I highly recommend this place on the beach... first-time attention, delicious drinks, a delicious flan and super good natural French potatoes.
Budget, Backpackers, Surfers, Beach Lovers, Naturalist, Hippie, Sun and Sand worshipers, Off the Beaten Path Paradise! Everyone is welcome at Zipolite!
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
I highly recommend this place on the beach... first-time attention, delicious drinks, a delicious flan and super good natural French potatoes.
Costeña dolls.I am very happy to tell you that very soon and for a limited time you will be able to find some designs from the two lines of BW (@bwdesign.mx and @blackwxman) in a mini mini pop-up shop we are going to have at the beach of love from Zipolite.Your favorite dresses, tops, bralettes, panties, swimsuits and various designs that are exclusively made for these days.Also, taking advantage of this visit, we will be taking your orders at no shipping cost and for personal delivery, so you can start ordering from now to tomorrow at 14:00.See you around, the exact location we'll give it to you via DM.
Please take good care of yourselves!
Sábadooooooooo 27, iniciando!
What's Happening in Mexico Right Now?
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Hi Mexico-loving friends,
I hope this email finds you well.
The weeks are passing quickly here in San Jose. A month has come and gone already and we felt like we were only just scratching the surface of this beautiful beach town, so we've decided to stay for another month.
The decision is also based on the fact that the Easter holidays are coming up here in Mexico and Semana Santa, or the holy week that comes before Easter Sunday, is traditionally the biggest travel week in the country. Many local governments are calling for shutdowns to avoid spikes in case numbers.
This year, Semana Santa will be from Monday the 29th of March until Easter Sunday which falls on April 4th. You can expect things to start getting busier on the previous weekend when many people are off from work, so there are definitely going to be some pre-emptive closures around the country starting on the 27th of March.
Baja California Sur has already announced that they will be heavily limiting the numbers at bigger beaches and some beaches will be completely closed for Semana Santa in Los Cabos, Loreto, and La Paz in order to stop tourists from visiting. I don't imagine this will impact resorts and the beachfront areas that they hold space on, but I think it will affect beaches like Playa Balandra in La Paz and perhaps smaller beaches like Chileno Beach in Cabo.
There is some conjecture that beach towns in Quintana Roo (the state where you find Cancun, Playa del Carmen, and Tulum) may follow in their footsteps and limit beach numbers and lower hotel capacities for this week. But that is still to be decided.
You can read about those closures in this article.
The state of Jalisco, home to Guadalajara, Chapala, and Puerto Vallarta, will also implement some restrictions for Semana Santa. Beaches will only be open from 5am-5pm, restaurants and bars must be closed by 11pm, and there will be more checkpoints on roads leading into the state. They are asking places to be more vigilant about checking temperatures and limiting capacity.
You can read about those precautions in this article.
Since the state moved from the "orange" to the "yellow" on the traffic light system last week, I haven't noticed a whole lot of changes.
Beaches are open until 6 pm every day. Buses are running as normal (we took one last week to go to this beach!). It is still required to wear a mask in any public space, in stores, and when entering restaurants and bars until you are seated at your table.
The state of Baja California Sur has its own traffic light system within the federal system. It is numbered - 1 is green, 2 is low yellow, 3 is high yellow, 4 is low orange, 5 is high orange, 6 is red.
Right now, we are in level 3, which means that although we are in yellow, we are still in "high alert" and most precautions are still being taken. However, as a tourist, you likely won't notice much difference. Tours are still able to operate, restaurants are open.
The biggest thing that you may contend with is that most bars don't allow you to come in just for a drink (although this rule is very vague and only seems to happen at the more upscale spots). This includes Baja Brewing, Nomada, and Dalton bars in San Jose del Cabo. In order to sit in and have a drink, at the moment, you also need to order at least one plate of food between two people.
A few more states changed colors this week. There are now three states in the "green" traffic light including Chiapas, Campeche, and Sonora. Nuevo Leon (home to Monterrey) and San Luis Potosi have both moved from the orange into the yellow. Read about all of the changes in this article.
Mexico City continues to see a decline in weekly cases but remains in the orange. Read all about the restrictions currently in place in Mexico City here.
For more updates about Mexico City, as always I recommend following Ubish Yaren on Instagram. He is doing regular weekly updates about the situation there both on his Instagram and on his YouTube channel.
For updates about what's going on in Oaxaca, Susan of Brooklyn Tropicali has been showing some great updates around the city. She has also begun doing a small amount of traveling around Oaxaca state and sharing her experiences about that on her Instagram.
For regular updates about life in Merida and around the Yucatan, check out Mexico Cassie.
As always, a great place to keep up to date with news about Mexico in English is Mexico News Daily.
In case you've missed them, these are the blog posts and videos that I've shared in the last two weeks.
As always, you can find me most often on Instagram with daily updates and photos, but I also post very regularly on Facebook if you prefer following along there.
If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to email me by simply hitting reply on this email.
Speak soon,
Laura