Estado de Oaxaca Travel and Tourism Guide

So, we are in Oaxaca.  Unfortunately, I only brought the travel book that included Chiapas/Yucatan, and so we are flying a bit blind.  We ended up in a hostel without internet and had to take a photo of the map of the city at the bus station to figure out where we were going.  Good thing Beau's camera has an excellent zoom feature.  At the hostel we noticed our dorm-mate was out so we stole his travel book and wrote down a few restaurant suggestions.  The only ac...

Our tour of southern Mexico has now brought us to Oaxaca City.  The first thing we noticed about the city is the wonderful climate, nestled between mountains and located well above sea level is the perfect equation for a sigh of relief from me.  I even put jeans on today!  This city is much larger then the previous ones we have visited and we have already been lost two or three times.  (I blame lonely planet for this problem since our hostel was listed under...

I was sitting around the palapa at my place a couple of weeks ago when my Canadian neighbors asked me how my Spanish was. "Decent," I said. "Do you want to go meet some friends of ours in Pluma Hidalgo?" they asked. "Sure!" Pluma Hidalgo is a small town in the mountains about an hour from Huatulco, which I had never yet been to. The town is famous for its organic, shade-grown coffee, planted amidst the forest on hillsides between 4000 and 5000 feet. It turns out my neighbors had befriended a ...

...back in Mexico...sticking with the state of Oaxaca only this time...sticking with the coast, good-hearted happy locals, simple life, yummy food, and lots of sunshine :))) Heaven on Earth...