Taking it Down a Notch

Luckily the road to Mazunte was paved. That´s about the most positive thing I can say about a road with so many curves and drop offs that it would make Captain A´rab nausous.

Mazunte is a beautiful beach cove, famous for the sea turtules that come to lay their eggs in the warm sand. The climate is tropical, and remeniscent of a steam room. It was nice in the early morning, and late afternoon when it was cool enough for physical exertion--the heat helped to facilitate sitting back and enjoying the beautiful coast.

Restaurants, bars, and hostals line the beach shore making it the perfect place to relax in a hammock or have a delicious red snapper dinner (too hungry to take photos).

Mazunte must mean hippie-ville in spanish, because there sure were a lot of them doing their hippie thing. It was a little overwhelming and the threat of a candida outbreak was enough reason for us to book it out of there the next day.

Puerto Escondito is one hour away from Mazunte and has a vibrant beach scene made of primarily of ex-pat surfers. Walking down the main strip almost feels like walking through Manhattan beach with all the surf shops, taco stands, and bars.

Known by surfers worldwide for the Puerto Escondito Pipeline (or so I read). The waves at PE are breath taking, and big. I´m not sure if I´ve seen waves that big breaking before. According to my trained eye the big sets had to be between 15-20ft, with smaller ones breaking all around.


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Mazunte beach, a nice beach cove. We watched a dog poop on somebodies beach towel, funny if it wasn´t you.





View from the balcony of Hostal Carlos Eintstien, in Mazunte. The epicenter of everything Pachuli and drum circle.





Puerto Escondito beach just before sunset. It´s like a three ring circus out there between the sky divers landing on the beach, horseback riders, crazy street dogs and locals.




The surfers we saw had to be towed in by a jet ski and shot into the waves. This dude got crushed a couple times by some big waves.





Sunset at Puerto Escondito.