We head out at 11 pm on a night bus and arrive in Puerto Escondido tomorrow morning at 7 am. We purchased first class tickets for 270 pesos each ($23).
There are six of us traveling together now heading out of Hostal Pochon and heading south. Two sisters, Anya and Sasha are from England, but are both originally from Russia. When communicating together they speak a mix of english and russian back and forth. There are a traveling pair of Germans, Toby and Claudia, who both just finished their masters degrees and are taking a Mexican respite before continuing with their educations. Then of course, there is Mari and I.
As we are trying to stick to a budget, we are hanging around the hostal today killing time and chatting waiting for a night bus. We went to the markets and bought fruits and veggies to make lunch and dinner. Luckily, our hostal has a communal kitchen area where we can cook. The food here is very cheap, we spent a total of 69 pesos ($5.90) for a light lunch and magnificent dinner. Plus I bought beer basically on a bottle exchange.
Here, when you purchase a liter of beer (as in Uruguay and Argentina as well), you purchase the bottle of beer for 22 pesos, but then you pay an additional 12 pesos for the "bottle rental" that is returned to you once you bring the bottle back to the store. As this is a hostal, and not many people know of this elusive 12 peso bottle exchange, I picked up 5 left over bottles and returned them for 2 new, full bottles of beer paying some rediculous rate of around 7 pesos or so. I lucked out with such a brilliant plan.
One bottle down and one to go. Its 4:15 now. Going to start cooking dinner in an hour or so and tap into that second bottle. Cheers!
T
You are so frugal and an inspirational environmentalist! Good luck on finding more bottles!
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