■ OAXACA, MEXICO: Traveling anywhere in 2020 and 2021 was ridiculously expensive, difficult, time consuming and headache inducing. Sadly 2022 is even worse. Not only do the ubiquitous problems of arbitrary government travel restrictions still exist in most parts of the world... but inflation have been wreaking havoc on anything travel related which have resulted in a doubling and sometimes even trippling in prices on airfares and hotels.

Having not been to Mexico for exactly two years, I was anxious to see if that was also the case here. Mexico was far from a budget place when I last visited, but it was still a lot freer in 2020 than many other countries as far as traveling to the country was concerned.

With the famous Day of the Dead fast approaching I decided to pay Mexico a visit. I took trains, buses and taxis for several days before I found myself in a country with a direct flight to Mexico City.

Whilst at Heathrow in London waiting for my flight with Aero Mexico I started looking at hotels. I was shocked!!!

Hotels that are normally US$ 20 a night were now going for $2-400! The upscale hotels that normally go for $200 were $1200!!!

I decided to board my flight and book something upon arrival. After an 11 hour flight to Mexico City I sat down at 5AM in an airport restaurant to see if prices had improved. They had not!

It was time for plan B, choose another city to go to. After browsing around in Google Maps my choice fell on Oaxaca. Many people all over Mexico on my previous visits told me to travel to Oaxaca for a truly authentic Mexico experience.

Plus I am always interested in visiting new cities I have never been before. Once the choice was made I went to SkyScanner to see if there were any direct flights from Mexico City to Oaxaca. There were but the cheapest was US $350 one way! That's an outrage!!!

I asked the waitress in the restaurant and she said Oaxaca. was reachable in a day by bus. So off I went to find a bus to Oaxaca ASAP....

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