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    • TravelerDive&Bike au Mexique
      Day 84

      🚲 - 33: Puerto Angel/Huatulco

      January 9, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

      DISTANCE: 55,4 km
      GAIN D'ALTITUDE: 651 m
      DURÉE: 4h 33min

      L'objectif était de prendre le car à Pochutla à 10km. J'ai failli craquer à 5 km (côte à 8% et 30°)
      Puis finalement au bout des 10km, un peu plus frais de jolis paysages, pas envie d'attendre un potentiel car alors go en vélo.
      Des montées, des descentes, des virages tout le temps. au moins ce n'était pas monotone et joli paysage.
      Finir 1 heure de nuit (c'est bien mieux pour la chaleur 😅) avec une super bande d'arrêt d'urgence.
      Arrivée dans un hôtel pas top, l'auberge à Puerto était tellement le paradis!
      (Accompagnée d'un mega rhume... pas pratique le vélo pour se moucher)      Read more

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    • TravelerHuatulco mexico
      Day 5

      trip into la crucecita, plants ??

      April 4, 2019 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

      all these plants in front of the church, pulmaria or is that the desert rose (adenium obesum), purple one? ? member of bignongiacea family?? pink one?? very distinctive flower, Red one a hibiscus of some sort. Mango fruit which was almost mature. growing in the courtyard of the church. (Mangifera indica) and last one?? there was a yucca too in bloom.Read more

    • TravelerHuatulco mexico
      Day 5

      Church in la Crucecita

      April 4, 2019 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

      The Church in la Crucecita. built in the 1980's it has the largest mural of "our lady of Guadalupe'. It was very pretty, and the colours in the church were very bright.

      She is the patroness of Mexico. in 1531 Juan Diego saw a brown skinned version of the Virgin Mary enclosed in a dazzling aura of light. She told him to build a shrine in her memory on that spot where the Aztecs had long worshipped their Earth Mother Tonantzin. She also told him to go the cathedral and tell the archbishop her instructions. The archbishop did not believe him. So she realized a miracle was necessary. She instructed Juan Diego to pick some roses at the spot she had appeared to him, in itself a miracle as roses did not occur there, he wrapped them in his rude clock and when he took them to the archbishop and opend his clock there was an image of the Virgin Mary herself imprinted on the cape. Since then the brown virgin, La Virgen Morena or Nuestra Señora La Virgen de Guadalupe - has blended native and catholic elements into something uniquely Mexican. Pope John Paul elevated Juan Diego to sainthood in 2002.. (source Moon travel book Oaxaca)Read more

    • TravelerHuatulco mexico
      Day 1

      Camino Real Zaashila Huatulco

      March 31, 2019 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

      Camino real Zaashila Huatulco- on Bahia Tangolunda, Rincon Sabroso Beach, built in 1993, by a renown Mexican architect Javier Sordo Madaleno,. Beautiful, rounded, Moorish white buildings, most less than 3 stories high nestled in to the side of the hill. The swimming pool shape was amazing. The lower level suites had their own square, blue tiled pools right off of their decks. I loved all the blue tiles. This was the view from our room. We were on the third floor. All rooms face the ocean. There were only 2 buildings open as demand didn't warrant opening up another building up and behind.

      Huatulco was a purpose built area, like Cancun on the Caribbean this one was on the Pacific. The small fishing villages were cleared out in the 1980's. 9 bays, isolated and quiet. It is suppose to be an environmentally conscious international destination, but growth was slower than expected. There was an earthquake in sept 2017. The town La Crucecita was built to house the workers from the resorts.

      In colonial times Huatulco was a refuge for Pirates.      Read more

    • TravelerHuatulco mexico
      Day 2

      out door eating area

      April 1, 2019 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

      outdoor eating area for lunch, -Palapa-. Catch of the day was excellent. Mahimahi or snapper. Lots of Ceviche, (say-VEE-chay) chopped raw fresh fish soaked in lime juice and chile sauce, cilantro, onion, garlic and tomato but not too picante-hot......the fish tacos were also excellent and lots and lots of shrimp choices. Food was more traditional Mexican but not hot spicy (picante) at all...I loved it!

      the red snapper catch of the day was served 'Pescado frito' (pays KAH do FREE toh) which means it was pan fried whole, sliced daigonally and almost crispy in parts. it was delicious.

      Each meal arrived with fresh tacos and red salsa for dipping.....Night time was green salsa a bit more picante!      Read more

    • TravelerHuatulco mexico
      Day 2

      swimming beach

      April 1, 2019 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      The beach was rather steep so the waves were quite high. You had to be careful when getting in and out of the water. Warrior two was a good pose to prevent you from getting bowled over from the waves. There was one poor fellow who did something to his knee and was on crutches.

