Huatulco Beaches A Break Down Of All The Beaches In The Area Huatulco is notorious for its nine bays and 36 beaches. This post will give you details on each of the nine bays and a few notable beaches. Helping you make an educated decision on which bays and beaches you want to add to your ‘must-see’ list for your time in Huatulco.

Huatulco Beaches

A Break Down Of All The Beaches In The Area

Huatulco is notorious for its nine bays and 36 beaches. This post will give you details on each of the nine bays and a few notable beaches. Helping you make an educated decision on which bays and beaches you want to add to your ‘must-see’ list for your time in Huatulco.

San Augustin

This is a highly developed beach with a ton of beachfront restaurants and shops. Great if you want to combine a beach day with dinner out.

Chachacual and La India

These two beaches are located in the same bay and offer a great place to snorkel thanks to the surrounding reefs.

Cacaluta

This is an amazing beach, it’s huge and currently has no development on it.This beach was made famous by the award winning movie “Y Tu Mama Tambien”. Truly breath taking.

Maguey Bay

Located off Santa Cruz Bay this beach is rather busy. One of the nicer features here is that the water slopes in gradually where as many other beaches have drop-offs. Maguey Bay is a great place for families to swim and snorkel before grabbing a bite to eat at Ay Caray.

Organo

This beach is truly remote and can only be accessed by water – whether by boat or jet ski. Know mainly for the “faces in the rocks” which is a natural phenomenon where the protruding rocks formed to look like faces.

Santa Cruz

This nice beach is rather busy, especially during cruising season as there is a cruise ship port here. Santa Cruz offers a beach club – Club de Playa Santa Cruz – as well as many restaurants and entertainment.

Chahue

Home to two public beach clubs – Castillo and Club Playa de Chahue – this busy beach offers a yacht club and spa. Perfect place to bring kids as the beach clubs offer a variety of kids’ activities.

Tangolunda Bay

This is where the majority of the resorts in the area are located, meaning you can’t access the beach through their property unless you purchase a day-pass. If you want to visit this bay you must use the public entrance located off the main road. The beach itself is considered public so long as you are on the sand. There is a beach club – Camino Real – in Tangolunda Bay for you to use if you choose.

Conejos

Punta Arena

This is the beach where the luxe resort Secrets is being built. Offering a gorgeous, expansive beach, with aggressive surf not suitable for children or weak swimmers.

Tejoncito

Where the time share Celeste is being built. This is one of the nicest beaches in the entire area. Because it’s a protected cove, Tejoncito offers calm waters and a remote feel.

Playa Conejos

This is an expansive beach that has yet to have any development. This beach is not accessible by car and requires a short walk along a dirt path in order to get there.

La Bocana

This is definitely a surf beach, in fact it’s often where locals come to ride some waves. With everything from mud baths to massages, this beach has it all – acting as the end location for both La Copalita River as well as the rafting tour. If you choose to come to this beach, be sure to check out Finca de Vaqueros as well as the Artisan market.

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BREAKFAST AT PAN DE MIEL IN MAZUNTE.

Breakfast at Pan de Miel in Mazunte, Mexico, May 20, 2012. When the government banned turtle hunting in Costa Chica in 1990, the coast became a test case for a shift to eco-friendly industry, and a new draw for tourists. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)

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A Paradise called San Agustinillo

A Paradise called San Agustinillo

This trip took place in 2012. I spent one week with my wife in one of my favorite areas of the world, the coast of Oaxaca. We spent a few days motorbiking around the beaches of Huatulco. Then, we went up the coast to Mazunte. During our stay there we walked to a beautiful beach called San Agustinillo. There, I had one of the most amazing ceviches I had ever tried.

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PUerto Escondido film trip

Posted on July 26, 2012 by admin

Just got back from a film trip with Alex Gray to Puerto Esdcondido yesterday. It was a 5 day trip that was my first big wave adventure and film trip with Mr. Turkeymelt. We got some big surf, drank some COCO Loco’s and ALex was a classic dude to hang with, kinda like a little kid in a candy store all the time. Huntington Beaches Timmy Reyes also met us down there and Alex got me to do a new Turkeymelt episode that should be out in a few weeks, Ill keep you posted photos soon to come as well. THis is a video from a previous trip down there for Alex, of course ours is gonna be way sicker!!

HEre is another pretty sick collage of crazy barrels as well.

