Beach Bumming in Puerto Escondido - PERMACATION IN LATIN ...
Beach Bumming in Puerto Escondido. Enjoying beach life and the massive waves known as the "Mexican Pipeline". 06.02.2012 - 16.02.2012 sunny 30 °C ...
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Beach Bumming in Puerto Escondido

ENJOYING BEACH LIFE AND THE MASSIVE WAVES KNOWN AS THE "MEXICAN PIPELINE"

06.02.2012 - 16.02.2012  30 °C

Hola Amigos,

Were slowly moving around Mexico and absolutely loving it! Every day has been filled with lots of sunshine and really great food! After spending a few days in Merida, we went to this really interesting town called San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas. It was a beautiful town and although we only spent 2 days there we really enjoyed it. We learnt quite a bit about its history and were very interested to learn that this is the home of Zapatista movement, which, was founded there and went public on January 1 in 1994 (the day NAFTA went into effect). It is a movement based on support for indigenous people as well as being advocates for women's rights. They have been in a declared (mostly non violent) war against the Mexican state in attempts to call the worlds attention to their movement to protest the signing of NAFTA, which the Zapatistas believed would increase the gap between rich and poor people in Chiapas and Mexico as a whole. They support indigenous people and their right to maintain control over their local resources, especially their land. They also released a charter of Women's rights, which coming from Canada, we found it hard to believe that this day in age something so obvious (like Women deserve a right to an education, the right to choose who and if they marry, how many kids they have etc) would need to be written out and fought for, however it is obviously still needed and the Zapatistas have been fighting for it since then. They have also gained a lot of support from various NGO's worldwide, as well as entering pop culture thanks in part to the support it's received from bands such as Rage Against the Machine, Dead Prez, Anti-Flag, Manu Chao and more. Very Interesting!
To read more about the Zapatista movement click here

A beautiful little girl (named Erika) selling magnets

From San Cristobal we took yet another overnight bus to Puerto Escondido, a beautiful beach town with some of the biggest waves we've ever seen! It is known as the Mexican Pipeline and after seeing the sheer size and force of the waves it's not hard to see why. We have been here for about 5 days and enjoying every minute of it! We have an amazing private room with a balcony and a view of the ocean... all for $12 each a night!! Not bad!!!

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We have also been on a bit of a food tour during our time here in Mexico. So much street food, so many mouth watering tacos, so little time!!

We are really enjoying the heat, the ocean and the relaxing pace here so we think we will stay for another 5 days or so. Tough Life, we know!

well, that's it for now... were off to make the most of this perfect beach day!

VIVA MEXICO

This is the life!