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

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Oaxaca – Puerto Escondido BY TAIPANSPIRIT – NOVEMBER 24, 2012

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Oaxaca – Puerto Escondido

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TAIPANSPIRIT

– NOVEMBER 24, 2012POSTED IN: HIGHLIGHTS, MEXICO

Having enough of cold nights and mountainous areas, a 7 hours mini bus will drive me to the Pacific Coast to a small town named PUERTO ESCONDIDO.

The place is well known for surfers, as between march and august, the “mexican pipeline” can have waves up to 12 meters high, only for pros of course.

The area is a chill out area with the paradise alike palm tree roof tops, nice sandy beach, and tropical weather.

The area has different beaches and each of them has a different purpose :

- Playa Zicatela : that’s the large long beach where the waves can be surfed only by professionals as the water currents are pretty dangerous as well. The area is full of small bars with roofs made of coconut tree leafes and restaurants, that’s also where the nightlife happens.

- Playa principal : the one in the middle of the town is where the fishermen brings the fish early in the morning to be sold on site directly and at the local market. Delicious ones!

- Playa Manzanillo, is a little paradise on it’s own, a few places to chill in the shadow, you can always have a nice fresh coconut

And yes i agree it was my first day at the beach, so… there is work to do on the suntan

- Playa Carizalillo is where you can learn how to surf, as the waves do not reach more than 2 meters high so it’s perfect to start.

One of the main attraction of the place is also to take a boat for a couple of hours and look for Dolfins, turtles and whales. Luckily we saw a lot of dolfins until seeing a group of almost 30 of them, a few turtles one of which we actually were able to grap at shore, quite big! and 2 whales that actually wanted to play with us, that almost got slightly dangerous.