Text and photos by Mary L. Peachin
November/December, 2011
Vol. 16. No. 2
¿Quiere chapolines? Say what? Before hopping into a unique and favorable Oaxacan culinary adventure, let me tell you about the salty, crunchy tasty experience of Huatúlco grasshoppers.
Edged by the foothills of the Sierra Madre, Huatúlco offers a stunning twenty mile Pacific Ocean landscape. Located between the Coyula and Copalita rivers in Mexico’s southwestern state of Oaxaca, the city spans nine bays and thirty six beaches. Four of these bays are uninhabited nature reserves.
Santa Cruz, Huatúlco’s principal bay, is best known as a port of call for cruise ships. Tangolunda’s, a Zapotec translation meaning “pretty woman” is also home to the majority of Huatúlco’s luxury hotels.