Translate

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, June 8, 2014

How much do you know about this school year’s biggest news stories?

Lesson Plans

Back to lesson plans archive
May 18, 2014

News quiz: How much do you know about this school year’s biggest stories? (paper version)

A lot has happened in the world since the end of the last school year. With summer vacation just around the corner, test your students on their knowledge of the past year’s biggest news stories.

A lot has happened in the world since the end of the last school year. With summer vacation 
just around the corner, test your knowledge of the past year’s biggest news stories. 
1. Which of the following historic anti-discrimination laws, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson during 
the 1960s, did the Supreme Court declare partly unconstitutional in June 2013? 
a) The Voting Rights Act 
b) The Civil Rights Act 
c) The Immigration and Nationality Act 
d) The Equal Rights Amendment 
2. In March, Russia annexed the diverse Crimean peninsula, which is considered part of which Eastern 
European country? 
a) Latvia 
b) Slovakia 
c) Romania 
d) Ukraine 
3. This year's Olympic Games were hosted by which of the following countries, which is considered a 
historical rival of the United States? 
a) Brazil 
b) Russia 
c) China 
d) England 
4. The culture of bullying in the National Football League became news when Miami Dolphins player 
Jonathan Martin accused which of his teammates of tormenting him? 
a) Richie Incognito 
b) Richard Sherman 
c) Jason Witten 
d) Colin Kaepernick 
  
www.pbs.org/newshour/extra 
5. Little information is available on the fate of Malaysian Airlines flight 370, a passenger plane that 
disappeared while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, but experts believe that it crashed in 
__________. 
a) Central Asia 
b) the Pacific Ocean 
c) the Indian Ocean 
d) China 
6. “Food stamps” is the informal name for the federal assistance program that helps families in need 
purchase food items. What is the formal acronym for this program? 
a) TANF 
b) FDA 
c) WIC 
d) SNAP 
7. Nelson Mandela was a hero in his home country of South Africa for fighting the racist system of 
apartheid. He died in December 2013 and was remembered as a treasured human rights advocate 
around the world. During his struggle for equality his was imprisoned for ______ years. 
a) 6 
b) 12 
c) 22 
d) 27 
8. In August 2013 food workers went on strike to protest low wages and to demand an increase to help 
lift them out of poverty. The current minimum wage is ____ and they want to increase it to ______. 
a) $7.25 | $15.00 
b) $8.00 | $11.00 
c) $6.75 | $10.10 
d) $5.50 | $12.00 
  
www.pbs.org/newshour/extra 
9. With which Middle Eastern country did the U.S. strike a historic nuclear deal in November? 
a) Iraq 
b) Syria 
c) Israel 
d) Iran 
10. In September 2013 which terrorist group attacked a public mall in Kenya killing at least 62 people 
and injuring 175 more? 
a) Al-Qaida 
b) Al-Shabab 
c) Boko Haram 
d) Hamas 
11. In 1977 NASA launched Voyager 1 with the hopes to learn more about the planets in our solar 
system and beyond. In September 2013, scientists reported they had now determined that Voyager left 
our solar system at or around August 25, 2012 and is now in _______________. 
a) the Andromeda Galaxy 
b) interstellar space 
c) intergalactic space 
d) the magnetosphere 
12. In September 2013 which terrorist group attacked a public mall in Kenya killing at least 62 people 
and injuring 175 more? 
a) Al-Qaida 
b) Al-Shabab 
c) Boko Haram 
d) Hamas 

Good-looking Kpop Boys [Compilation]

Zipolite Oaxaca shared Hridaya Yoga's photo.

Zipolite Oaxaca shared Hridaya Yoga's photo.


Zipolite Oaxaca shared Radio Caracol La VOZ De Mazunte 101.1 fm's photo. June 6 No olvides pasar este fin de semana al Museo de la Tortuga. Expo Chagas, la exposición que pude salvar tu vida.

No olvides pasar este fin de semana al Museo de la Tortuga. Expo Chagas, la exposición que pude salvar tu vida.


