Tag: Oaxaca

  • Thursday 20 December 2012 Highlights: The magnificent Monte Alban Ruins We had a planned catch up with Sid for 10 am for those heading up to the Monte Alban Ruins. Due to a miscommunication the catchup didn’t occur instead Cynthia, Xinglu, Tina and myself headed off to find the tourist bus stop. We found Sam…

  • Wednesday 19 December 2012 Highlights: Largest Tree in the World, Zapotec ruins, Petrified Waterfalls, Mezcal alcohol, Traditional clothes weaving. An enormous day of activities and and embarrassing moment for myself. Today I signed up for a multiple event tour out of Oaxaca. This started with a visit to Tule which has the largest (wildest) tree…

  • Tuesday 18 December 2012 Highlights: Magnificent mountains, Oaxaca Cathedral, nightclub drinking Today we had a 6 hour bus ride to Oaxaca a town of around 270,000 people. We are moving to smaller and smaller cities as we progress. The bus ride actually had one significant positive the scenery of the magnificent and dominating mountains.