My surf instructor had parked his racing-red convertible right where the road meets the sands of Zicatela Beach. Puerto Escondido’s famous pipeline was crashing onto the shore, the product of a gnarly ...

As the evening sun sank into the Pacific, reflecting on the water in shades of orange, pink and indigo, surfboard-carrying silhouettes emerged from the waves, toweling off next to palm trees as they ...

Over the last 20 years, the formerly sleepy Mexican beach town of Puerto Escondido has grown exponentially, and without a proper development plan from municipal governments. Growth really ramped ...