Friday, June 6, 2014

Eiqu - Kick Back in a Maybach (Official Musicvideo), Come And Get It - Selena Gomez PARODY - Ready For SPAGHETTI! - Eiqu






Eiqu - Bassline (Prod. by TRAKZ) CHRIS BROWN INSTRUMENTAL REMIX











Felipe Leonardo Rubiel added 4 new photos — at Mazunte. 5 hrs · Un rincon de la costa de San Pedro Pochutla A corner of the coast of San Pedro Pochutla (Translated by Bing)


Felipe Leonardo Rubiel added 4 new photos — at Mazunte.
5 hrs · 
Un rincon de la costa de San Pedro Pochutla
A corner of the coast of San Pedro Pochutla (Translated by Bing)



Druthers - April Wine

Supermix of the 70's dance classics By DJ-POWERMASTERMIX

Juvenile Delinquent - April Wine, Tonite Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love - April Wine, Drop Your Guns - April Wine, Gimme Love - April Wine, Teenage Love - April Wine




Tommy Trash Mixify Clubcast Series

So.... rain season, huh? #RainSeason #Mazunte #Oaxaca #Mexico #Flooding #ImNeighbouringACrocodileThough #LetsHopeItStaysWhereItBelongsTo

So.... rain season, huh? #RainSeason #Mazunte #Oaxaca #Mexico #Flooding #ImNeighbouringACrocodileThough #LetsHopeItStaysWhereItBelongsTo


So.... rain season, huh? #RainSeason #Mazunte #Oaxaca #Mexico #Flooding #ImNeighbouringACrocodileThough #LetsHopeItStaysWhereItBelongsTo
camperclan : Lol. Hopefully you have a kind neighbor with a boat :)
fantigold : @camperclan yeah! Thank God, someone took me to get my stuff. Hope you're fine! X

#tortugas#mazunte #tortugas, #mazunte @titamedina, @andysv88, @caritovr, @roxanaandre

#tortugas#mazunte



NASA sees remnants of Tropical Storm Boris merging with Gulf low

http://phys.org/news/2014-06-nasa-remnants-tropical-storm-boris.html



NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the remnants of Tropical Storm Boris merging with System 90L, the elongated low pressure area in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico on June 5 at 4:05 a.m. EDT. Credit: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-nasa-remnants-tropical-storm-boris.html#jCp

Playa Zipolite. Welcome To The Beach Of The Dead!: Milk N Cookies Brady Volkman Play Post - Bro Milk...

Playa Zipolite. Welcome To The Beach Of The Dead!: Milk N Cookies Brady Volkman Play Post - Bro Milk...

El Radio Está Tocando Tu Canción (06-06-14)

