The vortex of Zipolite

Trip Start May 06, 2007
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Trip End Jun 20, 2007


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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Although I was only planning to stay in Zipolite one night, I ended up staying for four!  The place is so nice and mellow, the rooms so cheap, and the ocean so warm... each night I planned to take the bus to San Cristobol at 8pm, and each night, I changed my mind at the last minute and decided to stay.

You can walk around the whole town barefoot.  The food is amazing.  While I was in the shower this morning, a gigantic talon clambered onto the window opening... when I looked out I saw it was a huge, black iguana, with a few small cream-colored patches around his neck!  When it rains there are also these huge toads that come out, almost as big as my head.  Mangos are so plentiful that they don't all get eaten... there are giant mango trees with hundreds of perfect, delicious mangos just lying around on the ground, untaken. 

Just 5 km down the road, in another beach town called Mazunte, is a center where they study turtles, and they have a whole bunch of tanks with turtles that they are rehabilitating. 

I've been hanging out with some great folks - Brita and Manuel, the german couple; Martin, from Montreal; and Elka and Peter, from Amsterdam.  I'm sad to have to go tonight!  It seems like a good night to go, though - there are warnings that a hurricane might be coming in.  (That's pretty darn unusual for the southern coast of Mexico, by the way!)

Ok, I'll try to write some more soon, from San Cristobol!
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theresethib@videotron.ca on Nov 8, 2009 at 04:47PM

Are you an agency? could I make a reservation through you for San Cristobal Hotel in Zipolite

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