Travel to Oaxaca, Mexico – Amateur Traveler Episode 174 Transcript

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Travel to Oaxaca, Mexico – Episode 174 Transcript

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Chris: Wow, ok.

Sarah: So they’re amazing. Yeah, so we went hiking up there and went to a little restaurant there and had some coffee and chocolate and then came back down to the city and went out and had a couple of beers. And so.. Walked around. That was my perfect day in Oaxaca.

Chris: One warning you would give before you go to Oaxaca?

Sarah: Warning? Definitely, like most places in Mexico you want to be warry of pickpockets especially if you’re going to be in the major tourist areas like the 20 de Noviembre Market and the zocalo and places like that. Crime wise, Oaxaca is pretty safe and pretty tranquillo in the center of the city. But at nighttime, you definitely want to be a little bit cautious. I mean you don’t want to be sort of walking around back streets with not a very clear idea of where you are. So if you are out past one or two, it might be a good idea to take a taxi back to your hotel and sort of take precautions.

And one more thing that’s important is a lot of buses and a lot of taxis leave from the Central de Abastos. Which is like the big sort of downtown bus station. You definitely want to be very careful there, wandering around because there are a lot of sort of petty crime that goes on there so they could steal your cell phone or your bag or whatever. So you just want to be really aware of what is going around you if you are going to go there.

Chris: Obviously would recommend people to learn Spanish or some Spanish before they go. If they don’t, if you just know English, get by ok?

Sarah: Uh – yeah. Oh yeah. You should have no problems in the city center. Yeah. There’s a lot of .. And they have little tourist booths stationed around the city so if you’re really lost you can go there and ask for help or information or what not.

Chris: The first time you went, what do you wish you had known?

Sarah: What do I wish I had known? I wish I had had a better sense of the geography of the city because I spent most of my time pretty much wandering around the zocalo and south of the zocalo. And had I known about well I guess the different restaurants and what not that are further north of the zocalo and had I known about the sort of other neighborhoods Xochimilco and Habra Blanco that are right next to the city but you just cross a couple of the periphery roads and you’re in these other sort of cobblestone old colonial neighborhoods. I definitely would have wandered around there and I would have wandered further north of the zocalo had I had a better sense of the layout of the city and what not.

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