Gay Travel: Zipolite, Mexico - A Town Lost in Time

Gay Travel: Zipolite, Mexico - A Town Lost in Time

Looking for a piece of the "real" Mexico? Check out Zipolite, in Oaxaca on the Pacific Ocean. Edge Boston has the details: A sleepy town with one main street and no ATMs, Zipolite (pronounced ZEE-poe-LEE-tay) is one of many tiny coastal pueblos that dot the Pacific in Mexico's Southern state of Oaxaca. Stretching from Puerto Escondido to Huatulco, the region is sometimes called the Oaxaca Riviera. The hippie crowd discovered Zipolite in the 1960s and since then it has slowly evolved into an offbeat tourist spot popular with a certain type of visitor. Its pristine beach stretches two kilometers (1.2 miles) between two high cliffs at either end, and the crowd is fairly evenly split between middle-class Mexicans and free-wheeling liberals from across the globe. Old hippies, young adventure-seekers, and locals all mingle with a flower-child type harmony. Sounds like paradise. Do cell phones work there?

Click Here to Return to the Gayapolis News SectionPublished on:  March 25, 2013