Oaxaca Vacations, Oaxaca Vacation Reviews, 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...

From the plane I see mountains and farming fields. I have been traveling on a red eye. From the window I see people standing off to the side of the runway to greet their family members. I don' t see Luis though. But, when I walk inside the terminal I see him pretty quickly on the other side of security. I am so happy to see him that I ignore any directionals that there might have been to tell me I need to get my checked baggage and go through customs. He leaves his backpack unattended and I g...

Today Jerry and I made our way south of the Zocolo to the market to check out the arts and crafts and have lunch in the covered food market.  All the people in the food market were trying to wave us towards their tables and we had to run the gauntlet to get to a stall that wasn't so vocal.  We sat down and the lady asked us what we wanted but we had no idea.  She was rambling in Spanish naming off all the things to eat but we were bewildered and didn't know what everythin...

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...