Locals say development in this now buzzing Oaxacan town is reshaping their beloved break for the worse—but there’s still time to save it. Welcome to Beach Week, our annual celebration of the best ...

Puerto Escondido, Mexico, is a chill beach town on the Oaxacan coast. It’s rapidly becoming a popular destination for surfers, digital nomads, and other tourists. The bar scene mostly caters to these ...

On Saturday, more than 350 people braved the scorching sand on Playa Zicatela, Puerto’s most (in)famous wave, for the official designation ceremony. The event had speeches from numerous government ...

The sesasons, are chaging acroos the globe, but summer is still a few months. Still, typical summertime surf haunts are stirring to life – like Playa Zicatela, aka Puerto Escondido, aka The Mexican ...

A massive fire has devastated Punta Zicatela, nearby to Puerto Escondido, home of the “Mexican Pipeline” as known to surfers. The inferno broke out in the middle of the night on March 6th, and left a ...

I spent my first hour in Puerto Escondido doing what many had done before me: driving along a snaking two-lane highway in a euphoric delirium. Though I was only a few miles from the center of the ...

When the swell is just right you’ll have A-frames up and down the beach at Playa Zicatela. It can be a very fun, rippable kind of wave. Decades of spot-specific swell info — combined with forecaster ...

Whether you’re looking to spot a turtle or catch a 30-foot wave, surf instructor and owner of Puerto Surf Lessons Celestino Rodriguez sketches out the ideal spot. Highest waves off Zicatela Beach: 30 ...