Zipolite Travel Guide

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Zipolite (pronounced Zee-po-LEE-tay) is a tiny, hammock-strewn beach town along Mexico's south central Oaxacan coastline. Though it's one beach town among many in the region, Zipolite is renowned more than the others as a backpacker's haven. Although, strangely enough, the Zapotec definition of the word "zipolite" is allegedly "beach of the death," never fear: Zipolite is relaxed, friendly, and warmly welcoming. Fire dancers twirl their flames at the water's edge during the starry, balmy nights, little beach bars serve coronas and rum cocktails, and a hammock can be had as a bed for a reasonable handful of pesos. The town is young, full of travelers, hippies, and gringos, and though it's hardly more than a long stretch of golden sand and tepid blue waves, with a claim to fame that has more to do with that languid, slow, time-stops-here sort of feeling than with adventure travel and sightseeing, it's close to the larger towns of Puerto Escondido and Puerto Angel, which can connect you to other, more fast-paced destinations.

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