Zipolite

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Introducing Zipolite

The beautiful 1.5km stretch of pale sand called Zipolite, beginning about 2.5km west of Puerto Ángel, is fabled as southern Mexico’s perfect budget chill-out spot. It’s a place where you can do as little as you like and enjoy good food and inexpensive accommodation all in wonderfully elemental surroundings of crashing surf, pounding sun, rocky headlands and tree-covered hills. Inexpensive places to stay and eat line the beach, many still reassuringly ramshackle and wooden and with tall thatched roofs that help to create the unique Zipolite landscape. This is one of those magical places where you may find yourself postponing departure more than once.

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Zipolite has a certain fame as a nudist beach; in fact total nudity is common only at the western end of the beach and in the small cove called Playa del Amor at the east end.

Last updated: Feb 17, 2009

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  1. box-of-rain avatar
    RE: 3-4 weeks in Mexico

    by box-of-rain 21 August 2011

    If it was me I would hang out in the DF for several days (including a Teotihuacan visit) and then grab a bus to Oaxaca, where I would…
  2. mclarjh avatar
    RE: Traveling to Oaxaca for a month

    by mclarjh 25 July 2011

    +...would love recommendations on other things to see or do in Oaxaca or nearby. I love hiking, beaches, wildlife, etc+ I've been hiking…
  3. oaxacaculture avatar
    Re: Huatulco

    by oaxacaculture 22 July 2011

    I'd go up the road to Zipolite or Mazunte. Way beyond the horrors of tourist-packed Huatulco and environs. There, you can get a cabana…

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