From my last update Mari and I have switched accomodations. When we initially arrived we stayed in a hotel named Posada Don Mario. This place was three floors with an open inner courtyard containing tables and chairs on the pirmary floor for breakfast and general lounging. We stayed two nights on the top floor in a private room with full bath. It was a nice way to start the trip, and we had to upscale it for a few nights upon our initial arrival because the festival dias de los muertos (Day of the Dead) was still in celebration. We passed two fine days and nights at the Posada Don Mario, but we quickly realized to maintain our budget we needed to downgrade our accomodations a notch or two.
Thus, we are now staying at a place called Hostal Pochon. Its relatively close to Posada Don Mario and has more of a young vibrant feel to it. There are several long term travelers staying here, and we have made several friends during our two day stay. Tonight will be our second nights stay in this hostal. While chatting with the other travelers stationing here, we´ve made sure to comb everyones travel histories for tips, ideas, and routes. While on the other hand, several people are planning roughly the same routes and times of travel as us. Its nice to meet such grand people in a traveling environment. We have banded together to explore distant locales, cultures, cuisines, and languages.
Today, seven of us took a trip just outside Oaxaca to a site called Monte Alban. (Click the link to learn more about it). For 40 pesos each (around $3.40), we bought roundtrip bus tickets to and from the site from downtown Oaxaca. The bus chugged out of downtown, crossed a local river and headed towards a nearby mountain where we began to ascend through quaint hilltop communities. 20 to 30 minutes later we were parked, offloading, and heading to the site. We paid 51 pesos each ($4.40) to enter and were quickly blown away by the spectacular mountain top ruins. The weather was absolutely gorgeous and made all the photos that much more appealing by lending a brilliant blue backdrop to all the degrading stone structures. The site is quite big, containing a massive plaza stretching between the north and south structures. Several structures dabble on the outskirts fo the plaza running along the east and west as well.
I urge you to read a little about Monte Alban from the link supplied above, and google some pictures. It was absolutely breathtaking. I really wish I had the ability to add a few to this thread, but as of now we are still unable to offload photos off the camera.
One major breakthrough today: We purchased a new ipod charger!! That will come in quite useful in the near future.
Now we need to decide exactly what we are going to be doing in the next couple days.
Hasta Tarde!
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