Jan 18 & 19 Tuxtla

Very large city. bus was $308 to get here from Juchitan, first class, thats $30.80.
We are staying in the Hotel Casablanca $214 (21.40) a night, staying two nights.
In the morning we went to the zoo. What a great zoo. Sometimes you wonder who is in the cage or were does the cage start and do they know they are in a cage. In fact some of the lesser dangerous ones were not in a cage.
I did find myself looking up a lot to make sure no monkeys were above us. At one time some kind of frut fell out of a very tall tree and landed right next to me. It made a very loud splat sound when it hit the ground. I am so glad it missed me, it would have hurt and there was a big purple stain were it hit the ground. Zoo was free.
We then went on a boat ride down the Cañon del Sumidero. The boat ride was $200. ($20.00).
We saw crock's and a lot of other birds. The cliff's above us were anywere from 500 to 2000 feet. This is a great trip.

Juchitan

This was just a stopping place to spend the night so we can catch a better bus in the morning. We had a TV in the room with english speaking movies.
It was very windy which made it a lot cooler. This was a very nice clean town.

Jan 14 Puerto Angeñ

Colectivo from Pochutla to Puerto Angel was $30 (.30)
Our hotel is on a hill overlooking the bay. Their are trees all around, with flowers. The terace has hammoks to lay in. You can order you meals right there. Never have to leave unless ofcourse you want to take in the beaches.
Our room is $230 ($23) a night. Its a big room. No windows but the roof lets in air for ventalation.
We stayed here 3 nights.
A family from Germany are also staying here. Our second night Larry and I decided to shair the meal (dinners are $75 ($7.50)) The 3 year old didn´t think Larry was getting enough to eat and then when Larry didn´t get a dessert he wanted to give Larry his Mom´s.
On the 16th I started comming down with a cold. I decided to stay at the hotel and let Larry go swimming on his own.
I got to see a lot of the wild life that also lives at the hotel. Lizzards and an orange Catapuler amoung a few.

Acapulco

We spent two nights here. The bus ride was $226 ($22.60). First class with A/C, was very hot when we got off the bus.
Hotel Califorina $240 ($24) a night we decided to spend two nights.
Larry asked about the cliff divers while I was not around so he suprized me when he asked if I wanted to go and see them.
There was a fee for watching but we were never asked to pay. I think that if you paid you also got a drink, didn't need a drink.
Acapulco has a woolworth's were we had coffee in the morning.
We went to an old fort, Fuerte San Diego. This is a great museum. Some of the rooms have vido's in them, you can choose to hear them in spanish or english. Then when you go on top of the fort you get a 360 degree view of Acapulco.
It's hot in Acapulco, there are some great beaches but we didn´t swim.
Larry is getting over his cold.
We had noticed parking meters that no one seems to use, but on Friday night the metter patrol comes out and if you don´t use them you get a ticket and your plate taken off your car.
We left Acapulco on the 13th, spent the night in Pochutla, I have nothing to say about this place.

Zihatanejo

Bus ride from Lazaro Cardene to Zihatanejo was $94 for both of us, that's $9.40. We stayed at Casa de Huespedes Elvira. Room was $250 ($25.00). Room was clean lots of windows and both fans worked.
The hotel enterance was on one street and the restreant enterance was on the next street. While our hotel was right on the bay frount we could not see the water from our room.
Larry seems to be comming down with a cold. That is a chance you have to take when riding on a bus. Both of us has soup for dinner. we didn't plan it that way she just misunderstood what Larry was trying to say to her. It was good and we were tired so we went back to our room and to bed.

Playa Azul

We had a wonderful 4 days in playa azul. I did say in my last blog that the water was wonderful here but you must watch were you go in as you can get pulled down the shore line quite far. Larry went in one day in frount of the plapia we were having our morning coffee at and when he came back out he was suprized to see that he had to look for the place.
We wspent a little more here for food than in Chacala. It really makes a differance if you can cook at least one or two meals on your own.
One morning I was on the beach looking for shells and found a very small fish that had washed up on shore. It was still alive so I threw it back into the sea.
We went for a boat ride in the lagoon with one of the fisherman. He is a local Indian. We also ate at his place. While he did not charge us anything we gave him $50 ($5.00) for the time he and his family gave to us. He also fixed me a coconut to have to drink.

Jan 7 Palaya Azule

We left Chacala Jan 1. We travled by bus by day and spent the nights in a differant town for the next 3 days.
Jan 1st we were in Melaque. We had planned on staying here for two days but decided to move on. The bus from PV cost us $28 dollars or $280 pesos.
Jan 2ed we stayed in Borros Navadad. We used a city bus to get there cost was .90 cents.
This evening there were dancers doing a cermonal dance. I think it was honnering the full moon.
I didn't have my camera so no pictures.
Jan 3 Manzanillo $8 dollars. Much larger town, must be a circus in town as a pickup drove through with a lioness in the back.
Jan 4th Cuyutlan, Old salt mine town. The beach has almost black sand. Cost to use one of the chairs on the beack for both of us would have been $8 dollars. We did not use the chairs.
Jan 5th we arrive in Palaya Azule. Room cost us $18 dollars a night, we are staying here until the 10th. We ment a man here from NY, he has been comming here for 3 years. Yesterday while we were in the water he was stung by a ray, on his foot.
Its very warm here and the water is wonderful.