Welcome to Puerto Escondido now that you're here with us.
Feel free to lose your shoes and reduce your attire upon arrival
As far as Mexican beach destinations go. Puerto Escondido is super laid back moderately developed.
But free from big commercial chains such as resorts and fast food joints.
Puerto consists of a super laid back lifestyle but with enough activities to want to make you stay here forever!
We will warn you though!
This place is quite a paradise and it will be very hard to leave very
Very hard to leave!
In all seriousness, Puerto Escondido has five main areas and each has a culture of
their own so in this video we're going to be breaking down those areas their beaches including
what to do and where to stay so let's go let's go!
Here are the five main areas in Puerto Escondido
Bacocho, Rinconada, Centro/Bahia Principal/Zicatela and La Punta
We will start off our vlog with a bike ride to the Riconada/Bacocho area
Okay i got my hat, shades, face mask, bike and now we're ready to take a bike ride.
Over to Bacocho and Rinconada areas
We're going to show you around show you around the restaurants the beaches and the areas
Rinconada is known as a calm and relaxing area in Puerto Escondido.
Here you'll find diverse options for food such as Mediterranean, Polish, Sushi and Italian food.
Most importantly, Riconada is home to playa Carrizalillo one of the best beaches in Puerto Escondio
Our next stop playa Carrizalillo by far my favorite beach. I like here because the
beach is so clean and this is probably the best place for beginner surfers to come to surf.
So come check it out! One thing you'll learn about puerto escondido from this guide is that every nice
beach with calm waters has a hike down. Carizalillo is no exception you'll see why!
Puerto Escondido did a great job in hiding its beaches!
How about we fast forward this hike and get there already?!
On our way to playa Coral we wanted to point out that there's a beach house with the same name
That offers private entrance into the beach um but there are other ways to get into playa coral
If you keep going in that direction you'll come across the hotel Villa Mexicana and
for a small fee they will charge you entrance to the beach from there but it usually includes
two beers or a burger so it's pretty good deal
Playa coral is a beautiful beach and because
you pay for admission we recommend you stay for a couple hours to make sure you get your pesos worth
From Playa Coral you can hop over to bacocho the neighbor beach you can walk across these rocks
if the tide is low and avoid the hike up and down to get to bacocho pakocho's charm lives and it's
Bacocho's charm lives in its beautiful sunsets.
I would not go for a swim in Bacocho because the waves can be very aggressive
at times but we highly recommend you come out to Bacocho and release some turtles into the water.
Tourists can visit the turtle sanctuary to learn about their efforts to preserve this
endangered species. Sea turtles and turtle eggs are historically a part of the oaxacan gastronomy
but in recent years the human consumption of sea turtles has been more regulated.
The turtle sanctuaries are not government-funded and rely on tourism for sustainability.
They will protect the eggs from human and non-human predators until they hatch and are ready to be released into the ocean
We gotta take them out to the sea now they might not survive otherwise on their own
they're super delicate all the different ways that they could die or get eaten
oh we got a runner hold on guys we're almost there don't get eaten
you can do it
Now we need to scare away those damn birds or they can pick them up and eat them
This is the most important part of their journey.
Making sure that they make it out to the sea otherwise these damn birds
When you get to Puerto Angelito you have two options you can either hike down to
the right to play angelito or you can take a hike to the left to playa Manzanillo.
We recommend hiking down to playa manzanilla first because it's an easier hike.
Playa Manzanillo is a good beach to snorkel here you can find fish and sea urchins near the rocks.
If you wish to check out Playa Angelito there's
a bridge that connects you to playa angelito from manzanillo
Playa Angelito is a family oriented beach that offers
boat activities low tides and seafood restaurants.
Centro de Puerto during the day is busy with locals getting their groceries purchased and running errands
here you'll find delicious and economical restaurants compared to the other areas of Puerto.
One of centro's main attractions is the Bahia Principal.
At Bahia you can take a sunrise boat trip to the deep blue sea to see dolphins
and if you're lucky maybe you'll catch some fish.
Now if you're very lucky maybe you'll catch a Marlin.
It's also a starting point to a hiking trail alongside the ocean
but we highly advise that you ask if it's safe to take the hike when the ocean tide
is too strong it isn't recommendable to take the trail as it can be very dangerous
Okay now that we've visited the Bacocho and Rinconada area
As well as the Centro and Bahia area we want to show you our favorite place to stay, right in the middle.
Casa Losodeli and Coworking Space
Welcome to Casa Losodeli your home in Puerto Escondido
Thanks Angie this place truly feels like home because the staff are lovely and the people
are one big community. The hostel hires volunteers to run activities or staff the bar and reception
Kevin is the current activities volunteer and gets a bed in the dorms in exchange for his work.
You can choose to stay in a four person dorm in a private room or a small apartment
Another Losodeli favorite the Losodeli cafe. They use locally sourced ingredients and make
all of their bread and pastries fresh daily in-house and it is so so good.
Losodeli has some of the best internet reception in puerto scondido so it's a great option for
digital nomads or remote workers.
Pool breaks during the day are a normal part of the workday.
Welcome to playa Zicatela one of the most beautiful beaches that Puerto Escondido
has to offer but also one of the most dangerous if you're not a professional surfer.
If you're a beginner surfer skip it you got to go to la punta but if you're at a higher level
of surfing this is going to be a place just for you playa Zicatela has the third largest
waves in the world so if you're a professional surfer this is the place that you want to come
Here are those aggressive ways that i promised y'all surfers delight!
As crazy and destructive as they look they sound so relaxing when
you're sitting down alongside the sand if heaven had a place it would be here
One things i love about this place you can walk around go to the restaurants
no shoes no shirt no problem no mask big problem let me put mine back on
Zicatella is a popular area to stay in because it's centrally located
and has a big nightlife strip right on the beach lots of bars nightclubs and restaurants
At the beginning of Zicatela beach there is a little fairy castle that you can hike
up for a view of the beach i don't know if it's really a fairy castle but it's
really cute and it's got towers that look like Rapunzel's tower let's hike it up.
This is one of my favorite views you got the rocks the waves
Last but not least we have La punta.
La punta is both a beach and a neighborhood with a more
hipster and backpacker vibe there are lots of bars and restaurants and people hanging
out in their swimwear we took surf lessons for about twenty five dollars for a two-hour lesson
the waves at la punta are much more beginner-friendly than the Zicatela waves.
One of our upcoming vlogs will feature our surfing experience here so keep an eye out for that one
After surfing we celebrate with drinks!
There are so many amazing food and drink spots that that's gonna get its very own vlog
Thank you so much for watching we hope you can use this video as a guide as
you plan your visit to Puerto Escondido. If you have any questions make sure to
comment down below in our upcoming vlogs we will be showing you where and what to eat
places to go dancing and a reflection of of our month-long experience in Puerto Escondido.
Jenny could not resist the pool so it's just me to say goodbye
Se cuidan se bañan y nos vemos a la proxima!