Postcards from Huatulco

Part 2 of our trip to Huatulco, Mexico! We spent one afternoon touring around the city and surroundings of Huatulco, and since we visited during “low season” our tour ended up being a private tour. Jaime was great! And very patient with all of my picture taking needs.

Huatulco is a fishing village, which they are slowly attracting more American tourists. When we went there was one flight from the States each Saturday. It brought 50 people, and took another 50 people home. I never thought of this, but someone asked me What if something happen and you needed to get home? There are several flights out of Huatulco a day, you’d just have to go layover in Mexico.

After checking out the jungle, mountainous landscape and bays around Huatulco, we headed into town. Huatulco, and Oaxaca state, are known for their spices, mole, cheese, Mezcal, and fried grasshoppers. I totally ate grasshopper. Not bad. They go through a process of getting the insect to “purge” so you don’t eat its poo (if you will), and then they fry it… it really tastes like anything else fried and crispy.

Aaron really enjoyed the Mezcal. Good thing we had driver! I barely let the stuff touch my lips, it’s like rubbing alcohol to me. But you know we walked out of the little shop with Mezcal, cheese, mole, and I found some pottery.

Next we went to the weaver’s shop. This guy is 64 years old, he’s in better shape than we are! This shop makes all of their own fabrics, no machines. They had beautiful shirts, scarves, tableclothes, napkins…ect… The best part was watching him work, he’s so fast! It was incredible.

Finally, we took a walk around the central square, saw the church… although they were having service, so we didn’t get to see inside. And then Jaime took us to one of his favorite places for dinner. For Mexican Pizza. I was skeptical. I didn’t come to Mexico to have pizza. But it was really good! Sort of like an open faced Quesadilla with mole. After dinner the owner came over and offered us a shot of his Mezcal…I declined, but Aaron sure loved!

Again, a big thank you to All Inclusive Vacations for finding us Huatulco!

Here is a previous post of Huatulco – at the Beach.

Mexico Vacation Part 1

It had been years since my husband and I traveled, just the two of us. Don’t get me wrong, we are always up to something. But even while in Europe, it was to visit family and friends. And we decided it was time! Thanks to great friends (and clients) at All-Inclusive Vacations for listening to what we wanted to do on our vacation (a bit of nothing, some deep sea fishing, surfing, golfing, and we wanted an unconventional location) they found us Huatulco. Never heard of it? I’m not surprised, 90% of those we’ve talked to have no idea either. Its a tiny fishing village on the Pacific side of Mexico, almost to Guatemala. There is one flight in from the US each week (flights from Mexico City daily) and only a small handful of Resort type hotels. Exactly what we were looking for.

I took a ton of pictures… surprise?… so Part 1 is a few of my favorite Beach pics, since this is what we did for the first few days… Stared at the water from mid morning through sunset.

As a photographer, my favorite part was just watching the color of the water and sky change based on the light. I loved late afternoon as the sun was starting to get low in the sky and hide behind the mountains. And of course we had some amazing sunsets.

Stay tuned for images from some of our excursions!

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Postcards from Huatulco

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Mexico Vacation Part 1