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Oaxaca Part IV: The Final Chapter
Aug. 12th, 2003 08:32 pmAll good things must come to an end, some of them much too soon. It seems a bit silly to spend three weeks on the road just to spend 4 days in one place, but, oh well.
We got up (sort of) at the crack of dawn only to a) decide we'd do the botanical garden before the village and b) find out the tour was at 11 and not 10.
The tour was quite interesting -- it lasted two hours, so that's a good thing. The garden only has plants that are native to the region, so there are lots of different varieties of cacti, as well as other exotic and not-so-exotic species. Also, those were two hours spent in the sun, so I was really glad for the sombreros de visitadores they lend out.
After we had lunch we took a bus to the village of Atzumpa to buy pottery, which sounds a hell of a lot easier than it is. First of all we had to walk all the way to the 2nd-class bus station, then it took us at least twenty minutes to find the bus we were supposed to take. Not content with a regular bus terminal, the Oaxacan bus companies use the three or four surrounding streets as informal bus terminals as well. Chaos!
We eventually found our bus (we saw it go by and ran after it, following it into the station by the "No Peatones" route, oops!) and got to the village 15 minutes later, bought some obscenely cheap pottery and came back into town.
Tomorrow we leave at dawn (hah!) to start the long journey home, so I don't know when I'll next be able to update. Until then, cheers!
We got up (sort of) at the crack of dawn only to a) decide we'd do the botanical garden before the village and b) find out the tour was at 11 and not 10.
The tour was quite interesting -- it lasted two hours, so that's a good thing. The garden only has plants that are native to the region, so there are lots of different varieties of cacti, as well as other exotic and not-so-exotic species. Also, those were two hours spent in the sun, so I was really glad for the sombreros de visitadores they lend out.
After we had lunch we took a bus to the village of Atzumpa to buy pottery, which sounds a hell of a lot easier than it is. First of all we had to walk all the way to the 2nd-class bus station, then it took us at least twenty minutes to find the bus we were supposed to take. Not content with a regular bus terminal, the Oaxacan bus companies use the three or four surrounding streets as informal bus terminals as well. Chaos!
We eventually found our bus (we saw it go by and ran after it, following it into the station by the "No Peatones" route, oops!) and got to the village 15 minutes later, bought some obscenely cheap pottery and came back into town.
Tomorrow we leave at dawn (hah!) to start the long journey home, so I don't know when I'll next be able to update. Until then, cheers!
