world! Of course I wanted to scratch ‘surfing’ off my bucket list so I took a lesson. I’m not a pro. Not even a talent. This is just a lucky picture of me being able to keep standing up for more than 10 seconds. But I loved it!

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Picture tres: Of course I visited Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución) when I was in Mexico City. The Zócalo in Mexico City is 57,600 metres² (240 m × 240 m) and one of the largest city squares in the world. It is beautiful and really nice to walk around. I saw these people having a quick lunch. Only the dad noticed me, right at the moment I took the picture.

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Picture cuatro: I like to show more pictures of my Dutch life. I took this picture in Schiedam for my photography course last year. I love that even though all objects are blurry,  you can still see everything.

Schiedam – The Netherlands

Let me know what you think if you want to (: Thanks and good luck on this challenge!

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BEA AHBECK CASSON/bahbeck@mercedsunstar.com Xochitl Juarez, of Oaxaca, Mexico, in her experimental garden at Riverdance Farms in Livingston Thursday. (5-30-13). Juarez is doing training through the MESA program (Multi-national Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture). When she returns to Mexico she wants to start a demonstation farm and combine farming and education and help educate her community in sustainable farming practices.

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MERCED — In the small town of Mitla Oaxaca in Mexico, a little girl drew inspiration from her grandmother's colorful garden more than 10 years ago.

Though the family wasn't very wealthy, the dinner table was always filled with fresh and nutritious foods.

"When I was young, my grandma always had a garden," said Xochitl Juarez, now 26. "She was really poor, but she always had fresh fruits and vegetables."

After falling in love with agriculture at a young age, Juarez sought to help her community learn new farming techniques to become more sustainable.

"A lot of people that come here are from small towns and they have to grow their own food," she said. "If they have the opportunity to be sustainable, we'll have a better life with more healthy foods and better nutrition."

Juarez left her hometown of about 10,000 people and traveled to the United States for the first time as part of the Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture program.

"Our mission is to advance the next generation of sustainable farming leaders," said Leah Atwood, co-executive director of MESA. "We do that by creating this grass-roots effort of activists and farmers for sustainable food systems."

In Merced County for the past three months, Juarez learned organic and sustainable agriculture techniques while staying at the Riverdance Farms, owned by Cindy Lashbrook and Bill Thompson.

At the beginning of her nine-month experience, Juarez visited a farm in Washington state before heading to the Central Valley and staying at farms in Gustine, Modesto and Merced.

"I'm learning a lot, since Cindy and Bill have an organic farm," she said. "I'm learning about planning and working with permanent crops, like blueberries and cherries. I'm also learning about water conservation."

Juarez built a 10,000- square-foot garden in the shape of a circle because "everything in life is a cycle," she said. The garden has organic potatoes, zucchini, cabbage, corn and squash.

She also learned different gardening techniques such as double digging and a "lasagna" gardening method, which includes six layers. Juarez, who didn't know English when she arrived, has learned marketing skills.

Next, Juarez is traveling to a farm in the Bay Area before heading back home to Mexico in August.

The goal is to take what she's learned back to her hometown, but Lashbrook said she's also learned a great deal from Juarez.

"Watching her diligence, and her methods and energy has made a big difference with me," said Lashbrook, who paid about $1,050 each month to host Juarez at her farm. "We're sharing information, so I've learned a lot from her as well, including methods of creating tomato support systems."

Juarez will leave Merced County this week, but Lashbrook said she plans to keep in touch through the Internet.

When Juarez returns home to Mexico, she plans to build a demonstration garden and hold educational workshops.

"In my country right now, there are a lot of changes," Juarez said. "I want to go to the small towns to work with these people."

Reporter Ramona Giwargis can be reached at (209) 385-2477 or rgiwargis@mercedsunstar.com.y

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