Comments on: Monday Escape: Zihuatanejo, Mexico https://www.expatify.com/mexico/monday-escape-zihuatanejo-mexico.html Travel & Expat Lifestyle Magazine Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 By: Bryan https://www.expatify.com/mexico/monday-escape-zihuatanejo-mexico.html/comment-page-1#comment-1093 Wed, 06 May 2009 02:22:21 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=554#comment-1093 ZihuaRob,

Thanks so much for the corrections, particularly the clarification about the “main beach” and its distinction from Playa Las Gatas.

Just as a note, the information about the Spanish Conquistadores was ripped from wikipedia’s entry on Zihuatanejo. If you feel it may be inaccurate, it may be useful to propose an edit to that entry.

As another note, we’re jealous of where you get to call home 🙂

]]> By: marina+k.+villatoro https://www.expatify.com/mexico/monday-escape-zihuatanejo-mexico.html/comment-page-1#comment-1092 Tue, 05 May 2009 18:06:25 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=554#comment-1092 I spent over a week here. And it was a weird place!!!!! Everyone was either totally stoned, or naked. Tons of nudists. Plus, there were even a few mid-operation tran-sexuals. I also remember going for dinner. And we had it worked out. We would order our meal, and then go and shower and do whatever else, because to get a plate of pasta took well over an hour to cook. Who knows, maybe their water boils much slower than it does in the rest of the world.
With that said, it was gorgeous, but I was still functioning a bit on NY time and couldn’t adjust to the slowness.

]]> By: ZihuaRob https://www.expatify.com/mexico/monday-escape-zihuatanejo-mexico.html/comment-page-1#comment-1091 Tue, 05 May 2009 15:53:18 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=554#comment-1091 Just to clarify a couple of errors in your article.

First, the “main beach” in Zihuatanejo is not Playa Las Gatas, which has the protective reef of boulders that may have been built by a Tarascan leader from the Pátzcuaro region of Michoacán. Playa Las Gatas is a lovely little beach, but most folks here consider Playa La Ropa to be the best beach within Zihuatanejo Bay. However the main beach is called La Playa Principal (which means “the main beach”).

And I’ve lived here over 20 years and done my fair share of paying attention to local legend and lore, but I’ve never heard that Spanish Conquistadores believed the region to be inhabited by “Amazon women, gold and precious gems”. To the contrary, what was then called Cihuatlán by locals had its name changed to Zihuatanejo by the Spaniards who added the suffix “-ejo” to denote the unimportance of the region.

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