can’t be asked
sorry, i want to tell a great story or something but honestly there’s a parade outside and i can’t be asked to organize my thoughts. if you want to send me a text, my mexican number is 777-224-1119. i don’t remember mexico’s country code but i think it’s on the internet somewhere.
oh god, they’re all doing samba, ok here’s the deal, i posted something on the bootsnall forums that says where i am, so i’m reposting it here because it’s all written.
well, i’m an expert now. puerto escondido is full of surfers and others who just generally love the beach, and they’re all sure that there’s simply nothing up the coast until you hit san blas. that’s the consensus among backpackers here as far as i can tell. here’s what i did.
two nights by myself in acapulco. very boring by yourself. very resort-ey. k3 is the hostel there, right in the mix with all the highrise hotels. i can’t say whether that’s a nice place or not.
one night in pie de la cuesta, just around the western headland from acapulco’s bay. it’s chill there, relaxed small town twenty minutes from acapulco. there are quieter, cheaper, less touristed places, but they’re not twenty minutes from acapulco. the current is strong right now. you can swim but it’s not that great because you keep getting washed down the beach. there are two ships wrecked there since a month ago. one of them’s a ferry. you can climb all up in it. it’s smelly and old and dangerous. i’m putting it on my list of cool places you weren’t supposed to be in just ahead of abandoned hospital.
next place i stopped down the costa chica was marquelia, two hours south towards puerto escondido. that’s where you get off the bus. the better known beach there is playa ventura. i didn’t go there but a backpacker in cuernavaca recommended it, saying it was nice but maybe a little too boring on the weekends. he was also by himself.
i didn’t make it to ventura because playa volcana was much easier to get to from marquelia, where the bus station is. if you really want to go to ventura, i don’t think it’s more than a combi or two from marquelia, and anybody in town can tell you how to get there. but volcana is five minutes down the road. it’s a tiny fishing community. in two nights there (i stayed two nights because the combi driver offered to take me to a rodeo the second day. it didn’t happen and i feel a bit cheated out of what could have been an extra day here in escondido) i saw no tourists except for a group of forty retired people from mexican city.
food is a bit expensive. 60 or 70 pesos for fish a la diabla, or however you want it cooked, but it’s going to be fish. on the other hand, the owners of a restaurant let me hang my hammock for two nights in their ramada free of charge. and when they noticed that i didn’t buy dinner from anyone my second night, they offered to share their family’s meal with them that night. i declined and was asked to explain why my government makes it so difficult for mexicans to come and work. interesting place, like i say i was a little bored, but if you want something out of the way, go for it.
bored as i was, i went straight to escondido, but there’s another decent sized town somewhere in between. patineta nacional or something. *that’s definitely not the name, but it does start with a P and end in Nacional and it’s along the highway in southwestern oaxaca*
right by puerto escondido there’s also a couple quiet places. zipolite and mazunte. my guide book specifically says that mazunte is currently some kind of backpacker hot spot. here i haven’t heard anything about it, but everyone seems to love zipolite. if you want a place that’s convenient but small enough that you can have a fire and some beers on the beach, that’s where to do it.
or go to puerto escondido! i love it here.
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