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Wave of the Summer… At Puerto Escondido!

Wave of the Summer… At Puerto Escondido!

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DAVE MAILMAN

JULY 24, 2012

Although the title is a bit pretentious, you can’t blame Surfline and Nike for believing their own hype about the ‘Wave of the Summer’ competition.  While their contest of (almost) the same name, ‘Wave of the Winter’ included every break along the 7 Mile Miracle, a.k.a the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, the summertime version only includes waves ridden at Puerto Escondido in Mexico’s Oaxaca region.  No one will argue the fact that during the Northern Hemisphere winter, there is a 99% chance that the best waves in the world over the course of the season are breaking on the North Shore.  It is not the surfing world’s version of Mecca for nothing!

Filipe Cesarano pulling into his chance to win $15,000 at Playa Zicatela, a.k.a. the Mexican Pipeline! Frame grab: Wave of the Summer entry / Andres Petroni

However, even though Puerto’s number one spot, Playa Zicatela is nicknamed the Mexican Pipeline, the chances of it serving up the best wave in world this summer are not nearly as high as for the North Shore in winter.  Especially when taking into consideration that Tahiti, Fiji and the Mentawais are also firing on all cylinders in the same swell window.

Dave Wassel on his way to a beer break after another “wave of the summer” at Cloudbreak. Frame grab: Fiji Freight Trains / Volcom Stone YAE

Nonetheless, the bookmakers at Nike and Surfline decided to go with a spot that at least has a shot at taking the top spot at the finish line, rather than betting on a rank outsider, or shooting for a tri-fecta by opening up the contest to multiple locations. If not for the historic swell at Cloudbreak, it looks like their bet may have paid off.

Alex Gray was on hand for the historic Fiji swell, and has scored a few bombs this summer in Puerto Escondido too. Lucky man! Frame grab: Wave of the Summer entry / Andres Petroni

No matter what your take is, you can’t argue that there have been some amazing waves crashing down at the premiere break in Mainland Mexico this summer, and as a cherry on the cake, that a local Mexican surfer will most likely be the one following in the footsteps of Reef McIntosh and walking away with the $15,000 winner take all prize money!

On or about August 31, 2012 an esteemed judging panel of Peter Mel, Roger Ramirez, Ruben Pina, and Roberto Salinas will select the ultimate winning wave/surfer as well as the season’s Overall Performance Award based on the following criteria (“Judging Criteria”):
- Wave Size (25%);
- Degree of Difficulty of Maneuvers (25%);
- Style (25%); and
- Overall “Heaviness” Factor (25%).

May the best man (or woman) win! Amen!

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Magnitude 4.4 - OFFSHORE OAXACA, MEXICO 2012 July 27 02:23:33 UTC

Earthquake Details

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Magnitude	4.4
Date-Time	Friday, July 27, 2012 at 02:23:33 UTC Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 09:23:33 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	16.135°N, 98.050°W
Depth	26.6 km (16.5 miles)
Region	OFFSHORE OAXACA, MEXICO
Distances	19 km (11 miles) S of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico 71 km (44 miles) SSE of Ometepec, Mexico 110 km (68 miles) WNW of Puerto Escondido, Mexico 130 km (80 miles) SSW of Santa Maria Asuncion Tlaxiaco, Mexico
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 29 km (18.0 miles); depth +/- 9 km (5.6 miles)
Parameters	NST= 81, Nph= 85, Dmin=167 km, Rmss=1.12 sec, Gp=230°, M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source	Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usb000bh8w

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Puerto Escondido Puerto Escondido in a not overly friendly mood..but if you made one..you’d remember it for a long time..

JUL

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Travel Fail: Never Study Spanish with Surfers

Question: Why is it only my articles in the Exploration "Travel Fail" column so far?

Answer: Let's not ponder that too much...

Everyone has a travel tale in which, looking back, they’d have done things differently – and for me, deciding that the small town of Puerto Escondido, on the stunning Oaxaca Mexican coastline, would be the ideal place to take a week of Spanish classes was just such a moment. Puerto Escondido: Hidden Port. Sandy beaches, the crashing Pacific waves… peace and quiet, surely? A tranquil paradise, just perfect for learning some sexy Spanish conjugations before heading southwards down the gringo trail that crawls up and down the South American continent. What could possibly go wrong?

