Huatulco, Zipolite/Escondido Questions Reddit Hey kooks, So I'm starting to plan my honeymoon, and am looking at Mexico, specifically Huatulco. My fiancee and have traveled a lot, and try to...

Huatulco, Zipolite/Escondido Questions Reddit Hey kooks, So I'm starting to plan my honeymoon, and am looking at Mexico, specifically Huatulco. My fiancee and have traveled a lot, and try to...

Huatulco, Zipolite/Escondido Questions (self.surfing)

submitted 19 hours ago by hargenshnargen

Hey kooks,

So I'm starting to plan my honeymoon, and am looking at Mexico, specifically Huatulco. My fiancee and have traveled a lot, and try to stay away from seriously touristy places, and this area of Oaxaca looks built up enough to have resorts/infrastructure but not the crazy swarms of folks on the Yucatan.

So, anyway, I was doing research and realized Puerto Escondido/Zipolite is just up the coast from here.

Anyone have any experiences in this area? My partner doesn't surf...I do, but am nowhere near good enough to handle real Escondido. I'm comfortable up to about 6-7 foot surf. Ideally I'd find a beach where we can hang/read, and pop in the water for a surf over the course of the day. BTW I surf Ventura normally, and we're coming from LAX. I'd need to rent a board, would I need a wetsuit?

Are there surf spots in Huatulco proper? Should we consider some other place around here? We're going in early November 2017.

Thanks for any advice, and yes, this is a honeymoon/surfing question, hope that's alright.

TL;DR - who has spent time in Huatulco/Escondido, and is there good surf around there in November?

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[–]coolballs 2 points 18 hours ago 

hey fellow kook,

I spent about a week in Puerto Escondido and had probably my best surfing day ever there. There was a huge swell that brought in 25+ foot waves. I sure as fuck didn't surf those but I got to watch some people do some crazy big wave surfing. Later I went out to the point break at Playa Carrazalillo that that was sending out these beautiful 6-7 glassy beauts. I ended up staying out there for 4 or 5 hours and got super sunburned but it was totally worth it. That beach is also in a really nice cove with cheap corona and food. Not a bad place to spend a week.

What's great about Puerto is that there are 3 great spots that have different size waves. So I stayed at La Punta (best spot to stay imo) where there's a good point break, but when the waves got too big I went to Carazalillo. There's also the beach break that gets the biggest waves, but I didn't actually get a chance to surf there.

Also, there's a really awesome mountain town in between Cuidad de Oaxaca and Puerto Escondido called San Jose Del Pacifica. I went there with a bunch of backpackers and did shrooms (pretty much all drugs are legal there). There's also a little ritual you can pay do there where they basically hot box (sauna, not pot) a room and chant and get weird. It's a good time for sure.

Also, the food in Oaxaca is really good. I think it'd be a good honeymoon spot. Southern Mexico is awesome.

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[–]yeahsurf 2 points 13 hours ago 

Might be a little late in the season for Huatulco area spots