So I stayed in this really nice hostel La Isla. There is a free programme for the guests every day at 11 am. The programme is often yoga, meditation or a cocoa ceremony. Everything is really cool, relaxed and already included in the price. But what you also noticed immediately was that the first sick people were already staying in the nicely furnished hostel. At first I thought… “Shit, I hope no one has Covid”. But it soon became clear that they all “only” had stomach problems. Some of them had already been vaccinated against Covid. Anyway, I was lucky for the first three days and didn’t get sick. I also diligently ignored the notices in the bathroom about not brushing my teeth with the tap water. After that, it got slightly worse. From day 6, things really went downhill, even though I had just moved to a really cool hotel, Posada Ocho Barrios. Actually, I only wanted to stay there one night and then make my way north to Palenque. However, the next day I got really worse all of a sudden, I got a fever of 40 degrees and was glad that the really nice owners of the hostel looked after me so sweetly and in the end took me to the hospital and got me all the medication. After my visit to the hospital, where my fever was first reduced to a reasonable temperature and I was given an antibiotic, I was fortunately slowly getting better again.
[…] Here I am, struggling with a stomach bug for the last week and taking a nice dose of antibiotics. The good news is that I survived the food capital Oaxaca just fine. I’ll report on my battle with bacteria in the next article, when it’s “Chiapas/San Cristobal and why every tourist stays here longer?“. […]
I am very glad to see that you visited Palenque in a red T-Shirt;) So, finally you got one 😉
hahaha, thank you Uli, I wear it with proud!