Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Puerto Escondido

So after the 15+ hoursx on busses to get here, we finally arrived Sunday morning! We dropped our bags off at our hostel, threw on our swimsuits and hit the beach! I did surfing lessons and it was SO fun!! It was so exhilirating to stand up and catch a wave (whenever I stood up, the beach boys song "catch a wave and you're standing on top of the world" song popped into my head!)! Then we just floated around and played in the MASSIVE waves! Monday we hit up the market and did some shopping and of course went back and played at the beach and had a delish lunch, then rented snorkels and boogie boards, but it was too wavy to see anything! Tuesday we were up bright and early at 6:30 for a boat tour-we came outside, and there was a truck parked outside our hostel, so we hopped in the back, and they took us to the boat harbour, we hopped in a tiny fish boat in the dark, & sped out into the ocean to watch the sunrise! And we saw TONS of dolphins jumping right beside our boat, soooo fun, and massive sea turtles! That night we headed to the big beach for a delish dinner of seafood, and then Wednesday we played at the beach, and rode horses on the beach as the sunset! Thursday was shopping, playing at the big beach, waiting 3 hrs for the lady selling headbands to come, ordering a super expensice dessert on the beach, only to discover it was stragiht creamcheese w/ caramel on top, collecting gorgeous rocks and shells on the beach, only to have me forget them in our taxi! It has been a wonderful trip!

The closest beach to our hostel, we came here almost every day
This beach had pretty big waves for playing in, and a strong riptide! A little scary, but we were always able to get out of them!
Katelyn & I paddling out to surf!
We went to a different beach where there was supposed to be reall good snorkelling, but we rented the snorkels and went in, but it was super wavy that it washed up all the sand and we couldnt see a thing! So then we tried for boogie boards, but those didn't really work out either-needless to say, we were not impressed!
We were trying to climb over all these rocks to see if we could get to the next beach over, but we could only go this far before it would have been straight rock climbing!

We signed up for a boat tour through our hostel, so one morning we got up at 6:30am, and there was a little truck outside, so we climbed in the back and they drove us to the harbour, and we hopped off a boat and went out to see, so fun and so pretty!
Delicious seafood by the seashore!
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He pulled a turtle on the boat, I was so excited! And we saw TONS of dolphins jumping beside our boat, I just enjoyed it and didn't bother trying to catch it on camera!

I didn't take a ton of pictures this trip, mostly because I never got ready, and I have just taken SO many pictures on all our other trips! But it was super fun, the 18+ hrs on busses however were not (especially because I get SO motion sickness, I took drammamine and still threw up! Thank heavens for bathrooms on the busses!)! We left yesterday at 7am, and got to the airport this morning at 5am, and I tried to check in, but I have to wait until 9! AH, I HATE flying alone, I get anxiety because I always get lost and dont know where to go! It will feel SO good to get to Philly tonight, and then not have to think about flying for 12 more days!!

(p.s. when I got there, I didn't have any beach cover-ups, but they didnt have any cute ones that I liked, plus I didnt have any room in my bags, so I didnt want to buy a cute one that I'd have to leave there, so I just bought the trashy tourist tanktop for 1$ & wore it everycday!)





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