Playa Zipolite. Welcome To The Beach Of The Dead!

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

Friday, January 24, 2014

Anyone else Scared by Jan. 21road block?

Totally_annoyed_now

Regina, Canada

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Anyone else Scared by Jan. 21road block

Jan 23, 2014, 2:33 PM

Have been home 2 days now and haven't seen anything about the road block!!! Am I the only one that was scared half to death???

ekim_01

Salmon Arm, Canada

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11. Re: Anyone else Scared by Jan.21road block

Jan 23, 2014, 4:09 PM

I have a feeling there is more to the lippfamilies encounter with a road block that would make them stay away from Mexico. And that is fine. If you can go by their travel map they haven't traveled extensivly so maybe a bit of culture shock as well?. Personally the charm of a "machette " is just another interesting site that you can see in almost every other winter/tourist destination.

Mike :)

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12. Re: Anyone else Scared by Jan.21road block

Jan 23, 2014, 4:22 PM

As someone who was on the edge of a riot in Oaxaca City a few years ago, let me share my thoughts. The teachers were protesting subsidies to private schools & President Calderon had come to Oaxaca on an unrelated matter

This link will give more info

theblaze.com/stories/…

We couldn't leave downtown b/c it had been blocked off - tear gas was used, & we were in movement en masse trying to stay out of the way. The local shop keepers & restauranters made sure we were kept out of the way of any "action". I would have no issue with going back to Oaxaca again some day, its a beautiful city & so are the people. All of us who are able to travel to Mexico, are so privileged, we need to have an understanding that there are may people in Mexico who have very little, & I am honoured that we are able to share their country with them.

Alan

Thursday, January 23, 2014

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Oaxaca Whistle Language Struggles to Survive MANUEL RUEDA - 01/22/2014, 08:02AM / Updated 01/22/2014, 06:35PM

Oaxaca Whistle Language Struggles to Survive
MANUEL RUEDA - 01/22/2014, 08:02AM / Updated 01/22/2014, 06:35PM

The isolation of the Mexican town San Pedro Sochiapam, nested deep in the Oaxaca mountains, has probably helped to preserve its most famous cultural asset: A unique whistle language that enables people to communicate like birds.

"I think that it's been around ever since this town existed," said Marcelino Flores, a 67-year-old farmer, who studies the local Chinanteco language.

"A relative of my wife's who was 100 recently died, and she said that ever since she was small the police would call each other by whistling," Flores said.

San Pedro's "whistle language," known locally as El Chiflido, is actually a whistled form of the Chinanteco language.

When they whistle, chiflido users emulate the tonal sounds of Chinanteco, an indigenous language with 14 tonal combinations that sounds somewhat like Thai to the untrained ear.

Marcelino Flores is one of the last users of the whistled form of Chinanteco

Chiflido users can whistle thousands of ideas over long distances, and hold a complex conversation without uttering a single word.

"People in other towns are amazed at our ability to whistle, its something that makes me proud" said Flores, who has been visited by linguists from New Zealand, Canada and the U.S.

Like many indigenous tongues in Mexico however, the chiflido is slowly retreating into extinction. Flores estimates that some 150 people in San Pedro can use the chiflido. But Mark Sicoli, a Georgetown University linguist who specializes in Chinanteco, says that he found just seven senior citizens and two young people who were fluent in the whistle language.

“If one of those guys gets work out of town, then the language is under threat,” Sicoli said in a phone interview.

Part of the problem is that the whistle language no longer suits the lifestyle of local residents.

Its main purpose according to linguists, is to enable communication between farmers who are separated by long distances and deep valleys. It is also used by hunters who split away from each other, as they chase animals in the forests that surround San Pedro.

However, as the residents of San Pedro turn away from an agricultural lifestyle and migrate to cities, the chiflido is not as needed.

The Mexican government hasn't done much to rescue this tradition either, unlike Spain, which has invested heavily in saving a rare whistle language used in the Canary Islands.

Currently there is no program to teach the chiflido in the local school. And women don't practice the whistle language because locals consider it improper for females to whistle.

"Young men can do some whistling, but it's a weak form of whistling that goes no longer than 30 feet," Flores said.

"I am afraid this tradition is going to disappear."

But there is some hope.

See the above video for more on this unique whistle language, and two young people who are actually using it.

Fire dancing in Zipolite, Mexico

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Proyectos ecològicos a bajo costo para preservar Zipolite, Mazunte y Puerto Angel...o si te interesa participar en la construcciòn y aprendizaje de una ecoaldea en Zipolite comunicate....

Proyectos ecològicos a bajo costo para preservar Zipolite, Mazunte y Puerto Angel...o si te interesa participar en la construcciòn y aprendizaje de una ecoaldea en Zipolite comunicate....

Green projects at low cost to preserve Zipolite, Mazunte and PuertoAngel ... or if you are interested in participating in building and learning in an ecovillage Zipolite comunicate ....,es

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

SeaHawks!

Valentina Degan los esperamos con el SUSHI en el RESTAURANT-BAR "La PasiOn" de DOMINGO a JUEVES !!! no falten !!! ...y Mojito 2 X 50 pesos !!!!

Valentina Degan

los esperamos con el SUSHI en el RESTAURANT-BAR "La PasiOn" de DOMINGO a JUEVES !!! no falten !!! ...y Mojito 2 X 50 pesos !!!!

REHABILITÁCIÓS PROGRAM MEXIKÓBAN

Published on Jan 21, 2014

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