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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.

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 "Don't forget us": they ask at Piña Palmera

June 26, 2022




Four weeks after the passage of Hurricane Agatha, the rehabilitation center for people with disabilities on the isthmus of Oaxaca remains closed. They need help to rebuild the roofs and also to recover the teaching equipment


Text: Daniela Pastrana


Photos: Courtesy of Piña Palmera


MEXICO CITY.- By telephone, Flavia Anau recounts: 


“We need to rebuild roofs, which were highly damaged, raise the demolished spaces, such as the carpentry, which is a basic space to live independently. And we need to recover the didactic materials and the equipment…well, almost everything”, he finally says.


Flavia is the general coordinator of Piña Palmera, a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities that is in the municipality of Pochutla, Oaxaca, and that for 30 years has served the populations and communities most affected by poverty in the coastal region. and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.


It does so from a community perspective, not charity, which means that it seeks to give tools to people who have a disability so that they can integrate into the community.


The call for help to the Pie de Página team is made by Carmina Hernández, a workshop facilitator from Piña Palmera, who communicates through Facebook and then by mail, to alert us of the situation in which the center is, a month after Hurricane Ágatha passed by the coast and collapsed everything. 


“Dear Daniela, thank you for being open to listening to the tragedy that Piña Palmera is experiencing due to the hurricane, it has not been easy for the media to give us a voice. She has been working with them since 1996 and is an outstanding job with people with disabilities and their families in indigenous and / or rural communities. Since before the tragedy I sought to publicize it, because Piña is better known and recognized in other countries than in Mexico, ”says the message that she sent us by email, accompanied by photos and videos.


Like her are Malena, José, Paz, Toño, Alejandro, Misael and Cristian. People with different disabilities who have become teachers, responsible for activities and a central part of the project. 






Six hours of rain destroy three decades of work

Hundreds of people with disabilities have passed through Piña Palmera, 30 years of work that has only been interrupted by the hurricane that made landfall four weeks ago 10 kilometers from Zipolite, the famous beach that is next to the rehabilitation center.


Until that moment, the center gave care to about 500 people, with different disabilities. It had permanent workshops for electricity, carpentry, cooking. And visits to communities such as Cosoaltepec, Santo Domingo, Las Cuevas, Zipolite, Puerto Escondido, Candelaria.


The hurricane that entered on May 30 destroyed 80 percent of the center. Three decades of work collapsed in six hours of rain.


“Do you remember there was a bridge? It was very small and there the trees got stuck and the water could no longer be stopped, which entered with an impressive force,” Flavia narrates on the phone.


He also says that when the governor, Alejandro Murat, arrived the next day, "he made a frightened face, because it was a disaster" and they sent the Army to help lift the trees. Then it was his wife, the president of the state DIF, who sent them a backhoe that worked for two days. She also donated mattresses to them.


But after that, the work has been of the volunteers. And help comes slowly. After four weeks, just this weekend they were able to get the internet back.


“We need the active participation of people because alone and alone we are not going to be able to rebuild what is required,” says Flavia.


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Daniela Pastrana

She wanted to be an explorer and see the world, but she got to know journalism and preferred to try to understand human societies. She directed the Red de Periodistas de a Pie for six years, and founded Pie de Página, a digital medium that seeks to change the narrative of terror installed in the Mexican press. She always has more questions than answers.

What to Do When the Price Drops After You Book


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Issue 103: What to do when the price drops after you book.
 
 
Pre-pandemic, when you booked a flight, your dates were pretty-well locked in. (Well, 24 hours after you booked.) If you wanted to change or cancel, you had to pay a $200+ penalty in addition to any fare difference.

But since 2020, the major US airlines got rid of those penalties. (AmericanDeltaUnitedAlaskaHawaiianJetBlue all joined Southwest in axing change/cancellation fees; Spirit and other budget carriers—shockingly—still have penalties.)

This flexibility is awesome for two reasons, one expected and one unexpected.

First, you can change your travel dates post-booking without paying an egregious fee. Great!

But you may not have realized the second opportunity: if you book a flight and the fare later drops, you can often rebook and save the difference.
Let’s say you’ve booked a flight from Chicago to Seattle for $200 one way on Alaska. Two weeks after you booked, though, the price of your flight drops to $125.

Pre-2020, rebooking wouldn’t have been worth it because you would’ve incurred more change fees than the $75 savings. But today, that $75 can be yours.

Just pull up your flight reservation on the airline’s website and look for a link to Change or Cancel the flight, as below:

 
If you wanted a different flight or different dates, click Change reservation. The process is simple, and if the new flight is cheaper, you’ll get airline travel credit.

But if you want to rebook your original flight, most airlines obfuscate the process. In many cases, they won’t even show your original flight as an option when you click to Change reservation.

Instead, the way is to cancel your original flight, receive $200 Alaska flight credit in exchange, and then use it to quickly rebook the new $125 fare.

End result: same flight and $75 in flight credit.
The new policy of free changes and cancellations comes with a major carveout: it doesn’t apply for basic economy tickets.

As lovers of cheap flights, we dislike this fact. But it’s an important consideration when deciding which fare to choose.

If we’re looking at an already-very-cheap fare, or a flight in a few weeks that’s unlikely to drop in price, we’d book basic economy.

If we’re booking a flight six months out and main economy fares are only $30 or $40 more, we’re going with that. There’s ample opportunity during those six months for the fare to drop and when it does, we want to take advantage.
The last caveat to be keenly aware of is that when you change or cancel a reservation, you get flight credit, not a cash refund. (If the airline is the one to cancel or significantly change your flight, you’re eligible for cash.)

Travel credit typically needs to be used within 12 months of being issued.