Huatulco, Mexico

I had planned to travel again during spring break, but an opportunity arose where both Dave and I could travel together so I quickly booked a trip, found 2 teachers who will willing to take my classes and we were off for a weeklong February break.

Huatulco (pronounced was-TOOL-co) is in the state of Oaxaca on the Pacific coast of Mexico. It's official name is Bahias de Huatulco referring to the fact that this resort area is clustered around nine bays at base of the Sierra Madre mountains. The area spans 20 miles of the Pacific coastline and includes 36 beaches. Visit Mexico
claims that this area is one of Mexico's most relaxed destinations.

We took a six hour direct flight from Vancouver with a plane load of Canadians and arrived to find a part of Mexico that was also full of Canadians.

We stayed at  Las Brisas with 3 private beaches and its own coral reef.

We stayed from Feb 13-20, which included Valentine's Day. The resort had roaming cupids handing out chocolate.

The resort is surrounded by 50 acres of botanical hillside gardens and getting around requires using stairs. There are carts that take you around but consider this; to get from the restaurant/pool/bar level to the lobby level where you will find these carts, you will have to climb these.....

and possibly these, which is just one set of stairs you may need to climb to get to your room....

We were in the lower section

Some of the stairs we needed to climb to get from the beach to our room.

The obligatory view from our room. It was worth the climb.

Our favourite breakfast restaurant was the Mexican restaurant. It was open-air with a great view of the snorkelling beach and the coral reef. 

Loved all of the wood around the resort.

We took a city tour on Sunday, which turned out not to be such a good day as most shops were closed. The charming little town of  La Crucecita was one of the stops. So nice to see that there are no traditional fast food restaurants in the area.

We took a sunset sail tour as we can only see the sunrise from the resort. 

 We also took a tour to see crocodiles and turtles raised to be reintroduced.

Iguana in the mangrove

And lastly we took a snorkelling tour. We love snorkelling and this time we saw a puffer fish, eels, a baby shark and many colourful fish. It was so nice that we could snorkel right at our resort but we wanted more.

One of the many beaches along the way

Face in the rocks

Two whales

Lunch break at a beach only accessible by water

We came home on Friday and Dave had to leave for work in Indonesia on Monday. I was so happy to be able to share a holiday with him and I am now planning how I can whisk him away for another.