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, May 9, 2017

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Citizens rescue whale beached in Oaxaca Mexico News Daily Citizens of Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, rallied to the aid of a humpback whale yesterday after it became stranded on a local beach.

Citizens rescue whale beached in Oaxaca

Three hours of pushing and pulling sends whale back to the deep

Mexico News Daily | Monday, May 8, 2017

Citizens of Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, rallied to the aid of a humpback whale yesterday after it became stranded on a local beach.

It was early yesterday morning that fishermen alerted municipal and Civil Protection authorities that the whale appeared to be stuck on the beach at Bahía Ensenada La Ventosa.

Over the course of three hours, fishermen, residents, visitors, environmental protection officers and Navy personnel pushed and pulled the animal — more than eight meters long and estimated to weigh some 10 tonnes — back into the water.

Helping supervise the operation was veterinarian Nayeli Aquino Rojas, coordinator of the municipal fisheries department, who concluded the whale had become disoriented during its northerly migration and pushed in to the beach by strong currents.

- See more at: http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/citizens-rescue-whale-beached-in-oaxaca/#sthash.XzlfXBkM.dpuf

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Monday, May 8, 2017

Huatulco, Zipolite/Escondido Questions Reddit Hey kooks, So I'm starting to plan my honeymoon, and am looking at Mexico, specifically Huatulco. My fiancee and have traveled a lot, and try to...

Huatulco, Zipolite/Escondido Questions

Hey kooks, So I'm starting to plan my honeymoon, and am looking at Mexico, specifically Huatulco. My fiancee and have traveled a lot, and try to...

Huatulco, Zipolite/Escondido Questions (self.surfing)

submitted 19 hours ago by hargenshnargen

Hey kooks,

So I'm starting to plan my honeymoon, and am looking at Mexico, specifically Huatulco. My fiancee and have traveled a lot, and try to stay away from seriously touristy places, and this area of Oaxaca looks built up enough to have resorts/infrastructure but not the crazy swarms of folks on the Yucatan.

So, anyway, I was doing research and realized Puerto Escondido/Zipolite is just up the coast from here.

Anyone have any experiences in this area? My partner doesn't surf...I do, but am nowhere near good enough to handle real Escondido. I'm comfortable up to about 6-7 foot surf. Ideally I'd find a beach where we can hang/read, and pop in the water for a surf over the course of the day. BTW I surf Ventura normally, and we're coming from LAX. I'd need to rent a board, would I need a wetsuit?

Are there surf spots in Huatulco proper? Should we consider some other place around here? We're going in early November 2017.

Thanks for any advice, and yes, this is a honeymoon/surfing question, hope that's alright.

TL;DR - who has spent time in Huatulco/Escondido, and is there good surf around there in November?

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[–]coolballs 2 points 18 hours ago

hey fellow kook,

I spent about a week in Puerto Escondido and had probably my best surfing day ever there. There was a huge swell that brought in 25+ foot waves. I sure as fuck didn't surf those but I got to watch some people do some crazy big wave surfing. Later I went out to the point break at Playa Carrazalillo that that was sending out these beautiful 6-7 glassy beauts. I ended up staying out there for 4 or 5 hours and got super sunburned but it was totally worth it. That beach is also in a really nice cove with cheap corona and food. Not a bad place to spend a week.

What's great about Puerto is that there are 3 great spots that have different size waves. So I stayed at La Punta (best spot to stay imo) where there's a good point break, but when the waves got too big I went to Carazalillo. There's also the beach break that gets the biggest waves, but I didn't actually get a chance to surf there.

Also, there's a really awesome mountain town in between Cuidad de Oaxaca and Puerto Escondido called San Jose Del Pacifica. I went there with a bunch of backpackers and did shrooms (pretty much all drugs are legal there). There's also a little ritual you can pay do there where they basically hot box (sauna, not pot) a room and chant and get weird. It's a good time for sure.

Also, the food in Oaxaca is really good. I think it'd be a good honeymoon spot. Southern Mexico is awesome.

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Go ahead, wear that oversized sombrero! Getting carried away with the liberal sin of political correctness

Go ahead, wear that oversized sombrero!

Getting carried away with the liberal sin of political correctness

By Glen Olives Thompson

Mexico News Daily | Saturday, May 6, 2017

I’m often accused of being a liberal (as if that were an insult) and a radical leftist (among other things not fit to print), and I get why.

I side with liberals and progressives on most matters of public policy because conservative policy ideas are mostly bromides of feckless, fustian rubbish. Don’t get me wrong, though: while I am very political, I am decidedly not ideological.

Which brings me to Cinco de Mayo. As usual, it came and went here in Mexico with barely a notice, kind of like Arbor Day in the United States. I went to the bank, went to work, and my kids went to school. I also read the dumbest article in my life, written by a fourth-generation Mexican-American, entitled “On Cinco de Mayo, here’s how not to be racist.”

The author went through the usual banal litany of things not to do in order to avoid the liberal sin of “cultural appropriation” – don’t wear oversized sombreros or Mariachi outfits, and don’t host Mexican-themed parties, among other things.

The author was apparently deeply offended by non-Mexicans celebrating with these distinctly Mexican pop-culture symbols, and thought all Mexicans should be too.

Which is funny. I’ve lived in Mexico for 15 years. While you could probably find one if you tried hard enough, I’ve never heard of a Mexican being offended by anything mentioned in the article (or anyone dressing up as Zorro or Frida Kahlo on Halloween, for that matter).

I don’t know, perhaps the author is too far removed from the reality of Mexican society, or drank too deeply from the well of liberal Kool-Aid that is political correctness.

The author did not apparently realize, nor did her editor, that racism is very different from “cultural appropriation.” The latter is a silly ideological shibboleth of the Left, firmly rooted in political correctness, not racism.

If you get bien pedo on margaritas while wearing a sombrero, you’re not a racist, or for that matter even a cultural appropriator.

If, on the other hand, you don a sombrero in the Home Depot parking lot with a sign that reads “Build that Wall!” you are, at the very least, an ignorant and misguided hillbilly xenophobe.

The Onion, my favorite satirical rag, recently ran a piece that explained why Cinco de Mayo was not a celebration of Mexico’s independence but rather the Battle of Puebla: “because Diez y Seis de Septiembre was too clunky to catch on with beer distributors.” That’s the spirit, and funny.

So, lighten up, liberals, you didn’t appropriate anybody’s cultural intellectual property by drinking a Corona while wearing a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo.

Glen Olives Thompson is a professor of North American Law at La Salle University in Chihuahua, a specialist in law and public policy and a frequent contributor to Mexico News Daily. Some of his other non-academic work can be viewed at glenolives.com.