The announcements los anuncios

Hello everyone, we are noticing that some of the announcements are being posted in the blog. We have designated another place to do so which is the first link ate the right of the blog on the sidebar named Announcements, there you can ask for roomates, selling/buying stuff, personal messages and so on. We encourage you to post your announcements there.

Hola a todos, estamos viendo que algunos anuncios se están publicando dentro del blog y no en el área designada para ello que se encuentra en la barra derecha lateral o sidebar que dice announcements, ahi puedes publicar los anuncios que quieras como la búsqueda de compañeros de cuarto, venta y compra de cosas, mensajes personales y así por el estilo. Te invitamos que pongas tus anuncios ahí.

Travel Information

We are aware that Huatulco might be a tricky place to travel from other countries... if you look up in Expedia or other travel assistance webpages, you'll probably end with very few (and expensive) flights from Aeromexico, the largest carrier that services the destination.

There are other local low-cost airlines that come to Huatulco, but can be hard to find because they usually don't have agreements with the big international carriers.

We made arrangements for a travel agency to help you with your travel in case you need it, including assistance with flight reservations, ground transportation from the airport to the hotel, visits and field trips to exciting sites in the Huatulco area and, for the adventurous that want to spend more time in the beautiful Oaxaca state, tours to other destinations like Oaxaca city. You can contact our friends from Fusion Travel DMC at http://fusiontraveldmc.com/simposio/ 


If you're OK and don't feel like needing the help from a travel agent, you might try to book your international flight to Mexico City and look for the following local airline options:

• Magnicharters    http://www.magnicharters.com.mx 
• Interjet               http://www.interjet.com.mx
• Viva Aerobus    http://vivaaerobus.com
• Aeromar           http://www.aeromar.com.mx

Continental and Alaskan Airlines had some flights to Huatulco from some Pacific cities in USA, worth giving it a look also...


You can also travel to Oaxaca city and find a flight in Aerotucan, a small local airline that uses Cessna planes. Great for the ones that want to spend some time visiting the archaeological sites near the capital.


If you want to travel by land, there are several buses that provide service to Huatulco from both Oaxaca and Mexico City, but it's a long ride: about 8 hours from Oaxaca and 14 hours from Mexico City. If still interested, try ADO (http://www.adogl.com.mx). 

AUCTION!

The Auction is one of the most expected moments in every year's Symposium. It is an important activity because it raises money for the Student Travel Grant Fund, which has allowed many colleagues from around the world to travel to the symposium to share their knowledge and experience about sea turtles. Both Live and Silent, the Auction draws in a lot of people looking for finding that nice or crazy turtle item to bring home, contribute to the Society and of course have a lot of fun.

We'd like to remind everybody to start collecting their sea turtle auction items to bring to Huatulco, whether they are handscrafts, t-shirts, sea turtle memorabilia, alcohol or a special talent, everything is welcome and everything could reach a nice price during bidding!

For this year, we would like to have less plastic and more organics... more handscrafts and less industrial (and of course, more alcohol!)... But just about any fun sea turtle stuff will do... Huatulco will be the perfect background for a fantastic Auction!

Information and news

If you want to post a message about looking for a roommate, telling a joke, looking for collaborators on projects or anything symposium related, you can do it either going into this site or sending an e-mail to it.  or click on the side bar where you read Announcements. Happy posting!! 

Hello World!!

I know you know how the sea turtles are born, so is this blog about the symposium to take place in México, and it is not only for this reason we exist, we do exist because along with symposium information we'd love to share information we gather on the web as well as some social media resources for your information. Hope you contribute and comment on the information we offer here and come back to visit us often.