1.On the beach in Puerto Escondido 
2. Big waves in Zicatela 
3. Chacauha 
4. Local baby 
5.Eating fresh oysters 
6. The chef cook 
7. Bjoern in the water
8. Partying in the local bar 
9.Bjoern with friends
10. View from the light house
11. Cutting coco nuts 
12. Jana and Carmen
Puerto Escondido is home to the biggest beach break in the world, called Zicatela, which is also referd to as the Mexican pipeline, so I made sure not to surf it. Instead we went to a point break called la punta, where I did not get any waves because I suck on lefts and the crowd was pretty big. Instead I cut my foot on some rocks in the water and we had a long and nice conversation with an 50 year old guy from argentina who is living in Mexico for about 20 years and tried to convince us to move there as well. Puerto Escondido was fun though, nice night life, lots of tourists who want to have fun and a good laid back surfer vibe. We got out there after 4 days and made our way north up the coast. We ended up in little fisher village. The journey there was an adventure on its own. First we had to get by bus to a little town, there we grabbed a cab to go to a „ferry“, which was a small boat. Took a 5 minute boat trip to cross a lagoon, which inhabits 5 meter crocodiles and then a pick up truck waited to take us for a 40 minute ride on a bumpy dirtroad. Needless to say that we sat on wooden benches that were screwed onto the truck s platform. Finally we arrived in this incredible fisher village just to realize that we barely brought money and that there was no ATM on the entire island. So Bjoern went back to Puerto Escondido on the next day to get money and 4 hours later we were set. Inicially we planned to stay in the village for 3 days, ended up staying for 2 weeks. Bjoern went surfing the best rights every day, while Jana practised her spanish with a nice Mexican couple, named Paulette and Augusto, that we made friends with.
You could not eat anything else apart from fish and seafood. The food depended on the daily catch, which could be lobster, clams, fish or even oysters. Actually one day we went to a beachshack with a huge group to get oysters. We had ordered five oyster portions on the day before, but we showed up with 8 people, so our host just got his goggles and went to get more out of the ocean. As you can see in the pictures this wasn t the only attraction in the village. El Rey (the king) put up a Christmas show for us and prepared us fresh sushi from his morning catch. One night we went by boat to the other side of the lagoon to visit Dona Cali, a 50 year old local woman, who has the only bar with a juke box. We arrived there with about 20 people and had a blast. By the end of the night her brother wanted us to become the godfather and godmother of his grandchildren. Well it was a great night. Actually the whole place was kind of magic, even though there were no proper toilets nor showers. Everything needed to be flushed by water that you brought in a bucket. Back to nature – we loved every single bit of it…
2.Typical public bus 
