Bus First Class, Oaxaca Beaches, Huatulco, Zipolite, Mazunte, Puerto Escondido
Update March 2014
OCC Bus from Oaxaca City's first class ADO terminal reaches
Huatulco where nine bays and 33 beaches offer all kinds of lodging
options
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Bus To Oaxaca Pacific Coast Beaches
Oaxaca's
Pacific Coast Beach bus service has not changed much over the years
regardless of the occasional earth tremor and hurricane.
Additions
to the OCC Bus (link) out of Oaxaca City and the Estrella Blanca Bus (link) and
Alta Mar Bus service out of Acapulco to Oaxaca's beach villages, are
the new van services (link) from Oaxaca City that now reach three main towns
on the Pacific Coast where you find beach transportation: Puerto
Escondido, Pochutla, and Huatulco.
From
these towns, a bus, taxi, or colective taxi will reach all the
smaller beach villages.
Bus Oaxaca Beaches From Acapulco
Estrella
Blanca Bus Line runs the Highway 200 bus route with Futura Buses out
of Acapulco (link) to offer first class bus routes along Route 200
between Huatulco, (link) Puerto Escondido, and Acapulco.
Alta
Mar Buses also run bus routes between Acapulco, Puerto
Escondido,
(link)
Pochutla,
and Hualtulco.
For trips south to Chiapas find OCC buses leaving Pochutla for the 12 hour, 440 Peso trip southeast to San Cristobal de las Casas (link) Chiapas.
For trips south to Chiapas find OCC buses leaving Pochutla for the 12 hour, 440 Peso trip southeast to San Cristobal de las Casas (link) Chiapas.
Direct,
first class buses from Oaxaca City (8 hours) and second class buses from Puerto
Escondido and Pochutla serve the beach town furthest southeast on
Oaxaca's Pacific Coast, the resort town of Huatulco. This relatively
new resort area created by the Government in the 1980s was built from
the nine bays and 33 beaches in the area.
The town of Crucicita is the transfer hub for this area, a tidy little place that offers an ADO (link) first class bus terminal, a second class bus terminal, lodging, clubs, restaurants and shopping around the small square a fifteen minute taxi ride from Huatulco's airport. (HUX).
The chapel honoring the Cross Of Huatulco at the
village of Santa Cruz
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The town of Crucicita is the transfer hub for this area, a tidy little place that offers an ADO (link) first class bus terminal, a second class bus terminal, lodging, clubs, restaurants and shopping around the small square a fifteen minute taxi ride from Huatulco's airport. (HUX).
The marina at the village of Santa Cruz |
Several
of the bays of Huatulco are developed much more intensly than
Crucicita, with high-rise resorts, some with protected beaches others
with surfing waves.
In
the winter months, cruise ships visit the harbor of Santa Cruz at the
end of a long bay.
The
harbor's name, Santa Cruz, was inspired by a legend about the discovery
by the first Spanish visitors of a huge, wooden cross standing in
place at the beach, “The Cross of Huatulco.”
The village of Santa Cruz showing the cruise ship dock. |
Other ruin sites such as Monte Alban, (link) near Oaxaca City, and Teotihuacan, (link) near Mexico City are archaeological ruins with splendid museums and monumental buildings and pyramidal structures typical of Mexico’s ancient cities.
OCC Bus leaves from the Oaxaca ADO Bus Terminal and
serves the Pacific Coast towns of Huatulco, Pochutla, and Puerto Escondido. |
Bus
To Huatulco
Reach
Huatulco from Oaxaca City via OCC Buses that leave from the Oaxaca ADO Bus
Terminal with stops in Huatulco, Pochutla, and Puerto Escondido. Sur
Buses run regular service between Pochutla and Puerto Escondido. OCC
buses and Sur Buses run routes from Huatulco, Pochutla, and Puerto
Escondido as they run hourly up and down the bus routes on coastal Route
200, the highway between Huatulco and Puerto Escondido.
See Huatulco (link) for
more details on lodging, golf, beaches, hiring a cab by the hour, and
about the Cross of Huatulco legend.
Transportation
To Oaxaca's Pacific Coast Beaches
Taxis,
Colectivos
Long-haul,
first class buses don't reach all the small beach towns, they are
served by taxi and colectivo. The fare from Pochutla by private taxi
to the beach towns of Puerto Angel and Zipolite, for example, cost
around 100 pesos to reach Zipolite Beach, Colonia Roca Blanca, Puerto Angel and Mazunte.
Group To Save
If
you group with other travelers you can save; the taxis charge by the
trip not by the number of people.
