Puerto Escondido

Playa del Amor, Zipolite, the view out of our hotel room

Surfer's paradise, no other words possible

Puerto Escondido, Zicatela

Ready for the "Bicentenario"!

Playa de Zicatela

Hola gente, qué tal? Ya me extañan mucho?

It's blogging time again, I just got a sms with the news, I receive it every day, and the most interesting was that Mexico is the nr 1 country of obesity (OCDE). Well, no wonder! Soda is cheaper than water, everything is twice as sweet as in Europe (even natural yoghurt with "no sugar") and the food is just too delicious and too cheap! I don't have a scale, but a surely should be careful on my weight, if not in December the plain won't be able to take off!!!

Well, I'm gonna tell u about my "puente del Bicentenario" - long weekend of the independence anniversary.

As I said before, I went to Puerto Escondido, a surfer's paradise on the southwest coast of Mexico. We went in a van with a group of 20 ITAM students, only 4 were mexicans. The trip took in total 14 hours, but as we travelled at night it was ok and it is definitely worth it! The first three days and nights we stayed at Playa de Zicatela, Puerto Escondido's main beach with HUGE waves! The waves seemed really good but nobody was surfing because they were just too big and there was a strong current. We spend the independence party there and we had a surf lesson. To surf we went to another beach, perfect waves, warm water, beautiful nature, yes, I was in paradise. The surf instructors lend me a short board so I could go and surf on my own, I loved it. The mexican surfers were very nice, not like in Portugal were they are worried you "steel" their waves! It was a good time and to get some extra energy, nothing better than a fresh coconut :) Puerto Escondido is amazing, I've never seen so many "hot", but really "hot", surf dudes and no chicks! :p

The other 2 days we spend at Playa del Amor, Zipolite, which was like in the middle of nowhere, a little less touristic and our hotel was right on the beach. I'm so in love with that beach, probably that's why it's called like that because I did not see much "amor" hahaha A stunning very quite beach with a lot of hammocks and (almost falling a part) beach huts for rent. It was the place to eat seafood and fresh fish mmm we went on a boat tour to see turtles, which are very common there, but the sea was very wavy and we only saw 4 and some dolphins, but it was a great adventure! Basically what we did those days was beach and eating ahahah I only went out one night, a very cool alternative bar next to our hotel, it was fun because it was the bday of a mexican friend, Nayeli.

We arrived back in Mexico City on monday 2am, so I stayed the night at Karen's (she lives 5min walking from ITAM) as I had classes at 8.30am. This week was quite tough, as I don't study and work for uni during the weekends, everything needs to be done during the week. And I also (finally) got some problems with my intestines that did not like the fish tacos as much as my mouth did... But I'm already feeling better now. Though the doctor gave me antibiotics, they do that for all little pains here... Next week I've got one presentation and one quizz and the week after another test and a delivery of a 5page essay, so yes, I got quite some thing to do. But...

Tomorrow I'm going to Taxco, Mexico's silver city, it's about 3 hours from Mexico City. I'm going with a group of 8 exchange students and maybe my roomies are coming too. We're gonna stay only one night so on sunday I'll have a study day. This country is way too beautiful and interesting to spend my time studying! It's so tempting to go traveling also because it's so cheap. Tomorrow the hotel will cost 7 euros for one night! But next weekend I'm definitely staying in the City.

Mmm amo México, the only problem is that's a little far away from you guys... Come and visit me!

Bueno, I'm going to try the imitation of my tuna pasta recipe my roomy made, let's see!

Bye bye