Dead Show/podcast for FRIDAY !!! 6/6/14 By The Deadpod

Massive - Live Set

The Exceptional Traveler: A Traveler's Alternative to Assisted Living

The Exceptional Traveler: A Traveler's Alternative to Assisted Living

Posted: Updated: 
Print Article
"Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." -- Miriam Beard
How To Do Exceptional Things Inexpensively
2014-05-22-doris1ccp.jpg
My mother, Doris, at 83
My mother was a beautiful, active woman when she had a stroke. Afterward, her mind and speech were as they'd always been, so were her expectations. She resisted any changes to her lifestyle or "being told what to do" and many of our attempts to keep her safe failed. We'd find the MedicAlert device by the bathroom sink or on a nightstand in her bedroom; anywhere but around her neck. After a year, even with the help of a sainted caretaker named Nereyda, we knew we needed a Plan B.
I considered many options and countries before deciding to rent a house in Mexico. We came close in Panama, but moving my mother to a property beneath a volcano... well, I wasn't setting myself up for those endless family jokes. It turned out that Mexico had everything: short, inexpensive and frequent flights, excellent health care, affordable help, American TV on cable, American foods at Walmart -- and Mom could chat for hours with friends through a low-cost international phone plan.
I was at the Mexican Tourist Office when I casually asked if anyone knew of someone with a home to rent and was surprised that within a week I received two messages on my answering machine offering houses with real possibilities. The first unfortunately didn't have a bedroom on the ground floor; the second was in a village outside of Oaxaca and sounded perfect. The owners Leslie and Richard were living in Madrid and after a long phone conversation with Leslie, I booked a ticket to Oaxaca to see the house.
2014-05-22-oasis01.jpg
El Oasis couldn't have been more aptly named. Situated behind a high wall, the crimson-colored house overlooked a vista of the Juárez mountains. My heart sunk at the dramatic entrance with steep stairs, but the manager quickly showed me a back door level with the street.
El Oasis was an artist's house filled with books and a collection of glazed jade-green pottery from Santa María Atzompa in the multicolored-tiled kitchen. French doors in the master bedroom opened onto a patio with small gurgling fountain; the wide entrance to the huge private bathroom offered easy access and independence for someone using a walker. There was a separate two-bedroom guest cottage and an office where my partner, Tony, and I could work. The gardens were filled with fruits and herbs. As I toured the property, a large sweet mush of a dog named Betty joined me. It was as if the house had been designed for us with every single feature we needed.
2014-05-22-oasis02c.jpg
I sent Leslie an email describing the help my mother would need. In addition to the regular staff of three (Cipriano, house manager/driver; Rosa and Margarita, housekeeper and laundress), Leslie hired Marta, an English-speaking registered nurse who would live in, and the indomitable, warm-hearted Lourdes as cook. Mom would be catered to and pampered; she could eat what she wanted, bathe when she wanted, and Cipriano would drive her wherever she wanted to go. The staff of five would cost the same as one person had in New York. And doctors, even specialists, made house calls!
El Oasis was located in what appeared to be a tiny dirt-road village, but uncovering the depth of the community was the perfect metaphor for peeling the layers of an onion. The adorable elderly couple Modesta and Sinon were happy to order whatever I requested if they didn't have it in their tiendita. Same with Adolphina at her produce stand. Bardomiano roasted coffee beans for the international market and us; the superb seamstress Margarita tailored Mother's duvet cover I'd brought to fit Leslie's quilt. By day two, Mom was drinking pure nectar juices squeezed by Lourdes.
2014-05-22-oasis03.jpg
Rosa and Margarita
At home we'd resisted getting a wheelchair. We'd clung to the belief that with rehab, Mother would walk again. But in Mexico a wheelchair represented freedom to explore. We went for lunch at Hotel Camino Royale, the beautifully converted 1576 Santa Catalina convent with remnants of faded frescoes on the walls and a covered terrace restaurant. Cipriano drove us to the Sunday Tlacolula market, the largest indigenous market in all of Latin America, where it seemed everything, from the tangerine and rose-colored ice pops to the deep-yellow grilled corn, was sprinkled with sweet red chile powder. We bought armfuls of wildflowers for almost every room in the house and bags of dried jamaica flowers to boil into the tart cranberry-like juice we loved.
2014-05-22-IMG_4912t7p.jpg
Tlacolula Market
We'd arranged a rotating schedule so that Mother would never be without family or friends. Initially it was Tony and I one month, my brother two weeks, my sister and her daughters two weeks, then one of Mom's friends for two weeks (they were already lined up for months) before it was back to us.
Tony and I both work freelance, so we could stay longer whenever we wanted or needed to. In the pool, with water streaming through my hair and over my body, the stress of New York hospitals and emergency rooms disappeared. Tony picked handfuls of limes from the garden each night for drinks and perfected a sorbet made from three varieties of mangoes. The house was filled with music. We were thriving here, not just Mother, but all of us.
My brother and sister were at our mother's side when she died. I returned to see an altar the staff improvised at the foot of her bed; saint decals on glass candle holders luminous in flickering flames; bouquets of flowers in vases draped with rosary beads; Mom's photo prominent in a silver frame. She'd died around the time of Day of the Dead celebrations and my sister and I joined thousands to remember loved ones at the local cemetery. Our mother had the best last year of life anyone could hope for, and it couldn't have been in a better place.
Don't limit yourself when you're looking for the solution to a problem. It's a big world.
Click on the green comment box to the left of the article as you read. Let me hear about your experiences. Ask questions. I'm happy to offer suggestions and look forward to solving challenges together. And check back every two weeks for my latest travel tips.
Next blog: My First Date With Airbnb
Disclaimer: I receive no compensation for my recommendations.

Thousands evacuated as Mexico braces for storm

Thousands evacuated as Mexico braces for storm
Thousands evacuated as Mexico braces for storm

The government of Chiapas evacuates 16,000 people as tropical depression Boris approaches northern states.

World Bulletin / News Desk
At least 16,000 people have been evacuated in northern Mexico as tropical depression Boris bears down on the region.
Boris, which was earlier downgraded from a tropical storm, is expected to make landfall in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca on Wednesday, bringing torrential rain.
The Governor of Chiapas, Manuel Velasco said: "We’re going to have days of intense rain. We expect a precipitation of 250 millimeters per day - about 500 millimeters in 48 hours."
“In Chiapas we evacuated families of the zones of the Istmo-Costa, Soconusco, Frailesca and Sierra."
The National Coordination of Civil Protection said 42 municipalities in Chiapas had been put on emergency.

Evacuation call

Velasco asked people who lived in high-risk areas to take refuge in local government hostels.
The Mexican Navy and Army, are preparing to assist federal and local governments in aiding the civil population.
The National Commission of Water said Chiapas, Tabasco, the south of Veracruz, Campeche and the east of Oaxaca will have torrential rains throughout Wednesday.
The institution said the rains will continue in the states, and Quintana Roo, until 6 June.
Rains are also expected to strengthen across the south of the Gulf of Mexico.


Related mexico storm