
“We came to get away from all the coronavirus noise in the US. Zipolite sits in the San Pedro Pochutla municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.Īround 20 flights arrive at Oaxaca Xoxocotlan International Airport every day, many loaded with tourists looking for the famous nudist beaches in Zipolite.Īlthough the annual nudist festival got canceled to comply with Mexico’s COVID restrictions, tourists still enjoyed the lovely beaches, open restaurants, and a booming nightlife, something not common in most part of the world today. I feel we really needed to go out,” said George Barrera, a 35-year-old Texan who traveled with his family to Zipolite during the last days of January. Lockdown affected us a lot, and specially my daughter because we live in a small apartment, with no possibilities of going out somewhere. Zipolite, on the Pacific coast, has along with Tulum and Cancun become one of the most popular tourist destinations even though Mexico has now the third highest COVID mortality rate in the world.ĭuring the first days of 2021, Zipolite welcomed thousands of foreign tourists looking to escape strict pandemic measures in their countries. and Canadian tourists flocked to Mexico’s nudist beach of Zipolite to leave something more than their dollars behind.

MEXICO- What to do when winter hits your country and COVID pandemic restrictions forces you to stay home? The right answer should be stay home, but thousands of U.S.
