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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

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Summer In Oaxaca From Beginning To End (VIDEO)


Bricia Lopez

Head of operations, Guelaguetza restaurant
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Summer In Oaxaca From Beginning To End (VIDEO)

Posted: 08/28/2012 8:00 am
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If home is where the heart is, then my home is Oaxaca. I was born in Mitla, a small village in the valley of Oaxaca, and moved to Los Angeles when I was 10 years of age. I guess I am now what people call, "OaxaCalifornian." Oaxaca has become the cultural epicenter of Mexico and for the past five years I've been traveling back and forth, being a tourist in my own city.
Summers in Oaxaca are launched with the Guelaguetza festival, a two week long celebration of life and culture. There are dozens of events that revolve around food, textiles, art and dance, but there is one day when it all comes together, and that is on Calenda Day. Dance parades kick off the festivities on Saturday and get everyone pumped for the Guelaguetza on Monday.
Oaxaca's Guelaguetza is celebrated on the last two Mondays of July, a day-long dance festivity where most of Oaxaca's surrounding villages gather in the city's outdoor amphitheater sharing their culture through dance and music in front of thousands of spectators. A calenda is a dance parade throughout the city that culminates in the zocalo, or main square, of Oaxaca. Picture hundreds of dancers and spectators dancing their way through the city's streets with live bands, food and mezcal -- a lot of mezcal. Everyone becomes a part of the calenda, a personification of Oaxaca.
This year, my brother traveled back to Oaxaca with friend and videographer James Cottle. They were able to squirm their way through the Calenda crowds and capture its beauty and essence in this short video below.
September marks the end of summer both in Los Angeles and in Oaxaca, and what better way to say farewell to summer than with food. In Oaxaca, I get to attend Mexico's most anticipated food festival, El Saber del Sabor; and in Los Angeles, I get to be part of LA's hottest food event of the year, the Los Angeles Times' THE TASTE inside the Paramount Studios. Food festivals are my favorite way to spend any free time I get to have. The food, the chefs, the people, the wine, the spirits, oh and did I mention the chefs? Now that is what life should be all about.
My family's restaurant, La Guelaguetza, was part of THE TASTE last year and this year we are even more excited for it. Three days, with five different sessions of unlimited food and drinks provided by Los Angeles's finest chefs, restaurants and bars. Alongside The Taste of Mexico Association, we will be curating the content inside THE TASTE's Hoy Café. The Hoy Café will be a collaboration of four of LA's top Mexican restaurants where we will offer mixology and Mexican cooking demos, mariachi, dancing, food, mezcal and tequila tastings.
I've always believed you can get a sense of a city's heartbeat through its food and THE TASTE is just that, a reflection of Los Angeles through its restaurants and culinary advocates. It's the only place where one can experience regional cuisine from all over the world, and have chefs alike Ludo Lefebvre, Ricardo Zarate, Nancy Silverton and Thomas Keller all come together in one place.
I miss Oaxaca when I am in L.A., but when my family and I are able to be part of events with as much cultural diversity as THE TASTE, it makes me feel like I am home again. Maybe next year I'll organize a calenda traveling from Oaxaca throughout Mexico, culminating in Los Angeles at THE TASTE. Hey, a girl can dream, right?
The Los Angeles Times' THE TASTE, a celebration of Southern California's culinary scene, takes place over Labor Day weekend at the Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. For tickets and additional information, please visit www.latimes.com/taste.
 
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Jensen Hassett makes the impossible all the time. He dug his rail on the drop but somehow managed to get out of it. You could hear the roar at the beach when he almost fell, which, in a fraction of a second changed to "ahhhhhwwwoooooo" of relief.


