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Monday, April 9, 2012
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San Agustinillo
San Agustinillo
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A number of lodgings sprinkle the San Agustinillobeachfront and view hillside above the road. Here, you can enjoy it all: Mexican beach village ambience, stores and small restaurants nearby, and hammock-hung verandas with gorgeous views of the foaming San Agustinillo surf and hundreds of yards of golden sand to wander upon.
$25–50
One of the most popular options, where you can walk out your door right onto the sand, is Mexico Lindo(fafinyleila@latinmail.com, no phone, $50 d) hotel and restaurant. Italian-born owner-manager Fausto offers five spacious individually decoratedcabañas in two stories, with soft beds and private shower-baths. Amenities include fans and Fausto’s good (but sometimes noisy) restaurant next door.
Nearby, removed two long blocks along a signed uphill driveway, find Casazul (tel. 958/587-4627,casazulplus@hotmail.com,www.casazulposada.com, $35–55), the lovely life-project of friendly owner Yolanda Quintana. Her hillside-perched stucco-and-tile, art-decorated complex offers four guest lodgings. They include two deluxe kitchenette studio apartments (“casitas”), each with two double beds and private baths, sharing a hammock-hung gorgeous-view-veranda, for $55 d; one rustic palm-thatched bungalow-in-the-round casita with a queen-sized bed, small refrigerator, and private bath for $35 d; and one “relaxation-room” casita, with small sauna, two double beds and private view veranda for $35 d. Extras include breakfast service at additional cost, mosquito nets, and a small but lovely blue lap pool.
Over $50
If, however, you prefer the beach, consider rustic-chic Posada La Termita(www.posadalatermita.com, $75 d) back downhill, right on the dazzlingSan Agustinillo beachfront. Italian-born owner Isabel Bresci offers four deluxe cabañas, with choice of one king-sized, two double, or two single beds, with private hot-water shower-bath, fan, and mosquito net. Reservations can be made through the website.
Casa Pan de Miel (about a third of a mile west of San Agustinillo village, tel. 958/589-5844, casapandemiel@yahoo.com.mx,www.casapandemiel.com, $95 d, $130 q), the lifelong dream-come-true of French-born co-owner Anne Gillete, perches on its airy hilltop above the blue Pacific. Only superlatives can describe the architecturally designed amenities: spacious veranda breakfast restaurant, a blue designer pool, soft couches and chairs for sitting inside, lounge chairs and umbrellas by the pool, and panoramic ocean views east, toward San Agustinillo; south, out to sea; and west toward Mazunte’s gracefully curving strand. Guests enjoy four spacious, comfortable, and artfully decorated deluxe rooms, with private view porches, hot water bathrooms, fans, a/c, and credit cards accepted, but no children under 12, please.
Innovative Posada Rancho Cerro Largo(ranchocerrolargomx@yahoo.com.mx, $80 s, $95 d), half a mile farther west, is the creation of builder Mario Corella, descendant of a longtime Hermosillo, Sonora, hotel family. After knocking around in the hospitality trade for several years, Mario decided to create his own version of utopia. Mario says that he wanted to “be in contact with nature and live among the community with as little impact as possible.” He’s done it, with a reception-restaurant and six rustically charming tile-floored, wood-and-adobe cabañas,furnished with hand-loomed bedspreads and opening to hammock-hung ocean-view verandas.
The entire complex nestles in a summer-green and lovely hillside deciduous forest, linked by a path that meanders, between panoramic ocean viewpoints, to a gorgeously isolated, wave-washed sandy beach below. Rates include dinner and breakfast. Email for reservations (necessary in winter, highly recommended anytime).
© Bruce Whipperman from Moon Oaxaca, 5th edition
Introducing San Agustinillo
Introducing San Agustinillo
The tiny village of San Agustinillo is centered on a small, curved bay, 4km west of Zipolite by road. The waves here are perfect for body-boarding and often good for body-surfing. The swimming is very good as well, but keep away from the rocks. San Agustinillo has generally higher standards of sanitation than its neighbors Zipolite and Mazunte, and its undeniable charms attract an eclectic bunch of fans, including travelers who are seekinh a less ‘sceney’ scene than in the neighboring villages. To walk from Zipolite to San Agustinillo, follow footpaths across the headland behind Shambhala at the west end of Zipolite, then continues along the straight and nearly empty Playa Aragón to San Agustinillo.
Until killing sea turtles was banned in Mexico in 1990, San Agustinillo was the site of a slaughterhouse where some 50, 000 turtles were killed per year for their meat and shells. Tourism has grown up since then to provide an altogether different local income source.
Hotel Malex provides internet access for M$15 per hour from 8:30am to 9pm Monday to Saturday and from 9am to 8pm on Sunday. Un Secreto will do your laundry (M$15 per kg, from 8am to 5pm Monday to Saturday).
Coco Loco Surf Club (www.cocolocosurfclub.com), based at México Lindo, rents surfboards for M$50 per hour or M$150 to M$200 per day, and boogie boards or snorkel gear for M$30 per hour. It also offers surfing classes with qualified French instructor David Chouard (two-hour private class for one/two people M$350/500; two-hour group class per person M$200) and three-beach ‘discovery trips’ combining snorkeling, body boarding and a visit to La Ventanilla for M$280 per person (minimum four people).
Local fishermen will take up to three people out sportfishing for around M$400 per hour, or marine life–spotting to look for turtles, dolphins, manta rays and (between November and April) whales, for around M$150 per person (minimum four people) – ask at your accommodation.
Last updated: Mar 2, 2009
Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mexico/oaxaca-state/san-agustinillo#ixzz1rblCMHm4
Activities in Santa Cruz this Semana Santa....
Activities in Santa Cruz this Semana Santa....
A busy time in Huatulco with visitors flocking from all over the country and beyond. The Casa de la Cultura has prepared a variety of events for this holiday weekend. The open air theater is located in Santa Cruz across from Ocean Park. All events are FREE.