Budget Transfer
Budget Transfer
The
budget alternatives for transportation from Pochutla to the beach
villages are the colectivo taxi and the camioneta. The
colectivo is a shared taxi costing 12 Pesos and leaving from Pochutla. Walk to your right from the bus station about one block and find the collective taxis at a fork in the road. Tewlve Pesos for Puerto Angel.
The
camioneta is a pickup truck with a covered bed that costs ten
pesos per person, a budget ride but an uncomfortable one. The
camioneta are allowed to pick up and drop off anywhere along their
route.
Camioneta, shared transportation |
Reach
the fishing village and beach town of Puerto Angel via taxi,
collective taxi, or camioneta from the town of Pochutla.
The collective taxi is the best option for saving on transit. It runs hourly from just a block northeast of the bus terminal. The collective taxis also pick up at the crossroads of Route 200 and Route 175 but will usually be full before they reach this location.
Cost is 12 Peso to Puerto Angel, the first beach town you passs as you go northwest along the coast road from Pochutla. Puerto Angel offers a beach-side hotel, the Cordelia at 350 peso per night with Air Conditioning, wifi, and a restaurant. Several other hotels are nearby. Snorkel, scuba, and sightseeing boat tours leave from Puerto Angel.
Sightseeing
tours leave from Playa Panteon, a calm water beach where you can swim
and snorkel. In front of the hotel Cordelia, two tour agencies offer
four-hour whale watch, dolphin watch, turtle watch boat tours
with visits to four secluded bays along the coast.
The collective taxi is the best option for saving on transit. It runs hourly from just a block northeast of the bus terminal. The collective taxis also pick up at the crossroads of Route 200 and Route 175 but will usually be full before they reach this location.
Cost is 12 Peso to Puerto Angel, the first beach town you passs as you go northwest along the coast road from Pochutla. Puerto Angel offers a beach-side hotel, the Cordelia at 350 peso per night with Air Conditioning, wifi, and a restaurant. Several other hotels are nearby. Snorkel, scuba, and sightseeing boat tours leave from Puerto Angel.
Taxi,
colectivo, and camioneta from Pochutla reach Zipolite Beach.
Zipolite is a nude-optional beach noted for its sunrises and sunsets located a few miles west of Puerto Angel. Nudism is not legal in Mexico but is allowed on Zipolite Beach.
Budget lodging, beachside posadas, beach camping, surfing, laundromat, and good restaurants such as Piedra del Fuego and “A Nice Place on the Beach” make Zipolite a good visit.
See Zipolite Lodging
Zipolite is a nude-optional beach noted for its sunrises and sunsets located a few miles west of Puerto Angel. Nudism is not legal in Mexico but is allowed on Zipolite Beach.
Budget lodging, beachside posadas, beach camping, surfing, laundromat, and good restaurants such as Piedra del Fuego and “A Nice Place on the Beach” make Zipolite a good visit.
See Zipolite Lodging
Transportation
To Mazunte Beach
A
few miles west of Zipolite, along the coast, is the village of
Mazunte.
There you find beach-side camping, beach restaurants, posada lodging,
and the Turtle Rescue Project.
Reach Mazunte and the other beaches, San Agustinillo, and Ventanillo in the same fashion: taxi, colectivo, or camioneta out of Pochutla or anywhere along the beach road, Route 175.
San
Agustinillo
Reach Mazunte and the other beaches, San Agustinillo, and Ventanillo in the same fashion: taxi, colectivo, or camioneta out of Pochutla or anywhere along the beach road, Route 175.
Mazunte Turtle Rescue Project Museum |
SanAgustinillo is a small beach village on Route 175 just east of
Mazunte. Find a small wave beach and a beach open to the ocean
bordered by inns and restaurants.
Ventanilla offers tours of a crocodile lagoon
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Ventanilla is a tiny community on an open ocean beach where you find tours of a lagoon to view crocodiles in the wild.
Tours of Manialtepec and Chacahua lagoons are offered
in the coastal village of Puerto Escondido
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The
surfing and fishing village of Puerto Escondido is the best known of
Oaxaca beach villages and offers first class bus service from the ADO
terminal on Route 200. The second class bus terminal offers bus
service to Acapulco via Alta Mar and Estrella Blanca Buses..
Related Links
Puerto Escondido Camping
Chacahua Lagoon Tour
Beach dining Puerto Escondido |
Fishing boats on the beach, Puerto Escondido |
Related Links
Puerto Escondido Camping
Chacahua Lagoon Tour
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