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Making Coffee in Puerto Angel by Jamison Lowell Jones


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Uno mas from Puerto Escondido...this is local boy Oscar Moncada ... Uno mas from Puerto Escondido...this is local boy Oscar Moncada on a beast of a wave at his home break. Oral http://t.co/NtoMismL by transworldsurf ... inagist.com/all/238811920440897536/


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Uno mas from Puerto Escondido...this is local boy Oscar Moncada on a beast of a wave at his home break. Oral http://t.co/NtoMismL

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A night with the turtles By Manuel Hernandez Flores on August 20, 2012


A night with the turtles

By Manuel Hernandez Flores on August 20, 2012
Turtles arriving at Playa la Escobilla, near Puerto Escondido
Turtles arriving at Playa la Escobilla, near Puerto EscondidoManuel Hernandez Flores | El Sol de la Costa
On a warm and dark night, a female turtle moves slowly over the sand of the very same beach that saw her birth just a few years ago.
The beach is at La Escobilla, just down the highway from Puerto Escondido, and we are here to witness the arrival of golfina turtles that have come to spawn. We are accompanied by engineer Manuel Rodríguez Gómez, who is the director of the Mexican Center for the Turtle in Mazunte, and the director of the Turtle Sanctuary at La Escobilla; together with biologist Martha Harfush, who is in charge of the sanctuary and has dedicated 17 years to take care of turtles in this place.
On this night the sight is beyond explanation. You are kept silently surprised by the huge number of turtles. Some are in the midst of spawning and others are already heading back to the sea.
A turtle spends around two hours in the spawning process from the moment she arrives on the beach: finding a place to spawn her eggs, carving a hole that is 30 to 40 cm deep, and performing the spawning process, which takes from 30 to 40 minutes. Then she spends some 15 to 20 minutes covering the nest with sand and flattening it before returning to the sea.
The turtle performs this marvelous process in a very slow fashion, while challenged by serious difficulty in getting around. Because of the great effort required a lot of groaning acompanies the process. It’s worth mentioning that once the turtle starts spawning, the process won’t stop for any reason. Even if the turtle is picked up and moved, according to biologists, she keeps expelling eggs.
Martha Harfush said that mating takes an average of 30 days, during which the male is mounted over the female turtle. When it’s over the male appears dead. That shouldn’t be a surprise: 30 days is a long time!
The Mexican Center for the Turtle estimates that over one million turtles of the golfina species arrive annually at La Escobilla.
This starts in the months of July and August and ends between December and January.
Hatching time of the eggs is 40 to 45 days. Once they are born, the turtles that survive need between eight to ten years to be able to mate.
Every turtle spawns an average of 100 eggs, of which, according to the biologists, only a fraction survives. This is because the eggs are exposed to different dangers: ants, flies, beetles, dogs, birds, and humans.
An interesting fact: when the beach is filled with nests and a turtle comes and selects a space as her own, she will use it even if it is occupied, destroying the eggs already there and creating space to deposit her own. That night I visited La Escobilla I saw one of them do just that; the little eggs came flying out like golf balls.
In the area where we were watching, which was about 40 meters in diameter, there were over 70 turtles spawning.
Prime time for the arrival of turtles is between 11 pm and 4 am.

 Turtle facts:

Size: 80 cm long, 60 kg in weight
Diet: Prawns and jellyfish
The spawning area is from Baja California Sur to Central America.
Adult golfina turtles are considered one of the most numerous species, but threatened nonetheless. These turtles migrate from their feeding to their breeding zone, and only grown females return to the beach to spawn. A nest can have between 60 and 170 eggs, which must be incubated between six and 13 weeks.
Baby turtles coming out of the nest head immediately towards the brightest light, typically the moon.
Mature females return to the beaches where they were born to breed and lay their eggs. They make between two and three nests per season, even though they generally lay eggs every two years. Their life expectancy is 50 years.
In the small town of La Escobilla, there is a cooperative called Turtle Sanctuary of la Escobilla, organized in such a way that they serve as tourist guides for scheduled visits. There is a small restaurant along with cabins with prices ranging from $400 to $450 per night.
La Escobilla is a turtle sanctuary because of the huge number of turtles that arrive year-round, and is the most important marine turtle nesting center in Mexico from a numerical standpoint, and one of the most important worldwide.
This beach is around 25 km long and is located in the municipality of Santa María Tonameca. The nesting zone is around seven or eight kilometres long and is located at the eastern side of the beach.
Reprinted from the archives of El Sol de la Costa.
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