Oaxaca State Getting there & around

Getting there & around

Continental Airlines flies direct from Houston to Oaxaca and Bahías de Huatulco. There are also flights to both these airports and Puerto Escondido from Mexico City; Oaxaca also has air connections with other Mexican cities. Small planes hop from Oaxaca to Puerto Escondido and Huatulco.

Oaxaca city has good bus links with Mexico City and Puebla to the north and a few daily services to/from Veracruz, Villahermosa, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, San Cristóbal de las Casas and Tapachula. Suburban-type vans provide the most effective service between Oaxaca and Pochutla (the transportation hub for the central Oaxaca coast) and Puerto Escondido, via Hwys 175 and 131 respectively.

Plenty of buses travel along coastal Hwy 200 into Oaxaca from Acapulco and Chiapas.

There are three options for travel between Pochutla and the beach towns and villages to its southwest: camioneta (pickup trick – a fun way to travel), colectivo (shared) taxi and private taxi.

Camionetas and colectivo taxis all start from various Pochutla side streets then travel south down Av Cárdenas picking up passengers as they go. People often wait for them outside Mueblería García, a furniture store about 100m uphill from Hotel Santa Cruz. Fares (camioneta/colectivo) are M$5/10 to Puerto Ángel (20 minutes), M$10/15 to Zipolite (30 minutes) and M$8/10 to San Agustinillo (45 minutes) or Mazunte (40 minutes). Vehicles bound for Mazunte do not generally travel through Puerto Ángel but head west along Hwy 200 to San Antonio, then backtrack southeast to Mazunte and continue to San Agustinillo and the west (Roca Blanca) end of Zipolite. Both camionetas and colectivos run about every half-hour from around 7am to 7pm.

Private cabs from Pochutla during the day should cost around M$60 to Puerto Ángel and M$100 to Zipolite, San Agustinillo or Mazunte; at night they charge up to 50% more.