A rough taxi ride (7hrs, $130 pesos) up windy roads, missing the sheer cliffs by a ball hair made us so thankful to be at our destination. We intended to stop over in Puerto Escondido for a day and move to Puerto Angel, but we ended up staying five nights.
Puerto Esondido is a littlish beach town on the Pacific coast, South-West of Mexico. It's one of the main towns down here and is famous for it's excellent surfing beach at Zicatela. We got off the taxi and started walking towards the beach and bumped into a Dutch girl (Maraie) and her Mexican friend who taught Sumba (salsa arobics) in Amsterdam. They showed us to a very nice Guest House, bit pricey ($300 pesos), but it's our 6 year anniversary and we thought we should spoil ourselves. Gorgeous room, with a fridge, tv and shower. Maraie and her mate invited us for some Guacomole and some sundowners.
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| This little guy was waiting for us when we got back. |
That night we had delicious prawns, sooo expensive. This place isn't cheap, but the quality was spot on. The next day we spent all day on the beach. It's gorgeous here - white sands, lovely waves, plam trees and the weather is perfect. We rented body boards for $25 each and tried to hit the waves. Quite fun, and not that easy. The waves were at times quite huge, so great to see waves again!
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| F*kkin' Prawns! |
It was getting too hot for comfort so we relaxed at the Split Coconut a bit further back on the beach, had a beer and relaxed. I wish I could bottle up the happiness, lying in the hammock, swinging and nodding off. So nice! We met a lovely Canadian couple, Monique and Jeremy, whom we spent the rest of the Puerto Escondido trip with. Oh - the bar snacks here are so good - salted peanutes with dried chillies and lime squeezed over them. In Guadalajara puff chips hot sauce on them, also nice...interesting.
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| This is the life! |
Puerto Escondido is a lovely beach town. We left the expensive guest house and camped for cheap, cheap close to the beach ($30 each). It wasn't tranquil, but the people were friendly and it had good fascilities. We spent 4 days chilling on the beach, relaxing, chatting with the Canadians and just enjoying not being at work.We saw a scorpion while cooking, which got the Canadians quite excited! Robbie got a terrible sunburn, which prevented us from leaving because he couldn't put his backpack on. Shame! But it was lovely and we ended up spending the last day at Shalom resort in the pool for $20 pesos each :)
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| A little bit of pampering never hurt anyone...(Rob, Monique, Jeremy) |
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