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Puerto Escondido

JUN102013

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!

Puerto Escondido

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!

Puerto Escondido

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.

Mexico City

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!

Exchange student learns sustainable gardening Published: June 10, 2013

Exchange student learns sustainable


 gardening

Published: June 10, 2013

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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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By RAMONA GIWARGIS — rgiwargis@mercedsunstar.com

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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Travelling from San Cristobal to Mazunte

ble133

Jun 8, 2013 9:13 AM
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Travelling from San Cristobal to Mazunte

Hello, currently in San Cristobal de la Casa and was wondering whether anybody is driving to Mazunte, I could pitch in for the petrol money?

Also, does anyone know of anyone who needs any graphic, or architectural work doing?

Thanks.

mclarjh

Jun 8, 2013 11:37 AM
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There was a hurricane that hit the Oaxacan coast last week, there must be some homes and businesses that were damaged and need rebuilding.

enroutesiglo

Jun 8, 2013 12:27 PM
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Luckily, the hurricane mostly spared the Maz/Zip area this time... more damage was closer to the Chiapas border around Salina Cruz and the north Chiapas coast.

If by "architectural work" you mean building houses, I'm sure someone needs it, but most of those jobs are already filled with low-wage workers sweating out 12-hour days. OTOH you might be able to find a unique arrangement with a nice person in Mazunte (probably more likely than anywhere else).

I'd bet that there's close to zero chance of finding a ride directly there short of a miracle. If cash is super strapped, you could take 2nd class busses, though the best way is just a hassle-free overnighter via ADO.

ble133

Jun 8, 2013 2:40 PM
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Thanks for the info, didn´t know anything about the hurricane! Do you still think its worth heading there?

Yes it seems noone knows where the 2nd class buses are in san cristobal, or they say the only way now is with OCC.

enroutesiglo

Jun 8, 2013 5:51 PM
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That particular area was mostly unaffected, thank goodness, the problems were more south of Huatulco. They say it's going to be a rough hurricane season, but we'll see...

The 2nd class bus you'd take would be from Tuxtla, BTW. I don't think it would save more than 50-100 pesos but I could be wrong, and you'd have to get to Tuxtla first by collectivo. Overnight OCC really is worth the extra $ IMO. One thing you could do would be to ask the Chamulan vendors/shoeshiners, many of them make frequent trips back and forth to Oaxaca on 2nd class lines.

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Dreaming in Puerto Escondido (México)

tuesdaYYYYYY MIX N MADMADNESS

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Puerto Escondido (is fun to say)

I get antsy if I don't see the sea for more than a week or two so we decided to head south to Puerto Escondido on the Pacific coast. From Oaxaca we had two options: an 11 hour bus ride overnight that went around a large mountain range OR what numerous posts on TripAdvisor told us was a hectic, nausea inducing but spectacular 6 hour ride straight up and over said range in a mini-van.

After some deliberation we opted for the latter. This turned out to be an opt that I would regret. Most of the people describing the trip on the internet had complained about getting car sick but I don't really suffer from this affliction so thought it'd be fine. The real difficulty came from having to spend the entire journey clinging to my chair and trying to stop myself from flying out of the seat. The novelty of this wore off after the first 30 minutes and then it was just annoying. Even the promise of some spectacular views during the descent on the other side turned out to be over-hyped and was nothing particularly special. I'm starting to think some false or misleading information might have accidentally made it onto the internet.

It was kind fun to watch young children clambering all over each other trying to sell you coke and nuts whenever the van stopped for gas (or if the driver just randomly decided to pick up one of his mates on the side of the road). Presumably they all go to school during the week and are only doing this on the weekends to earn some extra pocket money.

I realize I'm starting to sound a bit like a whiny toruist but whatever, it sucked and as a result I arrived in Puerto Escondido incredibly sweaty and exhausted. I say "I" because apparently Audrey really enjoyed the ride and thought it was "authentic" and "fascinating". Bloody French - they're always so positive and never complain about anything!

We'd opted to stay in a hostel a little bit out from the main town since it was cheaper and the photos on hostelworld seemed really nice. It also said it was "a 5 minute cab ride" from the main town. We caught a cab and 20 minutes later arrived at our hostel. To be fair it was quite a nice place and we had our own little cabin. The surrounding neighbourhood was completely empty, save for a few stray dogs and one or two bars which were closed (this was a Saturday night after all). We asked the (American) woman working at our hostel if there was anywhere around that we could get some food and she told us no. So we caught a cab back to town (mea culpa: Audrey may or may not have suggested that we should eat as soon as we got off the bus and I may or may not have grumpily said I just wanted to get to the hostel first to take a shower and that I was sure there'd be somewhere to eat nearby). God... I am a whiny tourist. Poor Audrey.

Fortunately Puerto Escondido turned out to be really nice. Ridiculously hot, but really nice. It's really different than all the other places we'd been to in Mexico thus far. There are no colonial buildings because prior to the 1930s there wasn't really a town here. It's basically a surfing / tourist town and is home to the "Mexican Pipeline" which is supposed to be one of the top surf spots in the world (they've held the X games and various other big competitions here). While we were there the surf didn't seem all that big but apparently it gets much, much bigger (like 16m waves bigger) in November when they hold the annual surf comps. There are also plenty of more secluded spots for swimmers like us to enjoy the (ridiculously warm) water. Oh and there are some really pretty sunsets too.

I sensibly fell asleep under an umbrella but apparently umbrellas in Mexico don't work as I still managed to get sun burnt through the damn thing! You may now all feel sorry for me.

Posted 1 week ago by Gareth

Location: Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico