A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Monday, November 7, 2011

Zipolite - CanWay After Puerto Escondido we traveled to Zipolite, a small beach town only a couple of hours drive away. Because it is such a small town, there are no buses that go ... canway.travellerspoint.com/9/

Zipolite

18.10.2011 - 22.10.2011

30 °C

¡Hola! The last couple of weeks have been very busy for us (at least when you're used to laying on the beach drinking beer and the occasional Margarita...), as we have been trying to learn Spanish and cover multiple cities simultaneously. Therefore we have been way too lazy to deal with the blog.

After Puerto Escondido we traveled to Zipolite, a small beach town only a couple of hours drive away. Because it is such a small town, there are no buses that go there. You can get an air conditioned shuttle, but because we're cheap we decided to do it the hard way, getting a bus to Pochutla and catching a ride with a camioneta from there. Camioneta is fancy for "sitting in the back of a truck".

The first bus we got on is mostly used by locals, and doesn't stop unless you tell the driver to do so when you want to get off. This can cause problems when you don't know where you want to get off, and especially if you fall asleep. We got off the bus 20 minutes later than planned and felt pretty lost. Fortunately there were some very helpful children around who helped us find a camioneta, and we were back on track again.

Jason seeking help from Lonely Planet

Are you going to Zipolite?

In a camioneta, finally heading for Zipolite

The Power Stance

When we eventually got to Zipolite we ended up staying a few days longer than planned. There is not much to do here but laze in the sun, drink beer and eat. All of which we have become fairly good at.

Much needed Tequila Sunrise upon arrival

The beach

Its a hard life...

Zipolite sunset

Zipolite has a bit of reputation of being a nude beach. Turns out this is not true, for the most part. The West end of the beach had a few nudists strolling around/ lounging around in awkward positions on sun beds. Jason decided this was a little much for, in his own words, "a small town Canadian dude" so most of the time we kept to the center or east side of the beach. This wasn't very hard considering that our hotel was right on the beach.

The view from our balcony

The balcony

Theres really not much more to say about Zipolite. It is a very relaxed place with a beautiful beach were you could easily end up staying a week longer than you planned. After Zipolite we headed for Guatamala, planning to go all the way to Lago Atitlan in the Guatamalan highlands without doing any stops. Pictures from Guatemala will be up soon