Ever dreamt of waking up with the cry of the rooster, listening to the birds chirping outside of your window and having the rays of the sun sneaking stealthily through your curtains to caress your sleepy eyes with the first notion of day?
Well, to tell the truth, roosters can become mighty annoying if they cry anytime they want, and one always has his clock definitely set wrong (Murphy's Law of Roosters), and countryside scent can sometimes also mean countryside stink, but in general, the aforementioned is the atmosphere you will be able to find in the Posada Nopala: Tranquility in simple, rural surroundings, in a warm, comfortable climate in the mountains of the Western Sierra Madre in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
 

The Posada consists of two one-storey houses which are built hacienda-style, each of which has ample porches

with hammocks and rocking chairs. Just right behind the second, newer building begins our big orchard, from which we pick fresh oranges, bananas, lettuce, tomatoes, pineapple and, to cut things short, a whole lot of other fruits and vegetables, some of which soon find their way into one of the delicious meals prepared by our cook and served in the beautiful dining room.

There are a lot of things you can do around here, all invoking more or less a certain amount of kilometers walking each day, in fresh air

 and along clear rivers, climbing hills with different degrees of difficulty (maybe one day we will introduce a rating system, like that of the colored flags on the downhill slopes) and steepness. The prevalent means of traffic around here still has four legs and long ears, but we have a car at your disposition in which you can comfortably travel the longer distances to cities such as Puerto Escondido, which is 70 kilometers down the hills.
Also the archeological aspect of Nopala requires some walking. The Chatino culture has its cultural centre in this very region, but since it is still a culture rather unnoticed by the cultural mainstream, the tour buses still go to Monte Alban instead of stopping in Nopala, and the ruins are still very much under a dense blanket of vegetation and in no particular hurry to wake from their eons-long sleep for the benefit of the culture-consumption of the 21st century. What you can see of those archeological findings, is partly exhibited in the Palacio Municipal and includes steles which show a remarkable craftsmanship.

This leaves us to mention our rooms, all done nicely colonial-style and we invite you to come and visit Nopala, either directly, or from the Tabachin del Puerto, or through tours from Puerto Escondido . And we have been starting to train that stray rooster and think about resetting his clock in order to get closer to that idea of paradise. Maybe one day, you will have a nice chicken for dinner in the Posada Nopala, and after that meal go to sleep and wake up without anybody crowing bloody murder 75 minutes before sunrise, who knows?