Mexican Christmas

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Zipolite Christmas


Playa Escondido started filling up with people on Sunday, December 21st. We left the next day and drove about an hour further down the Pacific Coast to Playa Zipolite.


Zipolite was a much smaller beach town. We made arrangements to park our van in the parking lot of San Cristobal Posada and Restaurant. We had a shaded spot with full access to bathrooms and showers for roughly $15.00 per day. This was a nice, clean and welcoming establishment right on the beach and the main road of town.


The water at Zipolite was more calm than at Escondido with waves that broke farther out from the shore and less chance for Leila to drown. We went for walks, did some reading and enjoyed the laidback atmosphere.


For Christmas Eve dinner we shared a lobster dinner; the lobster was bigger than most cats. After dinner we watched the movie “A Christmas Story” in the van.


Christmas morning we checked for Christmas emails and called home from an internet café and talked to our family.


Christmas in Mexico is much more traditional and not so commercialized and “in your face” like back home in the States. Certainly it seemed foreign and sad being in a foreign country and away from family and friends for the holiday. It was interesting to take notice of the differences and similarities. We appreciated the extent to which Christmas is more personal and traditional, but also missed endless Christmas movies on the TV and music on the radio, Santas and Salvation Army Bell Ringers on every corner, and all the decorations and lights absolutely everywhere.


One final Christmas note: In Mexico there are Santa Piñatas; basically the kids get to beat Santa with a stick until he explodes; totally love that!

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Photos

The Vandura
Posada San Cristobal, Zipolite

Christmas Decorations
Posada San Cristobal, Zipolite

Comments

[Lorenzo Colina Montes de Oca]

Muy buen servicio
La atención y el servicio que proporciona la Posada San Cristobal, es muy bueno, su comida exquisita, así como la disponibilidad de habitaciones. Siempre me ha gustado el lugar, por eso me gusta hispedarme ahi, es muy recomendable la atención que brindan sus dueños.