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Zipolite

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I spent two days in Zipolite and Puerto Angel.  Zipolite is famous for it's nude beach but I gotta tell you I was disappointed.  An old fat guy naked walked down the beach one day, but that was it.  I met a lot of regular people though, a couple of Canadians a Swiss and a couple of Italians.  There were hardly any Americans, I guess they were still scared to travel after 9/11.

The hotel I found was pretty good, I think it was the Posada Paradiso.  It was near the end of the street that runs along the beach.  They had a little room off the "lobby" where they let me park the bike and give it a wash.  The room overlooked the beach, comfy, $300 pesos per night.  I found out later that it was one of the highest priced places in town.  The only bad thing was that the maid ripped me off for $400 pesos.  Still, the owners were nice even if they didn't offer to give the money back.

Restaurant on the cliffs at Puerto Angel

View from the restaurant

On the second day I went snorkling in the bay in front of Puerto Angel with this Canadian guy.  Before leaving Cuernavaca, I had picked up one of those disposible water-proof cameras and tried it out in the bay.  The instructions said it was good to about 5m depth.  By that depth it was too dark to get a good shot so you can't expect much.  Later, my buddy showed me this great restaurant up on the cliff over the water, I recommend it!

This is the mascot of the hotel next to mine.  If you like coffee as much as I do, you should stop in.

Typical underwater shot.

Here, I thought I'd show you the shot before enhancing with Photoshop (right) and after (left).

Here's a great web site on the south coast of Mexico with loads of info about the Zipolite area.

Sunset