Hello and welcome to the coldest and grayest city around! It's raining and I'm sick. I suffer from the lovely yet fairly rare combination of diarrhea and altitude sickness. Quite delightful. Been sleeping with my jacket on and triple blankets three nights in a row now. So yeah, it's all good. Anyway, moving on to Antigua tomorrow which is situated a little bit lower and hopefully it'll be warmer there.
These last two weeks have been awesome though. Been traveling with RayRay and Benji boy, from Mexico City to Oaxaca, down to the pacific coast and back up to the highlands of San Cristobal de las Casas. And it's been nothing short of spectacular. My favorite place was definitely Mazunte on the coast. It's a wonderful and incredibly chill beach town just south of the more touristy and exploited Puerto Escondido. We stayed in a cool little cabin up on a hill overlooking the sea. Watching the sunrise from a hammock up there was pretty intense. Going out after dark you had to bring a flashlight. For example if you wanted to go down to the center which was basically just one short strip with a few restaurants and bars. We went out one night and had some delicious pizzas and enjoyed live music, but mostly we would just hang out in our cabin playing cards and smoking weed. The owner had two dogs that followed us everywhere we went. We were like a big family, me, Ray, Ben, the dogs Dawn and Tinsley and the cat Kalle (not their real names). Fabulous times! When we left, Dawn and Tinsley followed us down to the center, sat by our table while we had lunch and tried to get in to our taxi when we were about to leave. Looking out through the back window we saw them running after the car as we took off. I nearly cried. True story.
Zipolite was also a very cool town. We stayed at a hostel right on the beach and spent most of the time in the hammocks and also had some great food. I liked San Cristobal as well. A pretty town up in the mountains with a beautful market. I did my first shopping there on this trip. Can you imagine that? I hadn't bought anything in more than a month, not even a pair of earrings.
I'm gonna stop boring you with text now and let you look at the pictures. (As if you didn't look at them before reading).
Market in Oaxaca, Mexico
Someones been in the sun too long. Puerto Escondido.
Sunset in Mazunte
Tinsley!
Sunrise from a hammock
Our lovely home
Are you pissed or mental?
Ben likes playing soggy biscuit with himself
Breakfast in our cabin
Me & Kalle
Sunset in Zipolite
That's a fish!
Just... Checkin that.
Just another normal day in Zipolite
Defenaaately my size
San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico
Aww, last night with the Brent Crew
To me they're not mutually exclusive.
Oh, by the way, my nicknames are now Milo, Emilio, Esteves or simply just This little lady (Office quote)
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