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HOLA AMIGOS!!!
One month in Mexico and still a month to go... there's so much to do and see here it's so easy to understand why many people seem to get stuck here!!
I left the sunny shores of Australia and flew into Mexico City (via Aukland, LA and Houston). I arrived late with my head wedged up my ass from the mission of a trip to get here! After a scary taxi ride with lots of dodgy looking side streets, and a good night sleep I spent the next week wandering round the city soaking up the hustle and bustle which is completely off the scale! I heard so many stories about how dangerous it is there but I loved it! The highlight was finding a square about a 25minute walk outside the city centre that was full of Mariachis and locals drinking and dancing! I didn't exactly fit into the crowd of locals but after a few beers I got used to everyone pointing and staring!!
I left Mexico City and headed to Acapulco to meet Rich. That place isn't great so after one night we went on to Puerto Escondido!! We landed an awesome hostel called Mayflower and met some cool dudes and dudettes there. Christmas on the beach turned out to be one of the best Christmas parties ever!! We had a massive communal bbq, secret santa, lots of Rhum and then bashed the sh#t out of a Pinata!! Puerto Escondido is an amazing place with an awesome surf and party scene!! I could so easily live there for a while!! I met some really cool people from Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Mexico of course... to many names to mention but they know who they are!!
After Rich left I went up to Oaxaca with some others form the Mayflower! That was cool and we saw some more really cool Pyramids but decided to go back to Puerto Escondido for NYE! I was so happy to be backeven though NYE wasn't anything amazing!
After another week or so I took the bus (12 ass numbing hours!) with some Mayflower power friends up to San Cristobal which is a really nice colonial city with cobbled streets and markets everywhere. The atmosphere is so layed back and even the air is different! We went to check out a Church about 10km outside the city in a place called San Juan Chamula and I have never seen anything like it! Local People sit on the floor that is covered in Pine needles and candles where they prey, sacrifice chickens and poor coca cola on the floor... WIERD but an awesome experience!!! The next day we went to see some amazing canyons but the sad state of the river with all the pollution was disappointing to say the least.
Anyway I have decided to head back to Puerto Escondido AGAIN and just bum around the coast for the final 5 weeks of my trip before I have head back to the reality of waking up to an alarm clock 5 days a week!!! BUT I'm not gonna think about that until I have to and who know what will happen between now and then!!
Keep smiling xx
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