Getting around Oaxaca

Posteado el November 28, 2007 - Categorizado en Oaxaca Tourism

A rental car is not necessary in the walkable city of Oaxaca. A taxi from the airport to the center of town costs about $14 (buy a voucher at the booth in the airport); a shuttle bus into town averages $3. If you want to explore the surrounding villages and ruins such as Monte Alban, hire a car and driver; negotiate for a price around $15 an hour. Source:washingtonpost.com

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Getting to Oaxaca

Posteado el November 28, 2007 - Categorizado en Oaxaca Tourism

The month of December, with its many religious and nonreligious festivities, is among the most popular times to visit Oaxaca. Flights for December and January from Reagan National Airport are averaging about $750 round trip.

There are also affordable one-hour direct flights from Mexico City. Mexicana has several round-trip flights a day for about $245.

The bus ride from Mexico City is about six hours and averages $40 round trip. Source:washingtonpost.com

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Hotel Bets in Oaxaca México: Casa Oaxaca

Posteado el July 31, 2007 - Categorizado en Mexico Hotels, Mexico Oaxaca Hotels, Mexico Tourism, Oaxaca Tourism

From the simple, blue façade of this colonial house, you would never guess what lies behind. Ring the bell to be admitted to a large, airy whitewashed temple to contemporary Mexican art, whose library is scattered with art reviews. Beyond the reception area and Sala de Tertulias is a large, colonnaded patio (breakfast here on fresh exotic juices, fruits, home-baked breads, eggs with black beans, tortillas, avocado, sour cream and cheese to set you up for a week) with sunken bar, leading to a second courtyard lush with banana trees and hibiscus.
There are only seven rooms, all different. Opt for the beautiful two-floor suite overlooking the pool. In its own open-plan, multi-windowed building, with sweeping stone staircase, cosy niches for desk and TV watching, it offers romantic seclusion.
Casa Oaxaca is noted for the innovative and excellent cuisine of chef Alejandro Ruiz, who also runs the nearby Casa Oaxaca restaurant (try his chilli stuffed with ceviche and passion fruit sauce). The hotel is also unique for its temazcal - a tiny hut in which stones are heated and you are enclosed, together with a rattle and bucket full of herb-enriched water, to chant away your demons under the guidance of the delightful Don Ignacio. A mere £26 will secure his services for this traditional healing ceremony. Source:telegraph.co.uk

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Hotel Bets in Oaxaca México: Camino Real

Posteado el July 31, 2007 - Categorizado en Mexico Hotels, Mexico Oaxaca Hotels, Mexico Tourism, Oaxaca Tourism

In the heart of Oaxaca’s Unesco-listed old town, just moments from the spectacular church of Santo Domingo, lies this labyrinthine former Convento de Santa Catalina. The nuns must have lived well - their cells have since welcomed the King and Queen of Spain.

Ninety-one rooms are set around five beautiful courtyard gardens, aflame with colour, one of which houses a unique covered stone basin, fed by a complicated hydraulic system, where nuns once bathed. Ceilings are high, floors tiled, walls of local Verde Antequera stone thick, and windows shuttered against the heat. Religious paintings, the remains of original frescoes, arched passageways and a small votive chapel retain the ecclesiastical flavour, although the large main chapel has been deconsecrated for events, such as the annual guelaguetza of local dancing and buffet dinner.Source:telegraph.co.uk

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Festivals in Oaxaca Mexico: Oaxaca folk festival opens to protests, few visitors

Posteado el July 25, 2007 - Categorizado en Oaxaca Tourism

Angry protests, tight security and empty hotel rooms marked the celebration Monday of Guelaguetza, a folk festival that is traditionally the biggest tourist draw of the year in this city dependent on the money visitors spend here.
A year ago, protests forced the cancellation of Guelaguetza. This month, a new round of violent demonstrations over the rule of Oaxaca state Gov. Ulises Ruiz led to hundreds of cancellations and delivered a “death blow” to the tourist industry, local business groups said.
On Monday, Ruiz joined 15,000 people for the official celebration in a hillside amphitheater on the outskirts of the city. Access to the area was blocked by hundreds of state riot police. Simultaneously, an estimated 30,000 people marched in the center of this state capital. Source:latimes.com
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