Hola and welcome back to our little travel blog – yes, still running! 🙂
Today I would like to share some further great experiences with you about: Huatulco, Oaxaca.
When day 1 of our 3-days trip slowly fade away we knew Huatulco Is amazing.
And that is precisely what was confirmed the following day: at our Bahía Tour.
In the small haven of Santa Cruz we embarked with about 100 Mexicans on the “Katamaran” called Tequila. The sun burned relentlessly and everybody was excited to visit the 5 planned bays + beaches.
Promptly, our tour guide Hannibal introduced the crew and himself to the crowd, raising the mood further by announcing free drinks. Hannibal, a born entertainer from the region, turned out to be one of the nicest and most honest persons ever. He gave great advice about the city, explained the economic situation and, ultimately, was just a super happy lively guy.
Anyhow: it’s a overall scheme in this place – honesty. People without exception deliberately give you directions & recommendations, restaurants do not bother/harass you to enter if you don’t want and also taxis keep their standard rate without trying to rip you off. It’s just a great experience and reveals so much about the country and people.
A small story to showcase this: toilets at the dock. When we were at the dock yesterday, wandering around, there was the urgent need to find a toilet. None was available, expect of the one at the small harbour. But.. it was already closed as the operations of the dock also were. Point is: when the police man in charge of security saw us he right away (against his initial thoughts) opened it again and helped us out. Afterwards, we thankfully briefly chatted with him and he turned out a super friendly guy. – Together with Hannibal, the blogs motto is over and over confirmed: the individual people we meet everyday make the difference.
Back to the Bahia’s tour. First stop: snorkel bay. We received a brief introduction to snorkeling and it’s materials by Brian. Brian btw was a diver originally from Los Cabos, Baja California. The landscape was amazing: virgin beaches, sea turtles, cristalin bright blue water and a cool jungle-like surrounding. After jumping into the blue, we took a nice uncoordinated snorkel tour over the reef solely enjoying every aspect of it.
Fun fact: there were even people joining without knowing how to swim. Scary – but can you decline them this experience in this awesome place? After all they were chained to a floating ring and under close surveillance. Win-win.
Next up: 2 more beaches, hour long cruises along the scattered coastline, nature and a boat full of good mood and happiness. We saw creatively, and surprisingly accurately, named stone formations, more virgin beaches and even some dolphins jumping next to our ride!
To round it up, we visited a last beach hosting some touristy restaurants and enjoyed a shrimp cocktail and some paletas (lime, mango chamoy).
When we had returned to the docks the sun already had given us a sweet touch and we ended this perfect day and 3-days trip with some esquites (maíz).
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