The drive from Mexico City to Oaxaca city took a pleasant 7hrs but we finally arrived in the late afternoon ready to enjoy the night life! We wandered the streets for a few hours, tasted all the Mexican street food and people watched as the locals tried to sell us anything they could! The town was littered with army trucks and federal police so we called it a night and had an early one!
Day 1 in Oaxaca was probably the most interesting day to date, after getting on the wrong tour bus, exploring pyramids for 3 hours in Monte Alban, getting lost on a mountain, convincing 2 Mexicans who couldn't speak a word of English to drive us back to our hostel while they sang us songs in Spanish and somehow avoiding getting kidnapped we finally decided that maybe we should probably try and learn a few useful sentences in Spanish.
Day 2 was even more proof of this, after getting lost on the high way over and over again while trying to find a taxi we finally found someone to drive us to Mitla so we could catch a bus to Hierve El Agua. If there is one thing that's evident about Mexico it's the lack of road rules, or rules in general. We somehow crammed 7 people in a 5 seater civic and were on our way, at about 150kms an hour. Once again the language barrier left us in a sticky situation - when the taxi driver decided to boot us because we couldn't go any further up the mountain, we found ourselves lost..again. After a decent hike in the hot Mexican sun we finally arrived at Heirve El Agua, and I would like to believe it was more than worth it!
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