Last Week in Puerto

On my last week in Puerto, I tried to get a bunch of things done that we have been wanting to do...

Like breakfast at a new restaurant in Zicatela!

And like every Sunday, working on my homework for clinicals :-( 

We visited a Partera Tradicional, a traditional midwife who has been in the business for like 50 years...a child has never died under her care!!!

We also went looking for Chinches, a tick-like insect (see below) that carries a parasite which causes a deadly illness known as Chagas

Pizza de Oaxaca

A live chinche!

Sara & I also checked out a new beach...la Playa Bacocho...

A random, non-fuctioning water park in the middle of nowhere!

Playa Bacocho

La Puesta del Sol (Sunset) en Bacocho

We just walked along the beach, and we found this restaurant, so we decided to sit in the chairs & order drinks.  Not many people were there, so we decided to also swim in the pool since it was less salty than the ocean.  We swam there & hung out for like 4 hours.  As we were leaving, we found out it was a Private Club and that we were supposed to pay a cover.  Oooops!  We worked our way out of it by pretending we didn't speak Spanish.  :-) 

The next day, we went snorkeling close to Puerto, but the water was kinda dirty, and there were thousands and thousands of small jellyfish that stung you all over your body.  It was pretty to see the fish, but it was quite uncomfortable...when hundreds of them are stinging you all at the same time, it kinda feels like when your arm falls asleep & then it starts to wake up & kinda feels like pins...except it happens ALL over your body with jellyfish, lol.  

We spotted a turtle from the boat

Sara & I in our borrowed wet suits in an attempt to prevent the jellyfish from stinging us

A "Taste of Oaxaca"...a little bit of everything that's typical for the area