Jul 16, 2006 - Puerto Escondido

We decided to end our Mexican adventure on the beach and headed South to Puerto Escondido. The town of Puerto Escondido was established in 1928 as a port for shipping coffee, but today it is little more than a small beach front community with a laid-back, easy-going attitude. I found this sentence about Puerto on the web, "It does not cater to the high end tourist..." This is true. Puerto is a world famous (or at least a world destination) for surfers and surfers rule Playa Zicatela. The waves and riptides at Zicatela make it unsafe to...