Mazunte Camping, Budget Lodging on Oaxaca's Pacific Coast
Mazunte is a one-street village but does offer an Internet café,
restaurants, and lodging.  
Mazunte beach is small but offers surfing at times in the cove beside
Punta Cometa.   From Mazunte reach Zipolite for surfing and Playa
Panteon in Puerto Angel for a sheltered cove swimming beach.  Puerto
Angel and Zipolite offer modern hotels at $25-50 USD  a night with
snorkel tours, scuba diving, and sightseeing boat tours leaving from the
beach in front of the hotel in Puerto Angel.

From Zipolite you can catch a camionetta to the crossroads on Route
200 and then a  $20 peso local bus north to Zicatela Beach, home of
the Mexican Pipe-Line in  Puerto Escondido.
(Puerto Escondido also offers cove beaches)
Puerto Escondido is still remote compared to the Mexican Riviera's
Acapulco and Puerto Valarta,
Escondido offers rental equipment, tour attractions, nightclub happy
hours, luxury hotels, and beaches. With lodging from $5 a night up to
$150, every budget can enjoy Puerto Escondido. Breakfast for $4.50:
Pancakes, fruit, and coffee, Dinner: $6.50USD grilled Dorado,
Guacamole, tostadas steamed vegetables.

From Puerto Escondido you can travel north along the coast to
Acapulco.  or south to Salina Cruz and the San Cristobal de las Casas
or Tapachula Chiapas (Beaches)and into Guatemala.  
You'll find bus service efficient and inexpensive, and the lodging
reasonable and readily available  except at Christmas time, New Years,
and Easter vacation.
Mazunte Camping and Budget Lodging on Oaxaca's Pacific Coast can be as simple as
pitching a tent on the beach beneath a straw palapa.
Oaxaca's  Quiet Pacific Coast Beaches offer camping, hammocks, and palm shelters for as
little as 25 peso per night.
Mazunte Beach Lodging:
For independent travelers Mazunte
offers inexpensive accommodations and
great ocean views at the Playa Mazunte
bordered by Punta Cometa, just to the
right or northeast as you face the turtle
museum. Centro Mexicano de la
Tortuga, or Mexican Turtle Center.

Mazunte and Oaxaca's other Pacific Coast
beaches are rarely crowded except during the
November surfing competitions at Puerto
Escondido and again at Christmas/ New
Years, and Easter.  Beaches such as Mazunte
only become busy during Christmas and Easter.
From Mazunte you can cab or collectivo to
San Augustinillo, Zipolite, or Puerto Angel.  
Mazunte offers Eco touring and the
Mexican Turtle Center museum, aquarium,  
and rescue project.
Mazunte is a small beach
community in Oaxaca State
forty miles south of  Puerto
Escondido and four miles
northwest of Zipolite Beach.   
Mazunte offers budget
lodging for a few surfers and
independent travelers with
tent space on the beach.
Lodging is budget variety
including a hammock
beneath a palm palapa or
tenting on the beach beneath
a palm shelter.  Lodging
prices can go as low as 25
pesos to 45 pesos per
person per night.  Cabanas
and rooms rent for $15 -$20
a night  USD and are plentiful
except during Christmas and
Easter holidays.  
Pitch a tent or rent a
hammock right on the beach
with a restaurant, bar, walk 50
yards from your tent to the
Pacific surf.
Get to Mazunte by OCC bus
or local bus from Puerto
Escondido on highway 200 to
Pochutla and then collectivo,
(collective cab or camionetta,
a small pickup truck with a
covered top)  to Zipolite.  If
you arrive via the local bus  
from Puerto Escondido,  ask
the bus driver to stop at the
crossroads for
Zipolite/Mazunte and then get
a collective camionetta to
Mazunte or Zipolite.
be reached by air from
Oaxaca's airport (OAX) to
Puerto Escondido and then
by OCC first Class bus or
local bus along the coast
road, route 200, to
Pochutla, and from there a
short taxi ride or collective
taxi called a camionetta.
First Class Bus service
leaves the first class terminal
in Oaxaca City for Huatulco
and then Pochutla. (10 hours)
Second Class bus service
leaves Oaxaca City's Second
Class terminal and goes over
the mountains to Puerto
Escondido or to Pochutla.  (8
hours)
Van service makes a run to
Pochutla. (6 hours)
The mountain driving can be
tough on those prone to
motion sickness, medicine is
recommended.
Transportation to Mazunte
Getting There
Acapulco:

Three Different Bus Routes reach the area of Puerto Escondido, Mazunte, and
Huatulco on Oaxaca's Pacific Coast.

ADO, First Class service via OCC Buses reach Pochutla via Juchitan, Salina Cruz
and Huatulco.  The route then goes Northwest along the coast to Pochutla
(Mazunte/Zipolite stop) and then to Puerto Escondido
Second Class buses run over Route 175 and Route 135, making more direct runs over
the mountains to Pochutla and Puerto Escondido
Juchitan and Salina Cruz are also first class transportation hubs for trips to San
Cristobal de las Casas and Palenque (Chiapas State)
Estrella Blanca Buses run first Class service, 10 trips daily, from Puerto Escondido
to Acapulco along coastal Route 200.
Local buses run every hour along the coastal route 200 highway connecting
Huatulco, Pochutla and Puerto Escondido.
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Mazunte Lodging can be as simple as pitching a tent at a beach side palapa restaurant.  The one-street
village  does offer an Internet café, restaurants, and lodging.  Across from the church,above,  find the short road
to the beach
Mazunte Lodging on the Oaxaca Pacific Coast near the Turtle Museum and Beach Village can be rustic
tenting on Mazunte beach beneath a palm Palapa.
Mazunte Lodging can be a hotel or posada on the one street village or a tent
beneath a beach side palm shelter.
called Camionetta,  Zipolite to
Mazunte 5 pesos.  Zipolite to the
crossroads at route 200 for Puerto
Escondido, 10 peso.