Transportation in Mexico runs from great tour size long haul buses, old beat up town buses, cabs, pick up trucks (where everyone stands/sits in the back), taxis and collectivos (shared rides in vans - squish 12 bodies in or taxis - squish 6 people in).
We ended up taking a shared taxi to and from several beaches this week. They're cheap - abt 25 pesos ($2) for the 2 of us for 14 km or so. As we got in the taxi we heard another driver yell, "It's Taco Time!" We didn't really give it much thought until the driver crammed a 3rd person into the 2 bucket seats in front and another alongside the 2 of us in the back. Ah! It was Taco Time. The person in the middle was the 'filler', while the 2 on each side of them (Shayne) was the taco shell. Poor girl in front was crammed onto the stick shift.
On our return home, Y bargained the taxi from 70 pesos to 25 pesos. Suddenly, the private taxi we thought we had a great deal for, became a shared taxi. Within a minute, the tiny 4-seater was filled with 6 people. Shayne got stuck up front crammed between 2 locals, with the stick shift rubbing his leg. He volunteered to shift for the driver. The taxi was so heavy with the 3 hombres in the front, it would bottom out going over the topes or speed bumps. Local woman in back with Y just laughed. Shared taxis offer great value, great fun and you get to meet people up close, sweaty and personal.
A real taco is a tourist mujer (woman) stuck between 2 local hombres. A meaty taco is one cab ride with 3 hombres all squeezed in together. Ha!
We made it out to 2 great beaches - Bocana and Tongalunda just south of Santa Cruz (Huatulco) where we stayed for a week.
Playa la Bocana - 20 minutes south by taxi from Huatulco.
Can you see the face (s)????
Playa la Bocana - 20 minutes south by taxi from Huatulco.
Bocana looks like the original Planet of Apes movie could have been filmed on the beach.
Can you see the face (s)????
The art of the scarf.... at the All Inclusive resorts that line the Tongalunda Bay.
When we made our way down from the road on the muddy, public pathway, we started looking for a cold beer. Walking along the beach, we noticed no one wore the dreaded wrist band that shouted tourist to the locals every time you left your resort.
For experienced travelers, this was an opportunity much like a piranha sees when getting into a goldfish bowl. Ha ha! We ended up at the far end of the bay, where one resort had a quiet beach side bar, walked up from the beach and Y ordered us 2 cold beer. Heaven! Quickly had 2 more while scouting the beach from the bar stools. Found an empty palapa, nice lounge chairs, discovered where we could get some of those plushy, resort beach towels and soon made ourselves at home.
Left a tip with the bartender, ordered some rum n cokes/margheritas. The free drinks flowed all afternoon - made me kind of nostalgic for the lazy eat and drink lifestyle. We tipped our servers to ensure they checked in on a regular basis to see if we need more drinks
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Oh, and the Bahia had great snorkeling!!
More on this area in the next post...
More on this area in the next post...
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