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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, December 27, 2022

Dan Ballenger · 42m · Hi folks. Found some pics from Jan '85 from one of my Zip trips.

 42m 
Hi folks. Found some pics from Jan '85 from one of my Zip trips. In '85 it was pretty small. No paved roads, about 20 palapas on the beach, no toilets or running water but there was limited electricity. The road from Prt Angel was just a rutted dirt track.
I always stayed at Lulu's palapa and I had a photo of her but it somehow didn't survive all these years. It cost $0.75 a night if you rented a hammock or $0.25 if you had your own. Lulu made breakfast (pancakes and banana topping) and lunch (vegetables and whatever fish was caught) over an open fire. You could also have a skinny chicken slaughtered for about $1.50 but you had to pluck the feathers yourself. There's a picture here of the baker lady who made bread and fruit turnovers in a clay oven. Cheap and good!
The wild horses came to the beach every morning and evening. Wonder if they're still there? In the other picture you can see one of the town pigs hanging around the palapa looking for crumbs.
Beverages were kept in a cooler-box and paid on the honor system. Soft drinks were $0.35 and beers were $0.25 and we just kept track in a binder and Lulu would collect payment every three days. Really rough Mexican brown weed was about $5 an ounce. Sometimes we'd get the kids to climb trees and bring us coconuts and we'd make a concoction in a bucket called Coco-Loco with raw rum, coconut milk, and lemon juice.
Anyway, if Lulu is still around someone tell her we said hello.





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