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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

Sunday, January 15, 2012









About Mazunte

Mazunte is a small village built alongside the beach of Sierra Madre del Sur. Set a little further inland, and running parallel to the beach, is the main street of the village, connecting Mazunte with other nearby communities. Along this street can be found a wide variety of restaurants and accomodation options, with others being found on the smaller streets that lead to the beach.
One of the main attractions in Mazunte is the National Mexican Turtle Center, founded in 1991 and renovated in 2011. This aquarium and research center contains specimens of all marine turtles native to Mexico as well as six species of fresh water and two species of land turtles also found in the country.
Mazunte is also home to Cosméticos Naturales de Mazunte, a cosmetics company consisting of a cooperative of fifteen families that produce and sell 100% ecologically firendly products.
The main attractions of Mazunte continue to be its natural assets. 5 of the 6 species of the worlds marine turtles come here to nest, and depending on the season, trips can be arranged to see the spectacular sight of thousands of these endangered creatures clambering onto the beaches to lay their eggs. Furthermore, it is also possible to be involved in the release of the hatchlings back into the ocean. Boat trips can also be arranged to see whales, dolphins, sea turtles, manta rays and other aquatic species.
At the far west end of Mazunte’s main beach is Punta Cometa. This rocky outcrop is the southernmost point of Oaxaca state. Local folklore states that the type of stone that forms Punta Cometa cannot be found elsewhere in Mexico, and it is beleived that this area is of special spiritual and energetical significance. There are also stories about Aztec and or pirate treasure hidden here!




Zapotec ruins, Monte Albán, Oaxaca


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Monte Alban, MexicoPhotograph: Alamy
Zapotec ruins, Monte Albán, Oaxaca 
Monte Albán is less well known than many other pre-Columbian sites in Mexico but it is in a spectacular location on top of a levelled-off ridge at the point where three valleys meet, just outside Oaxaca city. Views from every vantage point are magnificent, with forest-clad mountains seeming to stretch infinitely towards Guatemala and beyond. The feeling of eternity among the ruins with the stunning Sierra Madre backdrop made me feel insignificant, overwhelmed by the vastness of nature. However, I was surprised at how comforting this was. Truly awe-inspiring.
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LYOBAN, PLAYA ZIPOLITE, OAXACA


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Welcome to Hostel Lyoban! We are on beautiful Zipolite Beach in Oaxaca, Mexico, a nude beach with a safe and respectful attitude. We offer rooms on the beach with restaurant, pool, bar, and wireless Internet access.
Come visit us!
Bienvenido al Hostal Lyoban! Estamos en la playa de Zipolite, una playa nudista con un ambiente de seguridad y respeto en la costa de Oaxaca (Costa Chica) en México. Ofrecemos habitaciones, restaurant, bar, piscina y señal inalambica de Internet.
Ven a visitarnos!

Mazunte!!!! inicio de año apocaliptico

ELTRONO EN POCHUTLA

Pacific Coast Mexico / Puerto Escondido Date taken - Wed 11th Jan '12 (8:00am)


 Pacific Coast Mexico / Puerto Escondido Date taken - Wed 11th Jan '12 (8:00am)





Zipolite - Mexico 12 de Enero 2012




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plage de zipolite - etat de Oaxaca ,au coucher du soleil

MAZUNTE, OAX.


This photo was taken on January 10, 2012 using aCanon EOS REBEL T3i.


Thursday, January 12, 2012

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2501 Migrants: A Photo Story of Oaxacan Exodus Todd Miller Border Wars January 11, 2012


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2501 Migrants: A Photo Story of Oaxacan Exodus

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On December 29, artist Alejandro Santiago placed 2,501 individual human-sized sculptures in the streets of Oaxaca City, Mexico, all representing people who had migrated away from his hometown of San Pedro Teococuilco, Oaxaca.
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Santiago said that when he returned to Teococuilco after a long absence in the late 1990s, he discovered that more than half of the population of the town was no longer there. Hesaid:
“The only noise we heard when we returned, was our own. When everybody decided to leave to migrate, everything became empty and alone. My friends were no longer there. My aunts and uncles were no longer there. My cousins were no longer there.”
2,500 people had left Teococuilco and migrated elsewhere.
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Santiago described it as a “painful absence” and began to recreate “their souls” with the clay sculptures, one by one by one. It took him six years, he said, to "repopulate his town." The cumulative expression behind their silent stares tells the “story behind the numbers and statistics.”
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These sculptures in the centro of Oaxaca City, says journalist Octavio Velez in the Mexican daily La Jornada, are a public interaction with a “dynamic that affects thousands of Oaxacan families and whose consequences are, in the majority of cases, devastating." Velez says that it is not only the "loss of human life in the balance, but also because of the uprooting . . . and abandonment of communities which, in some cases, have been there for hundreds of years.”
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The exodus of people out of the Oaxacan countryside to Mexico City, northern Mexico, and the United States has been dramatic. Facing structural poverty that leaves 76% of the state in constant struggle, Oaxacan organizations estimate that 250,000 are leaving the state per year. Their departure is not only dramatic, Santiago explains with his work, but painful.
This is the pain that never makes it into discussions in the United States of comprehensive immigration reform.
And it is a pain that has rarely, up to Santiago’s exhibition, been documented.


For more from the Border Wars blog, visit nacla.org/blog/border-wars. And now you can follow it on twitter @NACLABorderWars. See also "The Border: Funneling Migrants to Their Doom," by Óscar Martínez, in the September/October 2011 NACLA Report, the May/June 2011NACLA Report, Mexico's Drug Crisisand the May/June 2007 NACLA ReportOf Migrants & Minutemen.

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2501 Emigrantes 

Posted by Anonymous on January 11, 2012 - 21:59

Gracias for the story.  It is a complex one.  Just to clarify, not all 2501 sculptures are set up as of yet.  They continue to arrive and be installed.  Right now, people are intrigued and speculating if they will eventually line the streets all the way to the zocalo some six blocks away.  It is a powerful exhibit and certainly is one of the most photographed installations ever in Oaxaca.  For more photos and information please visit:http://oaxacanyear.blogspot.com/2012/01/2501-imigrantes-come-to-city.html


thanks 

Posted by todd.miller on January 12, 2012 - 21:13

Thanks for the clarification, and please send photos if the figures are arranged to extend all the way to the zocalo (once all 2501 arrive). That would be certainly quite a sight to see. And thanks for sharing your website, your photographs are beautiful. tm

Playa Tejoncito, Huatulco, Mexico January 10, 2012 by Rob Huntley

Playa Tejoncito, Huatulco, Mexico

New in my Getty Images portfolio:
Playa Tejoncito, Huatulco, Mexico
These pictures were taken from a camera rig suspended below a kite (Kite Aerial Photography – KAP).
Playa Tejoncito, Huatulco, Mexico
Playa Tejoncito, Huatulco, Mexico
Playa Tejoncito, Huatulco, Mexico
Playa Tejoncito, Huatulco, Mexico
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Gozando en Mazunte!




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Tremendo rol náutico que nos refinamos en "La Machaca" embarcación chiklamina y buen vibrezca en donde tripulación y pasajeros estuvimos sintonizados en la buena onda! Tortugas, aves y el saludo lleno de poder efervecente de más de 100 delfines Hicieron de este un rol chiklomágico e inolvidable

"Let Us In" Featuring Blackbird & Sarah Darling

Playa Zipolite, Mexico