Great time in the City of Oaxaca

Church of Santo Domingo, Oaxaca

It was another very sunny day in San Cristobal de las Casas. Even though it was sunny during all three days of my stay there, the temperature was lower than where I’ve previously been in Mexico and Guatemala, due to the higher altitude. It was actually quite pleasant during the day, but nights were cold.

I’ve said goodbye to my host Marco and head towards the bus station to catch a morning bus to Tuxtla, and then from there to Oaxaca. The landscape between these two cities was different to anything I’ve seen before in Mexico. For the big part we drove through a desert type of terrain, with only some vegetation on it. When we passed through Tehuantepec we were half a way to Oaxaca, and at the closest point to the Oaxacan coast. When I was making the itinerary before coming to Mexico, I wanted to spend some time in a nice quiet village on the Oaxacan coast, called San Agustinilo. I was making arrangements to volunteer there, but unfortunately that plan didn’t come to fruition. I find the Oaxacan coast with its foresty mountains in the background quite attractive, and hopefully one day I’ll make it there. Later on I heard an opinion of a person where I’ve stayed in Tepoztlan that Oaxacan coast has the best beaches he ever seen in his life.