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Surfing Oaxaca: Mind Your P's and Q's
Sketchy guides, cartel, private waves, and a world-class point with nobody out.
- Some of the best waves in the Pacific, and one of the most legitimately localized areas anywhere.
- Barra de la Cruz is one of the couple of waves you can go surf on your own. Anything else, you're getting a guide and paying.
- Fly into Huatulco and get a guide, or drive down to Salina Cruz.
- Mind your P's and Q's. You can't just stroll in there.
Surfing in Oaxaca is a whole thing. Between sketchy guides, cartel, and one of the most legitimately localized areas around, to the point of private waves, it's not your average surf trip. But it's also just some of the best waves in the Pacific.
Mind your P's and Q's
You also have to mind your P's and Q's. You can't just stroll in there. There are a couple ways you can go surf, like Barra, but if you want to go surf anything else, you're going to have to fucking get a guide and pay and whatnot.
How to get there
Fly into Huatulco and then get a guide, or drive down to Salina Cruz and just have the best time ever.
Why it's worth it
Some of the waves are just unbelievable. It's honestly some of the best surfing you can get because of how local and localized it is, and how everything's basically private. It's regulated, essentially, down to how many people are in the water.
Look, obviously things will fluctuate here and there, but we surfed a wave with nobody out. That's like world-class, right? Point.
We buy coffee from places we can also go surf. Oaxaca's one of them.
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