      There was a roped off area you can see where swimming was recommended. IN between the palm trees. Coconut palms. Nice and calm in the mornings then in the afternoon the wind tended to kick up.

      I tried snorkelling and the beach side to the left looked promising as it was shallow, but the wave action had churned things up pretty good. visibility not the greatest. I did see a few puffer fish and school of yellow convict? fish. they had the black stripes on yellow bodies. A few other little guys, but because it was a bit choppy hard to get close enough with out getting banged up against the rocks. While snorkelling over to the other side of the bay there was a school of silver fish swimming by me quickly, maybe 12 inch long....not sure what was chasing them.

      another day while just out swimming and floating in the waves a school of fish started jumping all around me....again not sure what was chasing them. There were these small larval type things that as you were treading water would sort of bump up against you. they were only as big as your thumb but it felt weird. We met a woman from Calgary, Nancy, not far from where Kendra lives. She sat next to us on the plane down and was staying at the same resort....luckily she was a fish too and loved the beach so we would be in and out throughout the day.

      You could only see the sunset from out in the water as this resort faces due south. We did see the southern Cross at night and the constellation Corvis. We saw Orion too, and he was in a different position....but sun went down behind the hills. So if you timed it right and you were out in the water floating you would see it set from the water instead of behind the breakfast buildings. Sun was setting around 630-7 pm. They were not yet on daylight savings time when we were there. That happened on the day we left. They are 2 hours ahead of us.      Read more

    • TravelerHuatulco mexico
      Day 3

      Breakfast building

      April 2, 2019 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

      the breakfast building as the sun rises.

      The hotel staff was up at 530 starting on breakfast prep. There was this beautiful outdoor covered plaza where you would have breakfast, looking out to the sea. There was a station where the cook would make up your omelet and add whatever you requested onto it, Jambon (ham), Tocino (bacon), Cebella (onion), Jitomate (Tomato), Espinaca (spinach), Chapulines (grasshopper)-tastes like ground beef with a bit of spice, Queso Oaxaca (cheese form Oaxaca).. Delicious. then they had a buffet with other hot items you could choose from, some more Mexican like nachos with red sauce and ones with green sauce, Tamales, some vegetables some chicken and then more tradition american fare, hotcakes, bacon and eggs.

      Great fruit selection, watermelon, Papaya, Grapefruit, Melon, Cantaloupe, Peaches, the freshest and juiciest pineapple. Lovely yogurts and baked items. I had one of the puff pastry type ones with sugar on it every morning -Panes dulces- (pastries).......gained 3 lbs after eating like this for a week !

      they had traditional Mexican coffee which was sweet, maybe with a hint of Oaxaca chocolate and some cinnamon and sugar. also they had hot chocolate. yummy. these were served in a traditional red clay mug with brightly painted flowers. I couldn't find any to take back home with us.      Read more

    • TravelerHuatulco mexico
      Day 4

      cruise ship arrives on wednesdays

      April 3, 2019 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      it comes in and docks at the bay next door i think. then probably people are bused into the town La Crucecita. We were warned not to head there on Wednesdays.....so we just sat on the beach all day once again and read, and swam and walked. They have little shade structures (palapas?) on the beach that worked very well for those of us pale faces from the north. Such a hard life!

      Palapas are shade structures made from palm fibres. Palpa is a spanish word of Tagalog origin meaning petiole of the palm leaf. (wikki)      Read more

    • TravelerHuatulco mexico
      Day 4

      the grounds were beautiful

      April 3, 2019 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      Lots of palm trees, big open spaces to sit while wind blows through in the shade. Lots of tropical plants, Yellow butterfly palms, Gingers, a big monkey pod tree (Samanea saman) by the breakfast palapa (blooming white balls, albizia like foliage that closes at night), purple rhoeo plants in a planter box outside our door, the birds making nests in the butterfly palm. a wren of some sort. Pineapples (Anana colossus) being grown as ornamentals, Birds of paradise, Banana, Deifenbachia, Plumaria (frangipani), Ixora??? is this the red one, flower petals in 4's, , Octopus tree (Schefflera actinophylla) which was just starting to bloom, red upright panicle of flowers,Read more

    • TravelerHuatulco mexico
      Day 5

      and more plants

      April 4, 2019 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

      first one is one that grows at bloedel, noni from hawaii??, (morina citrifolia) next is a yucca of some sort it did have flowers at the top, then a terrible pruning of some of the trees in the plaza, figs and others, and a pink poui or cuban tabebuia (Tabebuia heterophylla) Pink Poui or Cuban Tabebuia (Tabebuia heterophylla, bignoniaceae family. native from mexico to Venezuala,Read more

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    Santa María Huatulco, Santa Maria Huatulco

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