Havn´t been near a computer for the past few days cause we´ve been at the beach. We got the bus to Puerto Angel on Wednesday and it took 7 hours across windy roads over the mountains. It was really strange all the different landscapes and climates we passed on the way, first desert and then tropical forests and finally the beach. It´s like paradise here, Puerto Angel is a small fishing village with beautiful beaches all around. The first night we arrived we watched the fishermen bring in the tuna and then later on that night we ate it on the beach where their wives cooked it. We went to Zipolite on thursday and it´s a great beach with huts all along where you can rent a hammock for the night for 30 pesos. Yesterday we went on a boat around the whole area, we swam with turtles and went snorkling, there were loads of colourful fish and different types of coral to see. We´re going to Mazunte today and then we´ll get the night bus back to Oaxaca to meet Caty´s friend Claire. Sorry for not mailing anyone but the sun is shining and there´s an awefull lot of laying around doing nothing to be done, so Adios Amigos.

Just read over yesterday`s entry, I should use full stops more often. We were going to go to the beach today but I woke with a massive hangover so couldn`t face the 5 and a half hour busride. Only one of the blokes turned up last night, John from Dublin, he was sound and we all went to a great bar with a singer songwriter session was on and the beers were only 10 peso`s. We have discovered Mexico`s answer to Janice Joplin, if anyone knows any music producers come over to Oaxaca and sign her up. I shouldn`t have gone for that second Mescal though, I`m feeling the pain today. We decided to do something not too hard today so we went to see the fattest tree in the world. While there we met two extremely good looking Norwegians, after about 10 mins conversation we had to loose them `cause I was about to hang myself with the bordom, how can something so beautiful be so empty? I think I better go now `cause those malaria tabs are making me feel sick (I swear it`s not the mescal).

Today we went to Monte Alban, it´s really amazing, it´s a Zapotek Pyramid site on the top of a mountain with the most beautiful panoramic views. It was really peaceful up there it felt like the top of the world. Monte Alban is not as big or well touristy as Teotihaucan, it´s also less intimidating. We got the bus there but managed to get the wrong bus, the driver didn´t charge us I suppose they have a policy of the first two Gringas going free, anyway we had to walk about half an hour up the side of the mountain with an old German (possibly Pedophile) gentleman. Once we got rid of the German I managed to pick up 4 gringos at the top of the pyramid (fine fit lads who had cycled up the mountain) and we´re meeting them for beer in about an hour, should be fun.

We´re still in Oaxaca and it´s beginning to feel a bit like home, the internet cafe sort of smells like feet though. Thismorning we went ot the market in Tlaclula, it´s bout an hour´s bus ride away through the desert on the second class bus. The second class bus station was our first real glimse of mexico as third world country, it´s a sort of ´jump over the dead dog´place. Tlaclula was a small town completely converted into a market on sundays, it was kind of scary actually but there were loads of colourfully dress indigenous people who wouldn´t let me take their photo. There was alot of tack on sale but also a few hand crfts, not as nice or cheap as the ones in the market we found behind the church in Oaxaca. well I think it´s about time for a cerveza now.