Mexico: Puerto Escondido
Our Spring Break ended in Puerto Escondido where we took a van from Oaxaca City at 5AM and arrived in Puerto Escondido sometime in the early afternoon. Pto. Escondido is located at the very southern part of Mexico on the Pacific Coast. It is famous for one of its beaches called Zicatela Beach which hosts major surfing competitions. But this city also has very beautiful, quiet beaches with gentle waves as well. We visited most of them, my favorites were Playa Bacocho and Playa Coral.
We stayed at a hostel called Tower Bridge Backpackers. We got a really nice room for really cheap. We had a kitchen, our own bathroom, bedroom and living room all to ourselves with a hammock and a swimming pool right outside.
Playa Carrizalillo…a bit crowded with lots of families and kids. Lots of surfing lessons here as well because of the more gentle waves compared to the crazy ones at Playa Zicatela.
Playa Bacocho…our favorite beach because it was very deserted so we felt like we had the whole beach to ourselves…very difficult to get here though. We had to walk for almost half an hour.
Playa Coral is connected to Playa Bacocho…very beautiful with gorgeous turquoise water and white sand. There was a deserted hotel right by the shore, we didn’t want to have to walk all the way back (which would have taken an hour at least) so we decided to hike up our way through the deserted area. It was very sketchy and creepy, we saw an iguana on our way up…fortunately we made it up ok and saved some time.
We spent our whole last day at the famous Playa Zicatela, eating lots of yummy Mexican food. I wanted to go skydiving so badly but couldn’t afford it at the time so I will safe that for next time (my dream is to skydive in Dubai overlooking the beautiful man-made Palm Islands). But overall, I absolutely loved Pto. Escondido. It has so much to offer with tons of different kinds of beaches and lots of great food and fun activities. We took a bus back from Pto. Escodido to Mexico City which took about 18 hours…longest bus ride I’ve ever experienced but actually didn’t feel that bad!
