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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, April 19, 2022

We're back this Thursday with pure cream! Back at the controls our resident Frankov as headliner and in the warm up #Colombe from France. See you at the beat venue! #dancewithme 🔥⚡️👊

Volvemos este jueves con pura crema! De nuevo en los controles nuestro residente Frankov como headliner y en el warm up #Colombe desde Francia. Nos vemos en el recinto del beat! #dancewithme 🔥⚡️👊



Exquisite afternoon at #PlayadelAmor, #Zipolite.

Exquisita tarde en #PlayadelAmor#Zipolite.



🌿 "What a Vain!" It's a song written by Isabel III and performed on this occasion by the Singers of the Oaxacan Coast 💃🏽🪘 But if you live in Mazunte this song belongs to everyone ✨ We have four more songs from this performance by @cantorasdelacosta at Posada del Arquitecto Terraza del Arquitecto on our YouTube Official MazunTV, link in Profile! 📲 @mazuntv https://youtu.be/6ZtfrPZ3R30

🌿"Qué Vaina!" Es una canción escrita por Isabel III e interpretada en esta ocasión por las Cantoras de la Costa Oaxaqueña 💃🏽🪘 Pero si vives en Mazunte esta canción es de todos ✨
Tenemos cuatro canciones más de esta actuación de @cantorasdelacosta en Posada del Arquitecto Terraza del Arquitecto en nuestro youtube MazunTV Oficial, link en el Perfil! 📲 @mazuntv
#oaxaca #coro #voces #mazunte #mexico #livemusic #ocean #pacific #art #sing

°At the end of the Cobblestone we will be selling: - Almond & Hazelnut Tarts 🌰 - Salads with delicious dressings nuts and proteins to choose from 🥗🍜 - Masala Chaï (Cold) 🥛🧊 And a bit of Art: - Handmade clothes @la.chapeliere - Traveling Photographs The Witch's Cyclops - Stickers And more...

°Al final del Adoquín estaremos vendiendo:
- Tartas de Almendras & Avellanas 🌰
- Ensaladas con aderezos riquísimos
nueces y proteínas a elegir 🥗🍜
- Masala Chaï ( Frío ) 🥛🧊
°Y un poco de Arte:
- Ropa hecha a mano @la.chapeliere
- Fotografías Viajeras El Cyclope de La Bruja
- Stickers
Y más...



Neither the military nor price increases keep visitors away from Huatulco; families and young people crowd the destination After two years locked up by the pandemic, tourists bet on this beach destination; the hope is to reach the full house

Ni militares ni aumento de precios alejan a visitantes de Huatulco; familias y jóvenes ...
Comenzó por Zipolite y Mazunte y terminó en las playas de Huatulco. Eligió cerrar su viaje con la visita a varias playas no tan saturadas de ...

Neither the military nor price increases keep visitors away from Huatulco; families and young people crowd the destination

After two years locked up by the pandemic, tourists bet on this beach destination; the hope is to reach the full house

Huatulco .- Little by little , La Crucecita beach begins to occupy itself. Children and adults run for shelter, some in the sea, others under umbrellas. The 38 degrees are not an obstacle for soldiers to monitor the area and arouse the admiration of the children who take pictures with them.

 

 

The first row of umbrellas, tables and patches of people facing the sea correspond to the families that come from Mexico City . They are the ones who prefer only to rent umbrellas from informal lenders who hunt them down from the street. They do it to save, because the restaurants that provide services on the beach force tourists to spend a minimum of 250 pesos per person to use the tables and umbrellas.

This same strategy is reproduced in La Distribución Bay , where tourists are also dissatisfied with the increase of between 20% and 30% in the prices of food or entertainment services such as bananas , snorkeling and boat tours .

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Photo: Edwin Hernandez

 

But despite this, families and visitors enjoy living together, since it has been two years since the pandemic prevented them from taking vacations by the sea and enjoying the sun.

José Sánchez Salcedo, for example, is a veterinarian and professor at the  Universidad Veracruzana who lives in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and who decided to spend his vacations in various tourist destinations on the Oaxacan coast . He started in Zipolite and Mazunte and ended up on the beaches of Huatulco . He chose to close his trip with a visit to several beaches not so saturated with families, although that is almost impossible in this season.

 

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José was one of the thousands of teachers who began teaching online , so he moved his residence from Mexico City to his native Veracruz.

This 32-year-old professor set foot in the sea more than a year ago, since his last visit was in December 2020, when the pandemic had given a truce and the beach destinations in Oaxaca were the most attractive for having few Covid cases .

 

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Photo: Edwin Hernandez

 After a second and third wave of infections , José Sánchez Salcedo decided not to go out again, until this Easter .

“After months locked up in my house giving online classes, I live under stress, so I left at the first opportunity. I also took a risk because I already have three vaccines and the infections have decreased. I opted for the beaches because they are open spaces, which reduces the chances of contagion,” says the young man sitting on Chahué beach , one of the quiet spaces intended for the young and adventurous population.

 

 

The expected recovery

 

La Crucecita, the main bay of Santa María Huatulco , has not yet reached the desired 100% occupancy that the Huatulco Hotel Association projects for the three highest days of Holy Week.

 Despite the fact that it seems full, established service providers consider that the destination barely reaches 80% of national family tourism , an acceptable percentage after two years in which it fell to 20%, forcing them to close for four months in 2020.

 

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Photo: Edwin Hernandez

 

Gustavo Ficachi , the president of the Huatulco Hotel Association, is positive in reporting that at Easter they will close with an occupancy of 92%, in addition to an economic spill of 327 million pesos , although it is not what the beach destination obtained most important in Oaxaca before the 2020 earthquake and the pandemic.

Despite this, in the last year of gradual recovery, an occupancy rate of up to 40% was reached during the low season: “A new phenomenon in Huatulco is the constant visit throughout the year. In other words, there has been a 40% constant presence of national and foreign tourists, before we only had high seasons: Easter, summer vacations and the end of the year, now we have tourists throughout the year, which helps us not to close or cut staff. It is a slow recovery, not as we would like, but permanent and that gives us hope”, explains the hotel manager.

 

 

The dynamics of the type of tourism after the pandemic remained familiar, although 60% is national and 40% international. What decreased was the presence of Canadians, due to the sanitary restrictions imposed by their country. Despite this, it is expected that at the end of the year the presence of this important vacation group will be reactivated, which remains for several months on the coastal strip .

Regarding the lessons that the pandemic left them, Ficachi points out that even when the contingency caught them off guard, a permanent health protocol was established that included the vaccination of all restaurant and hotel staff; maintain hygiene habits for visitors and service providers, take care of a healthy distance in public spaces, including the beach, as well as monitoring the situation.

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Photo: Edwin Hernandez