In retrospect, the fact that Puerto Escondido was referred to, albeit briefly, in The Lonely Planet as “a surfers’ paradise” was probably the first warning of what was to come. Naturally, I took no notice. It wasn’t until checking onto my minisculeAeromexico flight – along with a planeload full of sunkissed, muscle-bound, dreadlock-sporting surfers, plus boards – that it began to hit me that this may not have been my wisest choice. For, as all hardened backpackers know: where surfers go, drugs, booze and parties inevitably follow. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that, after several months living out of a backpack, men sporting dreadlocks had become infinitely more attractive to me…

After a brief flight- the journey was so short, and so turbulent, that when after only five minutes in the air we started plummeting to the ground I screamed, convinced we were crashing (when we were actually landing) – I found myself crammed into a collective along with seven surfers, plus boards. I had booked myself into a hostel which, on the website, looked like a pleasant, friendly sort of place. The fact that the seven surfers and I were all headed to the same destination, The Tower Bridge Hostel, was the second sign that it was time to abandon all hope of constructive language learning. The hostel was run by a British expat whose brain seems to have been melted by too much Mexican sun and the local tequila – a fact that soon became apparent when, just the day after my arrival, he disappeared without cause or explanation, leaving behind no instructions, no money, and a rather bewildered twenty-year-old American boy who, for lack of any other purpose, took charge of the running of the hostel. His interpretation of “running” consisted of letting us help ourselves to beer at will, and leading us to the finest bars, illegal substances and prostitutes you might find yourself in need of.

What ensued was basically the Mexican equivalent of a teenage house party gone awry in the parents’ absence: absolute carnage. Nothing was paid for. Alcohol flowed freely, and plentifully. The sun shone all day, and the nights were long and eventful. Life was good at Puerto Escondido’s number one party hostel.

That is, unless you’d signed up for six hours of Spanish classes every day.

My school was absolute paradise every way – lessons were affordable, and classes were conducted by friendly and fun local teachers outside in the sunshine, overlooking the beach below and surrounded by tropical flowers, hammocks and passing iguanas. It was here that I learnt to my sadness that no one Spanish-speaking would ever actually say “Hasta la vista, baby”. But sadly, due to the festivities back at Party Hostel 101, it was also here that I succeeded in falling asleepduring a one-on-one class, and learnt the slang for “I’m hungover”, which roughly translates as “I’m raw”- “estoy cruda”. And it was here that, when asked by the well-meaning teacher if I’d sampled the local tequila, I barely stopped myself from throwing up at the memories of the beach the night before, when double tequila shots had made me literally chunder everywhah! (Yes, this was during my gap yah). The Spanish for “throw up” is “vomitar”, by the way.

Over the week, although my Spanish was slowly progressing, life at the hostel was deteriorating rapidly. The swimming pool was now the unofficial WC, and unusable. The cleaner, who hadn’t been paid, was gone, and the kitchen took on an “abandon hope all ye who enter” quality. The surfers spent their days lying sprawled across the various threadbare sofas, surfboards abandoned, pumped full of muscle relaxants (which are legal and available over the counter in Mexico) and thus rendered incapable of moving, whilst I crawled my way to class on no sleep. Dorm rooms began to acquire an orgiastic quality (not a conducive environment for doing your homework) and I subsisted on sunshine, beer and a lone pineapple. It was gringo culture at its lowest.

Of course, all good things come to an end, and eventually so did my time in Puerto Escondido. Thirty hours of intensive one-on-one classes had been of some use – seeing as I’d arrived on the continent without a word of Spanish I felt entitled to take pride in even the smallest achievement – and on my final day there, the hostel owner made his unobtrusive return. When I asked him where he’d been, he explained “I just had to get away from it all for just a few days. Just get out of here, down the coast. Just me and the dog.”

I paused. “Do you mean… this dog?”

“Yeah,” he replied, blindly waving in the direction of the long-suffering hostel labrador.

“You mean this dog that’s been here with us all week?”

“Oh yeah… not the dog then.”

That was all the explanation we ever got. But in a way I understand what that crazy man was saying about having to get away from Puerto Escondido for a bit. The place looks like paradise but it sucks you in, like a backpacker black hole. Ultimately, I left on that rickety plane with no significant language abilities, but one hell of an important lesson: never, never sign up for Spanish classes in a surfer party beach town. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.

Warning: Hammocks are conducive to hangovers, but not to language learning.

Posted 3 weeks ago by Leah Eades

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